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Whether you are male or female, if you are losing hair or feel as if your hair is thinning then there is a good chance that you have considered using hair growth products to see if there is a good way for you too rectify your hair loss. Of course like any other problem in life that you want to resolve, when you first look at it there seems to be an abundance of solutions out there showing you how you can prevent hair loss, and we’ll look at a few of them here

The ones that are really heavily advertised are the ones where there is a lot of money to be made by cosmetic surgery in the form of transplants or by the pharmaceutical companies in the forms of drugs. We will look at these options in turn.

Prescription medication on the other hand is more accessible, but again there is a downside to this too as some of the medication out there is specifically designed to combat DHT which is caused by too much testosterone and is quite often the cause of hair loss. Because this medication is combating testosterone, there are occasions when it can also effect a man ability to perform sexually too.

Saw Palmetto – Saw Palmetto has many good properties including helping against prostrate cancer, but it is really coming to light that it helps to fight baldness. Why this is no-one is 100% certain but it is believed that it blocks an enzyme which turns testosterone into DHT

Nettles – Another natural ingredient for combating thinning hair is nettle root extract. Nettle is high in many beneficial properties including vitamins A & C but its main strengths in fighting hair loss is that it again can help excess testosterone and DHT.

The Final 2 products which you should be able to get from any good grocery store or supermarket are Rosemary and Sage. Basically you can use these along with some nettles to make a lotion to wash your hair with and the benefits of this is that it cleans the scalp and stimulates and thickens the hair root all in one go for you.