It is a condition that brings despair to millions of men.
But now there is a potential cure for those suffering from hair loss - which takes its cue from the farmyard.
Male pattern baldness could be stopped in its tracks or even reversed by the treatment, which involves patients being injected with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) taken from their own blood.
And the injections will also contain ACell - a powder extracted from pigs' bladders.
This week, 20 British men will be given the 30-minute treatment, the Daily Express reported.
Dr Raghu Reddy, a Harley Street clinician at the The Private Clinic, will perform the treatment with the help of Dr Gary Hitzig, who developed it in the U.S.
Dr Reddy said: 'It is as close as we have come to a cure for male baldness.
'This revolutionary injectable combination of ACell and PRP may be the answer to restoring hair growth for those in the early to moderate stages of hair loss.
But now there is a potential cure for those suffering from hair loss - which takes its cue from the farmyard.
Male pattern baldness could be stopped in its tracks or even reversed by the treatment, which involves patients being injected with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) taken from their own blood.
And the injections will also contain ACell - a powder extracted from pigs' bladders.Cure? Male pattern baldness affects millions of men including comedian Harry Hill and Foreign Secretary William Hague
Dr Raghu Reddy, a Harley Street clinician at the The Private Clinic, will perform the treatment with the help of Dr Gary Hitzig, who developed it in the U.S.
Dr Reddy said: 'It is as close as we have come to a cure for male baldness.
'This revolutionary injectable combination of ACell and PRP may be the answer to restoring hair growth for those in the early to moderate stages of hair loss.
