Archive for July, 2010

Does Bad Hair Mean Bad Health? Can you tell something about your health from your hair?  Perhaps you can.  Some conditions and medications affect your body as well as your hair.  In other cases, you may just need to take better care of your hair or scalp.  See some interesting facts below (with thanks to Web MD) Dandruff is not a Health Risk and you can’t catch it! Dandruff isn’t contagious.  So how does it start?  Doctors really aren’t sure, but one theory is that it may be due to an overgrowth of a yeast like fungus.  Other possible triggers include skin that’s either too dry or too oily, shampooing either too often or not often enough, and having eczema… read more

Recently there has been a lot of excitement in the hair transplant and hair loss treatment world regarding Platelet Rich Plasma or PRP. By injecting Platelet rich plasma (PRP) you would be using a component of the body’s own blood to heal itself.   This technique was first used to assist in wound healing.   A number of hair transplant surgeons and dermatologists have been using PRP to assist in the regrowth of thinning hair and also transplanted hair after the operation. What are Platelets? Platelets are tiny cells found in your blood and are responsible for clotting of blood and the healing process after a person cuts their skin.   Put simply, PRP is a highly concentrated suspension of platelets in plasma. … read more

Further to our earlier article on Stem Cell Research into Hair loss which you can find on http://www.prohairbiosystems.com/blog/science/stem-cell-research-into-hair-loss/ This is a follow on article, which gives more detail. It has been revealed that Scientists have identified stem cells or master cells in the hair follicles of mice. They discovered that the stem cells develop into hair follicles and produce hair when they are transplanted into skin. George Cotsarelis, Assistant Professor of dermatology from the University of Pennsylvania, said that the study could lead to new ways of treating hair loss in humans using drugs, surgery or both. “This may lead to a new type of tissue engineering for treating baldness – for example, isolating hair follicle stem cells from the… read more

Welcome to our new hair loss blog. We’ve got all our existing content across from our old location. Please have a look around. We’re are looking forward to providing you with regular updates here.

It is interesting that hair loss primarily affects the top of the head and the hair around the sides nearly always remains in a horseshoe shape. The resistance of this remaining hair to the effects of DHT is one of the bases of hair transplants, where this hair is transplanted from the side of the head to the top of the head where it grows. There have been great developments in hair transplants since the early days, when patients’ hair looked like it was growing in clumps like you would find on top of a doll’s head. Now individual hairs are transplanted with a much more natural effect.

Nizoral shampoo has an active ingredient of Ketonazole. It was originally marketed back in the 1980′s as an anti dandruff shampoo, and was very effective since it acted as an antifungal and was effective against the yeast which caused dandruff which is a bug called Pityrosporum ovale. So far so good. However, ketonazole had previously been available in tablet form for treatment of fungal infections and a well known and well documented side effect of the tablets was testicular atrophy. Put bluntly your testes stop working properly and in extreme cases get smaller and stop producing testosterone at all. The reason that ketonazole produces testicular atrophy is the same reason that some people find it also helps their hair loss…. read more

Grey hair is caused by a reduction of pigmentation, whereas white hair has no pigment all. Why this happens remains somewhat of a mystery. In time, everyone’s hair turns grey eventually and your chances of going grey increases by 10-20% every decade after 30 years. Fundamentally, hair is white. It then gets its natural colour from a pigment called melanin. The formation of melanin begins before birth and is also responsible for your skin colour and tanning in the sun. The natural colour of your hair depends upon the distribution, type and amount of melanin in the middle layer of the hair shaft or cortex. Hair has only two types of pigments: dark (eumelanin) and light (phaeomelanin). They blend together… read more

Retaining Hair Health began as a hair loss blog in 2009 and is read by visitors from all over the world, particularly in America. So we decided to run our very own “The X Factor ” Poll of Blogs. We are pleased to announce that the Top Ten of Popular Entries are as follows:- No.1 Nizoral (Ketonazole) Shampoo No.2 Finasteride (Propecia or Proscar) Cancer Warning No. 3 The Norwood Scale for Hair Loss No. 4 Hair Loss Product Advertisement on London Underground No. 5 Early Signs of Hair Loss No. 6 Stem Cell Research into Hair Loss No. 7 James Bond and Indiana Jones No. 8 Does your Hair Actually Breathe? No. 9 James Nesbitt’s New Hair No. 10 Genetics… read more