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The news spread like lightning across the Internet… In Japanese clinical trials, a safe, natural polyphenol compound from apples was proven to promote new hair growth in men with male pattern baldness. In the first double-blind clinical study, 29 balding men were treated with the apple procyanidin solution. After 6 months, researchers reported that [...]
Brewer’s Yeast and Hair I’ve been taking brewer’s yeast for a long time, probably because of some article on nutrition I read in a bodybuilding magazine many years ago. Perhaps I attribute too many beneficial properties to this natural product, but in this article I’ll try to be moderate and just give the facts. First [...]
The Anti-inflammatory Diet Inflammation causes many of the problems associated with bad hair and bad skin . Most of this inflammation is subclinical – the kind that can be seen only with a microscope. In this article I’m going to make many suggestions about what foods and supplements reduce the possibility of cellular, tissue, and [...]
The food supplement alternative Some nutritionists claim that certain vitamins, mostly of the B complex, like biotin, folic acid, pantothenic acid, and PABA; and some minerals like zinc, iron, sulfur, silica, and copper will have a beneficial effect on the hair. But when these nutritionists are pressed they will usually concede that these vitamins and [...]
DHT: the Full Story On the discussion forum of this site, people post many messages about DHT and ask how they can lower this derivative (metabolite) of testosterone at least in scalp tissue. These people attribute negative qualities to this hormone, the main one being the miniaturization or even the destruction of hair follicles. In [...]
Learning to control the scalp muscles My approach to baldness would be straightforward if the scalp muscles at the back of the head were easy to control. They are not. These muscles, the occipitalis muscles, are voluntary but people usually have lost control of them. When they are not used they get small, almost to [...]
The Core Idea The core idea for my approach to halting hair loss and promoting the growth of new healthy hair is what I call the scalp exercise. The basic exercise is accomplished by the alternating contraction of the frontalis and occipitalis muscles. The frontalis muscles are at the front of the head; the occipitalis [...]
The radical approach to hair loss Another option for men who are going bald is hair transplant surgery. The results of this procedure are much better than they were ten or fifteen years ago. At that time the frontal hairline would often look unnatural after a transplant – like rows of corn. Now the frontal [...]
Rogaine and Propecia Rogaine (minoxidil) and Propecia (finasteride) are two drugs approved of by the FDA for the treatment hair loss. Both of these drugs were originally developed for use in the treatment of serious illnesses: minoxidil for high blood pressure; finasteride for benign prostate enlargement (BPH). Rogaine is a topical solution sprayed or massaged [...]
Men’s hair loss is a serious concern among many men, as sporting the “bald look” just not is on their to-do list. There are a few causes of hair loss, and similarly there are a few treatments as such. While in some cases avoiding losing hair is impossible, there are some cases where it can [...]