DHT is also the hormone that may kill off hair follicles and can lead to male-pattern baldness. I suggested to my caller that saw palmetto might help slow his hair loss. Hair loss is genetically influenced but hard to predict. Sometimes all the men in a family go bald, and sometimes only a few do. But more than half of American men suffer significant hair loss by age 45.
Many women also suffer hair loss, but it's almost always much less severe.
While I can't promise that my herbal approaches will cover your dome with a thick mat of hair , these natural alternatives might be worth a try. Biochemistry supports saw palmetto . If it turns out that saw palmetto helps prevent hair loss, it would be the herb for men, since studies have shown that it also helps prevent prostate enlargement. You could prepare a baldness-prevention shampoo by adding licorice to your favorite shampoo when you shower. For centuries, if not millennia, both men and women have massaged their scalps with rosemary in olive oil to keep their hair lush and healthy.