Hi everyone and welcome back to the hair loss show my name is dr vikram jayaprakash and in today’s episode we’re going to talk about caffeine and how it can be used to treat hair loss so stick around. australia’s leading hair restoration surgeons discuss issues relating to hair loss and hi everyone and so let’s talk
About caffeine for hair loss now caffeine can be used and i’ve seen a lot of people post questions well how is caffeine used and how does it treat hair loss it can be used in a couple of different ways first of all caffeine can be an additive for other medications so you can when you get a medication specifically
Compounded like finasteride or minoxidil you can is that it promotes penetration of the medication into the through the scalp into the uh and allows medication to pass through the barrier a lot more effectively also we know that caffeine acts as a vasodilator so it improves blood flow to the area and we think also
Going back that’s probably another mechanism by which it uh stimulates hair growth by increasing blood flow to the area kind of in a similar sort of way that minoxidil works as well so caffeine will also have a stimulatory effect uh on the on the hair follicle as well now another way that uh caffeine also uh is reported
To work is that it potentially blocks dht and so we know that being a genetic condition it also the increase in causes miniaturization of the hair so by blocking the actually blocking the dht which works differently to finasteride which doesn’t block dht the level of dht caffeine directly blocks dht and
So um we’ll hope the theory being that it can help prevent hair loss that way now it’s not it’s naturally existing we drink coffee every day and and drinking coffee orally there’s no evidence to suggest that that has any uh direct application topical application of caffeine has been uh shown to be helpful and
I think there’s very little downside so i’d be happy with that so hope you found that sort of brief summary useful on caffeine for hair loss thanks again for watching please remember to see you again on the next episode take care
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The Role of Caffeine in Hair Loss By The Hair Loss Show
