The treatment of pattern hair loss has evolved from the use of materials that obviously don't work to those that barely

work to those that have scientific evidence that they actually work very well.  Of late, 21st Century methodology 

allows for the investigation, testing and deployment of new substances as well as known substances used in new ways.

Carnitine is a known substance that is finding new application in the treatment of hair loss.  Here's why.  The scalp hair 

follicle happens to be one of the most robust and rapidly proliferating systems in the human body.  A growth rate in 

excess of 1/2 inch per month is not uncommon.  To sustain healthy growth, an intricate orchestration of biochemical

signals must work flawlessly.  On a sub-cellular level, the engine that drives the energy transport part of the equation is the

mitochondrion.  The disruption of hair follicle homeostatis can be triggered by numerous events, the most typical 

being the onset and progression of pattern hair loss.  For many years it has been understood that the androgen steroid

hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT) played a critical role in the deregulation of hair follicle homeostasis.  Less well appreciated

 is the role that pathologic inflammation plays in the same chain of events.