Male-pattern baldness is the most common type of hair loss, affecting 6.5 million men in the UK. It generally starts with a little thinning of the hair, followed by wider hair loss, allowing more of the scalp to become visible. For a few men, this process starts as early as the late teens. By the age of 60, most men have some degree of hair loss. Some men aren’t troubled by this at all. Others, however, suffer great emotional distress associated with a lack of self-esteem, and in some cases depression. “Young men especially feel hair loss pretty acutely,” says Dr Susan McDonald-Hull, a consultant dermatologist at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Male-pattern baldness is usually inherited and also affects… read more

We obviously wish England every success for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. One of the greatest football players we have on our team is Wayne Rooney and in 1966 when we last won the World Cup we had Bobby Charlton…….see the link? In 1966 Bobby Charlton and the team won a heroic victory over West Germany to take the World Cup back to Blighty. This turned Bobby (and Jackie) Charlton into a worldwide legend for the next 40 years! Everyone wanted Bobby Charlton on their TV programmes or as a match pundit or anywhere in front of the camera. The fact that Bobby had very little hair never detracted from the success of this great sportsman. People saw… read more

At Pro Hair Biosystems we work with a number of advisors and one f our advisors is a TV/movie hair and makeup artist based in New York regarding hair loss and balding. We are open minded to new ideas at Pro Hair Biosystems and our colleague has offered the following advice which we have included below and would be interested in learning of anyone’s experience of scalp massage in terms of successfully stimulating hair growth. Medical science believes that once a hair root is incapable of producing a hair follicle it effectively dies and cannot again produce a viable hair shaft. However these findings contradict this and claim that instead of actually dying, the hair root becomes completely dormant due… 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

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

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

There is a lot of jargon around regarding hair loss and one of the descriptions people use to describe their hair loss if referring to the Norwood scale of hairloss which is often abbreviated to NW1 etc. The correct terms for normal hair loss (and hair loss in men is pretty normal) is androgenic alopecia. The scale goes from Norwood 1 to Norwood 7. Norwood 7 is what we are all trying to avoid and involves a total hair loss from the top of the head with only the hair around the sides remaining. NWI. This is where hairloss has just begun and is not really noticeable NW2. This is just where there is a very small amount of hair… read more

So how would you know if you are losing your hair? Basically you look for changes in your hair. The very earliest signs of hair loss is often that your hair looking less lively and duller than previously, despite using good quality shampoo and conditioner. It just seems a little bit lifeless. The next signs you might typically see is the early stages of actual hair loss, which is an increased number of hairs around the bath each time you wash your hair. Everyone loses some hair each time they wash their hair, but people who are beginning to go bald, see a definite increase. The exact signs of hair loss and thinning hair vary from person to person, but… read more