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PROPECIA and Avodart for Hair Loss Prevention

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A thousand years before the birth of Christ, men were desperately searching for the cure to an age-old problem. No, it was not polio, tuberculosis or a parasitic disease. Believe it or not, it was baldness. Yes, the ancient Egyptians and later the Persians were the first people to actively seek a cure for alopecia.

During the time of Hippocrates (as in the Hippocratic Oath), the prescription for hair loss consisted of nettles, cumin, pigeon excrement, horseradish and beetroots. This strange list of ingredients was rumoured to regrow hair. Of course, all of the patients remained glabrous, just like Hippocrates himself.

More than two millennia later, modern science has finally presented us with something akin to a cure. No, it will not end baldness in our time, but it is probably the most effective medication in the history of pharmacology. The drugs that we are speaking of are Propecia and Avodart .

The generic names of these drugs are Finasteride and Dutasteride. As you may have guessed from the similar sounding names, these medications are close cousins. In fact, both of them were developed to combat prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate). But when patients reported increased hair growth during the clinical trials, both drugs were repackaged and resold as modern day cures for baldness.

Of course, PROPECIA has been around for about a decade longer, and it is currently the only prescription medication to receive the approval of the FDA. To date, Avodart has only been approved as a medication to combat prostatic hyperplasia, not male pattern baldness. But since the drugs are so similar, chemically speaking, it will likely not be long before Avodart is offered to balding men and women all over the world.