Why Isn’t Nitric Oxide Viewed as a Hair Loss Treatment?

Minoxidil is a vasodilator and is topical. Nitric oxide (Arginine-alpha ketaglutarate) is a vasodilator and oral.

I am having a hard time understanding why Minoxidil can grow hair (although I don’t know if it’s the same kind of hair and not just small hairs) while nitric oxide and massage typically aren’t viewed as hair loss treatments right now? You said before that Minoxidil probably works in that it prolongs one of the hair phases, but if they’re both nitric oxide based, what makes Minoxidil so different?

Minoxidil has hair growth as a side effect of the drug and I believe that it has nothing to do with its vasodilating properties. Minoxidil’s reason for growing hair is still not entirely clear.

My role on this blog is to explain what is known in research and clinical medicine, but the use of nitric oxide is not known as a hair loss treatment and to my knowledge has not been scientifically studied. You can sponsor it if you wish, but the drug companies that do this work are apparently not paying for the research.