t’s the holy grail of hair loss – a pill or potion that will restore thinning hair and reverse baldness. Which explains why an industry worth $1.5billion worldwide has sprung up, offering anxious men (and women) hair loss treatments from herbal remedies to shampoos and supplements.
According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), male pattern baldness affects 30pc of men under 30, and around 80pc of men over 70.
“The hair loss industry has a huge and captive audience and is only too willing to take your money,” says hair loss expert Spencer Stevenson, who has spent over £40,000 on hair transplants and hair loss treatments in the last twenty years.