Archive for October, 2010

(With thanks to Pharmacist “Didapper” writing in the Pharmaceutical Journal) Bald Facts about Treating Glabrescence As I child I learned that some men will try anything to combat baldness.  When my father found an amusing old remedy for baldness and sent it to the letters page of a national newspaper, our postman was soon delivering dozens of letters from desperate people wanting to know where to obtain badger grease. Since that early experience I have retained an interest in baldness remedies despite also keeping a full head of hair. It seems that men have always worried about hair loss and been willing to try bizarre remedies.  These have often involved animal dung or urine.  For instance Hippocrates treated his patients… read more

Silver Fox Salt and pepper, silver, pewter, charcoal.  Whatever you call it, grey hair happens to all of us at some point. But why do some people go grey in their 20s, while others don’t see the first sign of silver until age 50? And if you’re going grey early, what should you do about it? What’s ‘Premature’ Hair goes grey when color-producing cells stop producing pigment, says Jeffrey Benabio, MD, a dermatologist at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego. Naturally occurring hydrogen peroxide can also build up in the hair, bleaching the color. Typically, white people start going grey in their mid-30s, Asians in their late 30s, and black people in their mid-40s. Half of all people have a significant… read more

Can your ethnicity or race really affect your hair loss? It is well documented that Inuits (Eskimos) and Native American Indians suffer from very little hair loss.  Generally speaking Asian and African men also suffer a lot less from hair loss than Caucasian people. An an interesting aside, a disproportionate number of sales of ProFusion are made to people of Asian origin.  This may not mean that Asian people have more or less hair loss, but probably indicates a greater desire to be proactive. What is also interesting is that Japanese men suffer from a low level of hair loss, however this has been increasing in recent years. Theories abound as to why this should be, but the obvious theory,… read more

There is little doubt that the technique of hair transplantation has improved immensely over the past 10 years, and the original dolls hair look, often unkindly referred to as plugs are less common than they used to be.  Like all science, hair transplantation has advanced and will continue to get better. We obviously hope that using ProFusion or your own choice of hair loss prevention will delay the need to consider a hair transplant and also that ProFusion will be useful in retaining the original hair you have post-transplant. In this article we would like explain three techniques for hair transplantation. The Strip Method of Transplantation The Strip technique involves removing the hair follicles to be transplanted as one group… read more

Pro Hair Biosystems announces the launch of their innovative “Wall Space” scheme so Salons can make money from their empty wall space. By displaying an advertisement, salons earn income from every sale.  With no stockholding and no financial outlay. The system works in a similar way to Google Adwords, except it is the salon which is in the driving seat.  Each advertisement features a url for the Pro Hair Biosystems website where clients can buy ProFusion product with a discount code.  When the client goes onto the website and enters the discount code, the salon is identified and earns a commission on every sale made.  Salons also earn commission from all future sales. To make sure that clients remember the… read more

In an earlier blog we mentioned the Framingham Health Study in America, which surprisingly showed a link between hair loss and cardiovascular disease, please see:-  Heart Disease and Hair Loss. A further large study began in 1982 and took place over 11 years and the results obtained confirmed the clinicalobservation that men who lose their hair are at a greater risk of having a heart attack.  Further studies were later carried out which all led to the same conclusion, that hair loss is linked to cardiovascular risk and elevated levels of cholesterol. These are still links without the scientific causes being proven, nevertheless when the argument is deconstructed it begins to make sense.  The reason it makes sense is simple,… read more

At Pro Hair Biosystems we are aware that ProFusion shampoo is only one product in the fight against hair loss and there are a number others.  Far from promoting ProFusion in isolation we recommend our customers to use ProFusion in combination with other hair loss products such as minoxidil and finasteride. However tablets and topical applications are not the only weapon against hair loss as a couple of years ago, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration of America) approved a lazer comb device for use against hair loss.  This is quite interesting since a number of hair loss centres and trichologists had been using lazer therapy to stimulate hair loss for a while, but these were only used in a… read more