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

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

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

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 tablet was testicular atrophy. Put bluntly your testes stop working properly and in extreme cases they actually get smaller and stop producing testosterone. The reason that ketonazole produces testicular atrophy is the same reason that some people find it also helps with their hair… read more