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What Can I Do to Stimulate My Hair Growth?

Changing your diet can help stimulate hair growth. Hair loss can be a debilitating experience for both men and women at any age. And, while understanding the reason you have hair loss is important, it’s equally important to find solutions or products to help stimulate hair growth. Here are some tips to help you achieve more hair growth. Nutrition and Diet A healthy... Continue Reading

Is There a Hair Loss Remedy That Really Works?

There are many options when considering a hair loss remedy. No doubt you’ve seen ads and displays touting the benefits of various pills, liquids, and procedures that promise to be the ultimate hair loss remedy to regrow hair. Some treatments can be effective, but results vary and are not always guaranteed. Rogaine, (minoxidil) was the first hair growth drug approved by the FDA. Now it’s... Continue Reading

What Is Follicular Unit Extraction?

Follicular unit extraction helps those suffering hair loss regain a full head of hair. It is known as the “Gold Standard” of hair restoration. Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), also called follicular transfer (FT), is one of two primary methods of obtaining follicular units, naturally occurring groups of one to four hairs, for hair transplantation. The other method is called strip harvesting. Strip harvesting involves surgically removing a section of... Continue Reading

Say Good-bye to Balding with Safe, Medical Hair Restoration

Medical hair restoration can be an option for many suffering from hair loss. Why spend the best years of your life feeling less than your best? That’s what balding can do to you if you let it. Lack of self-esteem, unremarkable social life, and even career roadblocks –things you’d like to change – so why not take steps to change? There is a medical hair restoration procedure that... Continue Reading

Is There a Cure for Baldness?

Not everyone chooses to be bald or balding. Define ‘Cure’. A cure is … a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy. a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease. successful remedial treatment; restoration to health. a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental Two conditions (and there are others) that cause baldness are 1) when levels of the androgen Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) are too high, such as with AGA androgenic alopecia androgenic alopecia or, 2) when the immune system is mistakenly compelled to attack the follicle, such as... Continue Reading

Is Hair Restoration Worth the Investment?

Is hair restoration worth the money? We think it's an investment in your sense of self-worth. When it comes to making the decision to invest in hair restoration, there are more important considerations than cost. For instance, how hair loss or balding affects you emotionally, socially and career-wise may be more important to you than the cost. While hair restoration is, indeed, a monetary investment, it is equally, an investment in... Continue Reading

Hair Loss in Women Due to Hormonal Imbalances

Hair loss in women can be caused by many things, including hormonal imbalance. Hair loss is surprisingly common in women, affecting more than 30 million in the U.S., according to the American Academy of Dermatology. It can start as early as puberty or much later in life. In fact, 38 percent of women 70 and older, experience hair loss, partly because hair thickness decreases with age, especially after menopause. Hair loss... Continue Reading

Hair Loss Due to Illness or Surgery

Hair loss due to illness or surgery is more common than you might think. Thinning or loss of hair after an illness or surgery is not uncommon. But all too often patients are not told in advance of the possibility of hair loss. And, because shedding begins two to three months following the illness or procedure, the association can be overlooked altogether. It’s called telogen effluvium and it’s the... Continue Reading

Hair Loss and Gene Therapy: Can You Afford to Wait?

Hair loss gene therapy can be one option for fighting alopecia. What Causes Hair Loss? For years, androgenetic alopecia, commonly called male or female pattern baldness, was thought to be caused by the predominance of the male sex hormone, testosterone, which women also have in trace amounts under normal conditions. While testosterone is at the core of the balding process, Dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a derivative of the... Continue Reading