Health experts agree that you need to eat a well-balanced diet to support the health of your hair. This diet includes 13 essential vitamins. They are vitamins A, D, E, K, C, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotic, vitamin B-6, B-12, and folate. In this article, you will learn about the benefits of some of […]
Because hair loss and baldness is generally perceived as a condition relegated to the male sex, it can be particularly devastating when it happens to women. Many women begin to see hair loss or thinning by the time they reach their fourth decade of life. These changes are due to a whole host […]
We have hair over almost all of our bodies, but we tend to care most about the hair on our heads because it is an important aspect of body image. Scalp hair can reflect our health, personality, age, and many other aspects of who we are. Here are some interesting facts about what we sometimes […]
Depending on the techniques you use to style your hair, you may be causing damage to your hair in the long term. Noticing breakage and hair loss can be the first signs that your techniques need some fine tuning. If not addressed, some of the poor hair-styling techniques could leave you with permanent hair loss. […]
A scientific explanation of the development of human hair gives the viewer an understanding of hair structure. Explaining the genetic reason for baldness, the video further goes into male and female baldness and hair transplantation. Hormonal influence on hair loss is demonstrated with colorful graphics to clarify viewer education. Basing the video on one adult […]
The latest technology in regards to treatment of baldness is the ability to create a hair follicle from a person’s DNA sequence. Researchers in Tokyo are claiming that they have actually done this. To establish the hair follicles worked like the real thing, they engaged a largely recycled hair uproot method called follicle unit transplantation. […]
This article is about new treatments, and information regarding hair loss. Androgenetic alopecia is a disease in which the hormone DHT causes hair follicles to become smaller, and eventually go away for good. Since discovering DHT in the early 1990s, scientists have focused on studying it’s affects on hair follicles. DHT research has caused advances […]
Premature hair loss can be a stressful and embarrassing experience. Age, gender, genetics, and illnesses all have an influence on hair loss, but the good news is that there are many ways to prevent hair loss without the need for expensive drugs or procedures. Below are some of the tips and techniques for naturally slowing […]
A research team of investigators from Stanford, Columbia, and Rockefeller Universities, may have found the gene that causes hereditary hypertrichosis simplex. A dominant form of hair loss, presenting in childhood, manifests in terminal hair that is thick which is slowly replaced by more fine hair. The gene that the researchers discovered is called APCDD1 (adenomatosis […]
Often times the simple inadequacies of the human race lead to breakthroughs in many professional fields. The medical industry is no stranger to this and in the 1930’s a Japanese surgeon discovered that if he were to transplant a patients’ skin with the hair follicles still attached to another part of the body the hair […]
