When New York Magazine, barometer of trendiness, publishes the long interview of a dermatologist, one suspects the hair-raising fact of society. And in fact, the interview with this doctor from a large Boston hospital completes an article published in August by The New York Times, which unveiled a new miracle cure for baldness. Millions of bald people have since found hope and camped out in their doctors’ waiting rooms when they learned that a long-known medicine, minoxidil, already present in aerosols like Rogaine, could effectively ensure the regrowth of bald spots. hair, if administered daily in small doses orally. In short, it would be the end of the greasy sprays that added to the infamy of bald heads. In addition, minoxidil, a generic molecule used against hypertension, is sold at a derisory price when it is produced in the form of tablets.
In the 1980s, doctors discovered by chance the capillary virtues of this drug by seeing certain patients who took it to reduce their blood pressure slowly regaining a hair. But the side effects, mainly cardiac, prohibited generalizing its prescription to treat baldness. In small doses, the problem is solved. According to the interviewee, no one yet knows exactly why minoxidil has such an effect on the hair. Finally, it is worth remembering that this does not work for everyone. The balls to zero, the shiny skulls of the longtime bald will not know