Archive for March, 2010

Spironolactone was originally marketed by Searle as a Aldactone as a potassium sparing diuretic, that is it makes you pass more urine but doesn’t deplete your body of potassium. Diuretics are used to control blood pressure among other uses. The use of Spironolactone as a hair loss treatment is a fairly new phenomenum. It has a powerful antiandrogenic effect, in simple terms it works to reduce the male hormone testosterone by decreasing production and also blocking the effect of androgens at a cellular level. Spironolactone is a competitive inhibitor of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) receptor binding. The drug competes with testosterone for the androgen receptors on each cell so less testosterone can bind to it. It has also been suggested that the… read more

Your height is a very important part of your overall makeup and is often the first thing that people notice. Average height for a man is probably around 5′ 8″ or 5′ 9″ with most men aiming to reach the magic 6 feet tall. I managed 5′ 11″ so just fell a little ‘short’ of target. What has this got to do with hair loss and baldness? When you are involved in this industry you become aware of certain factors associated with hair loss beyond the usual links with genetics and heredity. One of the observations that I have made recently, I would like to test via this blog because I have a theory that a greater proportion of very… read more

This article is a synopsis of an original feature on http://www.webmd.com and full credit is given to Web MD who own the copyright on this article. We have included this article because we are also interested in female hair loss and would like to begin a trial with ProFusion for women with hair loss. If you would like to be part of this trial please contact us on support@prohairbiosystems.com or via our website http://www.prohairbiosystems.com An interview with Mary Gail Mercurio, MD.By Charlene LainoWebMD Feature Many women with hair loss suffer in silence, altering their hairstyle to hide thinning or patches. But the sooner you seek care, the better the chances of successfully treating it, says Mary Gail Mercurio, MD, associate… read more

Some good news for a change. This article is taken from the www.bbc.co.uk website and full credit is given to them for the content: Baldness ‘could be good for your health’ say scientists Baldness is a result of high levels of the male hormone testosterone. A receding hairline can be a good thing, according to US scientists, who say men who go bald by 30 appear to be less likely to develop prostate cancer. Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine studied 2,000 men aged between 40 and 47. They were able to link high levels of the male hormone testosterone in those who lose their hair earlier with a lower risk of tumours. The findings are published… read more

Writing in the journal Nature, scientists have shown that adult mice were able to grow new hair follicles. This discovery has allowed scientists to look at hair loss differently and this lays down the foundations for a potential new type of hair loss treatment being developed. This is not recent news, but nevertheless does form a very good basis of an interesting blog. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania made the discovery when they were looking at wound healing in mice. What they found was that as a wound heals, new hair follicles began to form underneath the newly formed skin which in turn allowed new hair follicles to grow. When the University researched the reasons for this they found… read more

This is more a thread than a blog. We’d like you to share any tips or advice about things which have helped slow your hair loss and also advice about things to avoid which might have accelerated it. An example of this might be drinks or diet. In theory high caffeine drinks such as coke, red bull even tea and coffee should make hair loss worse as it narrows the arteries and potentially reduces the flow of blood to the scalp. Has this been your experience or not? Have high caffeine drinks actually helped your hair loss. The converse is that alcohol should help by increasing blood flow….has that been anyone’s experience (or does the alcohol just make everything seem… read more

Some of the most brilliant studies in medicine do not receive enough credit for their simplicity get ingenuity. An example of this was Dr Richard Doll who discovered, almost by accident that smoking was linked to lung cancer. He thought it was traffic fumes causing the problem and asked the question about whether participants smoked almost as an afterthought. A similar piece of brilliance dates back to 1948, when the Framingham Heart Study embarked on a highly ambitious project by tracking the cardiovascular health (heart and circulation) of a whole town over many, many years. The town was Framingham, Massachusetts not far from Boston and the study continues to this day. Surprisingly one factor they examined was hair loss. Just… read more

Hi All, I’ve been a little quiet of late, mainly due to having elderly parents who are not in good health, so I apologise. What you may also know is that I also contribute to a number of other blogs, obviously only giving my personal opinions, however the subject which comes up time and time again is relationships and how these are affected by hair loss. I have read some young guys making statements like ‘my life is over’ because they have lost a lot of their hair in their teens or 20′s. Let’s be clear, this is cruel when it happens (I began losing mine in my early 30′s) and everyone would rather it didn’t happen…but hey…it happens! People… read more