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Effects of
Ginseng Rhizome and Ginsenoside Ro on Testosterone 5α-Reductase and Hair
Re-growth in Testosterone-treated Mice - Phytother Res. 2011 May 2 -
"Extracts of red ginseng rhizome showed greater
dose-dependent inhibitory effects against testosterone 5α-reductase (5αR) when
compared with extracts of the main root. Ginsenoside Ro, the predominant
ginsenoside in the rhizome, and ginsenoside Rg(3) , a unique ginsenoside in red
ginseng, showed inhibitory activity against 5αR with IC(50) values of 259.4 and
86.1 µm, respectively. The rhizome of P. japonicus, which contains larger
amounts of ginsenoside Ro, also inhibited 5αR. Topical administration of
extracts of red ginseng rhizomes (2 mg/mouse) and ginsenoside Ro (0.2 mg/mouse)
to shaved skin inhibited hair re-growth suppression after shaving in the
testosterone-treated C57BL/6 mice. These results suggest that red ginseng
rhizomes containing both oleanane- and dammarane-type ginsenosides are a
promising raw material for cosmetic use. This is the first report that
ginsenoside Ro enhances in vivo hair re-growth based on their inhibitory
activity against 5αR in the androgenetic alopecia model" - See
ginseng products at iHerb.
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Treating Hair Loss Naturally - WebMD -
"Daly says he routinely recommends
up to 3 mg of biotin daily for his hair loss patients, while Lessman
developed a healthy hair, skin, and nails product containing 2 mg of biotin
per daily dosage, which he believes is the minimum for healthy hair"
- Nizoral Shampoo for Hair Loss
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DermaDoctor.com - "They found that Nizoral increased hair thickness and decreased hair shedding, whereas the zinc pyrithione shampoo had the opposite effect" - See
Nizoral Shampoo at drugstore.com
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Can Lasers Zap Baldness? One Woman Thinks So - CBS Chicago, 2/11/11 -
See NEW iGrow Laser Hair Rejuventation System for Home Use - Physician Supported
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Click here for the press release.
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Hair loss in
long-term or home parenteral nutrition: are micronutrient deficiencies to blame?
- Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2010 Sep 4 - "A serum ferritin level of 70
mug/l should be targeted when hair loss is unexplained" - See Slow Fe Slow Release Iron Tablets 90-Count Box
at Amazon.com.
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Snack Size Science: Vitamin E and the quest for thick hair - Nutra USA,
5/5/09 - "The experiments used Carotech’s Tocomin
SupraBio ingredient, which contains vitamin E in its tocotrienol forms.
Vitamin E comes in eight forms, including four types of tocopherols, and
four types of tocotrienols ... According to the company, the Malaysian
researchers observed significant hair re-growth of about 42 per cent in the
tocotrienol group, with eight volunteers experiencing greater than 50 per
cent hair growth. No one in the placebo group experienced any hair growth
benefits"
- See
Jarrow FamilE (contains all eight members of the vitamin E family) at iHerb.
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Vitamin E may reverse male pattern baldness: Study - Nutra USA, 4/28/09
- "Volunteers were randomly assigned to the palm
tocotrienol complex (total tocotrienol intake of 100 mg) or the placebo
(soft gelatin capsule containing 600 mg soy bean oil) ... Hair counts,
measured by the counting the number of hairs in a pre-selected 2x2 cm area,
were found to significantly increase by an average of 41.8 per cent in the
tocotrienol group, with eight volunteers experiencing greater than 50 per
cent hair growth ... There are eight forms of vitamin E: four tocopherols
(alpha, beta, gamma, delta) and four tocotrienols (alpha, beta, gamma,
delta). Alpha-tocopherol is the main source found in supplements ... While
the majority of research on vitamin E has focused on alpha-Toc, studies into
tocotrienols account for less than one per cent of all research into vitamin
E" - See
Jarrow FamilE (contains all eight members of the vitamin E family) at iHerb.
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An Herbal Solution to Baldness? - Dr. Weil, 4/24/08
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Effect of Dietary
Supplementation With INVERSION(R) Femme on Slimming, Hair Loss, and Skin and
Nail Parameters in Women - Adv Ther. 2007 Sep-Oct;24(5):1154-71 -
"Weight reduction and slimming were measured after
INVERSION Femme was taken for 28 and 58 d. All women showed significant
reductions in weight, body fat, and thigh circumference. During the second
month of treatment, subjects showed an average 50% reduction in hair loss"
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Low Iron Could Help Spur Baldness - HealthDay, 5/31/06 -
"Iron deficiency is the world's most
common nutritional deficiency ... If iron deficiency is detected and treated
in the early stages, patients may be able to grow hair more effectively"
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Hair Loss? It May
Be Iron Deficiency - WebMD, 5/17/06 -
"whatever the cause of hair loss --
for both women and men -- having too little iron in the blood makes it
worse"
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Flax lignans: a cure for hair loss? - Nutra USA, 5/9/05 -
"Ten male sufferers of androgenetic
alopecia aged between 20- and 70- years received a 50mg daily dose of SDG in
the form of one 250 mg capsule of Acatris’ LinumLife Extra ... eight of the
participants reported a modest improvement in their hair loss condition, one
reported a great improvement and one reported no effect at all" - See
iHerb
or
Vitacost
flax products.
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Omega-3 fatty acids might curb hair loss - azcentral.com, 4/12/05
- Reversing Hair Loss? - Dr. Weil, 6/22/04 -
"you may be able to prevent further loss and encourage re-growth by including omega-3 fatty acids to your diet"
- Soy: Prevent Prostate Cancer, Male Baldness? - WebMD, 3/30/04 -
"A little-known molecule called equol
... is showing promise as a powerful blocker of a potent male hormone involved in prostate cancer, male baldness, even acne ... Actually, the protective effects occur when two chemicals in soy protein -- genistin and daidzin -- reach the digestive system, Setchell explains. There, they are metabolized to form genistein and daidzein. Daidzein is metabolized once again, to form equol" - See
iHerb
or
Vitacost
isoflavone products.
- Laser Comb [Hairmax] May Stimulate Hair Growth - thesandiegochannel.com, 5/8/03 -
""In our clinical trials in Canada, (the comb) does both," said Dr. Martin
Unger, plastic surgeon. "We are getting over 97 percent -- sorry, 95 percent -- of the people who are using this are either stopping their hair loss or regrowing hair, and over 75 percent of the patients regrew hair to a significant amount." ... The Hairmax laser comb costs about $700." - See HairMax at drugstore.com
 or
Amazon.com.
- Laser Comb May Stimulate Hair Growth - NBCSandiego.com, 5/8/03
- Can I Stop My Hair from Thinning? - Dr. Weil, 9/13/02 -
"Make sure you’re getting enough omega-3 fatty acids ... supplement your diet with
GLA (gamma-linolenic acid) in the form of black currant oil or evening primrose oil"
- Natural Treatment for Male Pattern Baldness - New Hope Natural Media, 7/3/02 -
"Those with male pattern baldness may increase hair growth by taking a preparation containing
saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) and beta-sitosterol ... Conventional
medicines used to treat male pattern baldness are designed to block the conversion of testosterone to DHT. Topical application of minoxidil
(Rogaine®) and taking oral finasteride (Propecia®) have been shown to inhibit this conversion and to increase hair growth, but both medications have been linked with several adverse side effects, including fast heart rate, headaches, impotence, and decreased libido ... 400 mg of a standardized extract of saw
palmetto and 100 mg of beta-sitosterol per day ... After about five months, hair growth in 60% of the men taking the herbal combination had improved compared with their initial evaluation. In contrast, only 11% of those receiving the placebo improved"
- Nutritional factors and hair loss - Clinical & Experimental Dermatology, 7/02 -
"serum
ferritin concentrations were a
factor in female hair loss ... The role of the essential amino acid, l-lysine in hair loss also appears to be important. Double-blind data confirmed the findings of an open study in women with increased hair shedding, where a significant proportion responded to l-lysine and iron therapy"
- See
iHerb and
Vitacost
l-lysine products.
- Monthly Updates - Hair Loss Research, 10/01 -
"While finasteride (Propecia/Proscar) decreases serum DHT, it also is thought to increase estrogen which suggests
that men over 35 may want to consider using it in conjunction with a systemic aromatase inhibitor such as Chrysin/Piperine
(Super Miraforte), Arimidex,
or stinging nettle extract, to maximize its hair growth effects and minimize potential side effects (that are listed in the PDR) such as
Gynocaemastia (breast enlargement in males), sexual side effects, and an increase in fat deposition. These compounds have been reliably shown to increase testosterone and reduce excess estrogen, resulting
in a youthful hormone profile that optimizes immune function and to some degree, body composition"
- Antiaging Products for Skin, Hair and Nails - Nutrition Science News, 10/00 -
"A lack of silicon is known to reduce normal growth and repair of the skin, hair and nails.
However, studies show that silicon supplementation has delivered few benefits. The reason for this in most cases is that a nonbioavailable silicon source has been used. Silicon is a nonmetallic element that is very reactive. It occurs naturally almost exclusively in silicates, the geologic rock-forming minerals.
Although silicates are the most abundant materials on earth, they don't provide a bioavailable form of dietary silicon. Moreover, silica, often used as a dietary supplement, is a polymeric silicon-hydroxide-oxide-water complex from hard stone, such as quartz, that has anywhere from two to trillions of silicon atoms,
and is also very poorly bioavailable. On the other hand, orthosilicic acid, which consists of only one Si bonded to four hydroxides instead of oxygen, is the form of Si that is found in our bloodstream. Therefore, stabilized orthosilic acid is the only form of supplemental silicon that
has been shown conclusively to be bioavailable for humans. Silicates, silica gel, colloidal silica, clays, horsetail (Equisetum arvense) and most foods don't contain the orthosilicic acid form of silicon."
- Hair Graying and Loss - Nutrition Science News, 10/00 -
"Japanese researchers found that topical application of procyanidin-B2 from
grape seed and apple extracts activate hair follicles in mice, resulting in increased hair growth. Furthermore, Italian researchers found that a topical preparation containing esculin (an oxolinic acid) from horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) reduced hair loss and increased circulation to the hair follicles
in men and women suffering from hair loss.3 Reduced scalp microcirculation is also one of the factors causing hair loss."
- Essential Oils Can Help Regrow Hair - Nutrition Science News, 9/00
- Proanthocyanidin Power - Nutrition Science News, 6/00 -
"Japanese researchers shaved mice and found that 40 percent of their hair grew back naturally. When a 1 percent
solution of any of three
proanthocyanidins was applied to the skin, however, between 70 and 80 percent of the hair grew back. Test tube studies confirm that OPCs actually stimulate the hair keratinocytes to produce three times more hair than the controls."
- Hair Loss- MinSaw-A, Nizoral and Dercos- The bald truth! - By Phil Micans PharmB -
"the addition of retinolic acid (the active ingredient in the famous anti-wrinkle skin cream-
Retin-A), helps to further stimulate the blood supply on the scalp surface and therefore to the hair follicle"
CME:
General Information:
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Hair loss - American Academy of Family Physicians
- Hair loss - emedicine.com
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Hair Loss - familydoctor.org
- Hair Loss - Intelihealth
- Hair Loss
 - DermaDoctor.com
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
 -
DermaDoctor.com
- Frequently Asked Questions - Hair Loss - Medscape
- Hair Loss and Insulin - DrMirkin.com, 3/22/00
- Treatments for hair loss
 - Medifocus.com
Other News:
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Latisse
for your dome? Drug thickens thin hair - MSNBC, 11/14/11 -
"The appeal of using Latisse for hair loss is its ease
and convenience, as it seems to only require one drop to the affected area once
a day ... The major drawback: It's expensive. Each 2-ounce bottle costs $100 to
$150 — and some patients will run through two or three bottles a month"
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Regrowing hair: Researchers may have accidentally discovered a solution -
Science Daily, 2/16/11 - "a short-duration treatment
with this compound causes an astounding long-term hair regrowth in chronically
stressed mutant mice ... the researchers had been using mice that were
genetically altered to overproduce a stress hormone called
corticotrophin-releasing factor, or CRF. As these mice age, they lose hair and
eventually become bald on their backs, making them visually distinct from their
unaltered counterparts. The Salk Institute researchers had developed the
chemical compound, a peptide called astressin-B, and described its ability to
block the action of CRF. Stenzel-Poore had created an animal model of chronic
stress by altering the mice to overproduce CRF ... researchers injected the
astressin-B into the bald mice to observe how its CRF-blocking ability affected
gastrointestinal tract function. The initial single injection had no effect, so
the investigators continued the injections over five days to give the peptide a
better chance of blocking the CRF receptors. They measured the inhibitory
effects of this regimen on the stress-induced response in the colons of the mice
and placed the animals back in their cages with their hairy counterparts ...
About three months later, the investigators returned to these mice to conduct
further gastrointestinal studies and found they couldn't distinguish them from
their unaltered brethren. They had regrown hair on their previously bald backs"
- Note: To the best of my knowledge there's nothing non-experimental on
the market, either conventional or alternative, that inhibits CRF. If
there were people would be taking it to reduce cortisol.
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Drugs
for hair loss and benign prostatic hyperplasia may result in loss of libido,
erectile dysfunction in men - Science Daily, 1/11/11 -
"5a-reductase inhibitors (5a-RIs), while improving
urinary symptoms in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and
possible hair loss prevention, produces significant adverse effects in some
individuals including loss of libido, erectile dysfunction (ED), ejaculatory
dysfunction and potential depression" - Note: That goes back and
forth. One study claimed that finasteride improved sex after after six
months of taking it. Regarding gynaecomastia, if you're taking low dose
letrozole to increase testosterone and to prevent aromatization it many also
help prevent gynaecomastia.
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Prostate Drug May Not Dim Sex - WebMD, 6/26/07 - "Six months after the men started taking their assigned drugs, the survey
scores were about three points higher for the men taking Proscar. By the end
of the study, that gap narrowed to about two points"
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Prostate Drug Doesn't Limit Sexual Function In Most Men - Science Daily,
7/19/07 - "The study suggests that finasteride will
cause little or no sexual dysfunction for most men who decide to take it"
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Ask a Medical Question - Can letrozole cure gynecomastia - JustAnswer -
"Letrozole may be effective in preventing and
reversing the gynaecomastia provided it is used early enough in steroid
induced gynaecomastia" - See letrozole at
OffshoreRX.com.
I believe the recommended dose is something like a quarter tablet every
three days but don't quote me on it. That's what I take.
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Types of Hair Loss
and Treatment Options, Including Low-Level Light Therapy - Medscape, 10/7/10
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Finasteride
Treatment of Hair Loss in Women (June) - Ann Pharmacother. 2010 May 4
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Dermatologists Can Help Women Win the Fight Against Common Forms of Hair Loss
- Science Daily, 3/6/10
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Shining a Light on 9 Hair Loss
Treatments - ABC News, 7/8/09
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Scientists Inch Closer to Figuring Out How Hair Grows - WebMD, 7/31/08
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Quick Test May Help Spot Male Hair Loss - WebMD, 6/16/08
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Getting
To The Roots Of Hair Loss - Science Daily, 2/24/08
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Asian
Men Who Smoke May Have Increased Risk For Hair Loss - Science Daily,
11/19/07
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Treatment Found To Reverse Hair Loss - Science Daily, 6/11/07 -
"one of each pair of twins was given 0.5
mg/day of the medication, the other receiving a placebo ... After both 6 and
12-month intervals, hair loss was found to not only have been halted in twins
using dutasteride, but hair growth was actively improved"
- Note: Dutasteride is Avodart®.
See dutasteride at OffshoreRX.com
 .
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New
Hair Follicles Created For The First Time, Mouse Study - Science Daily,
5/16/07
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Grasping at strands for baldness remedies - USA Today, 3/18/07 -
"So where does the laser comb fit
in? Leavitt points to the six-month study reviewed by the FDA that shows men
who used the comb grew an average of 19 more "terminal" (thick, rather than
thin) hairs per square centimeter than those who used sham devices. That's a
"medically significant" amount, he says, though the average healthy scalp
has 160 to 260 hairs per square centimeter" - See the HairMax at
drugstore.com
or
Amazon.com.
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Drug May Fight Women's Hair Loss, Too - WebMD, 3/20/06 -
"Propecia, a drug used to treat male
hair loss, may help fix women's hair loss when taken with birth control
pills"
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Unbalanced Diets May Lead To Hair Loss - CBS Chicago, 10/13/05
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Tips for
Preventing, Fixing Female Hair Loss - ABC News, 10/11/05
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Scientists May Have Exposed Cure For Baldness - CBS 2 Chicago, 9/27/05
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Health: Hope
Sprouts Eternal - Newsweek, 2/9/05
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Hair Cloning Nears Reality as Baldness Cure - WebMD, 11/4/04
- Hair Follicle Diseases Leading to Hair Loss: Scarring Alopecias - Medscape, 11/2/04
- Stem Cells Renew Hope For Fading Hair Follicles - Science Daily, 9/7/04
- Special Skin Cells May Grow New Hair, Skin - WebMD, 9/2/04
- What is hair cloning? - Guardian Unlimited, 7/1/04
- Hair Replacement: The Next Generation - WebMD, 6/22/04
- Stem Cells Can Re-grow Hair - WebMD, 3/15/04
- Hair Today... - Time, 10/20/03
- Hair Loss: Telling the Bald Truth - Newsweek, 6/16/03
- Chemical Triggers Hair Growth in Mice, May Help Human Hair Loss - WebMD, 5/14/03
- Ultraviolet Light Linked to Androgenic Alopecia - Doctor's Guide, 11/29/02
- Growth Rate Of Hair Affected By Transplantation Site - Doctor's Guide, 10/7/02
- Hormones Influence Efficacy Of Treatment For Women's Alopecia - Doctor's Guide, 7/12/02
- Finasteride Cuts Risk of Further Visible Hair Loss in Men - Doctor's Guide, 7/1/02
- Arthritis Drug Helps Grow Hair - WebMD, 5/13/02
- Baldness Induced By Dopamine Treatments May Be Reversible - Doctor's Guide, 3/11/02
- Surgery, Drugs -- Options Abound for Hair Loss - WebMD, 3/11/02
- Minoxidil Finds Novel Indication In Hair Loss Prevention Following Rhytidectomy - Doctor's Guide, 2/24/01
- Propecia (Finasteride) Demonstrates Reduced Hair Loss/Increased Hair Growth in Male Pattern Hair Loss - Doctor's Guide, 11/19/01
- Hair Loss In Emotional Stress Triggered By Corticotrophin Releasing Receptors - Doctor's Guide, 10/26/01
- Long-Term Treatment With Propecia (Finasteride) Effective In Preventing Male Pattern Baldness - Doctor's Guide, 3/15/01
- Cancer Research Leads To Possible Baldness Cure - In Mice - Intelihealth, 2/16/01 -
"The VEGF-enhanced mice regrew hair quicker, and, better yet, researchers found that their
hair follicles - the structures at the roots of hairs - were 30 percent wider. . . "By overall volume, the hair was about 70 percent thicker" than in the normal mice, Detmar said, adding, "To my knowledge, no one has been able to make hair thicker" previously."
- Younger Bald Men More Likely to Be Insulin Resistant - WebMD, 10/2/00
- Study Links Baldness, Heart Problem - Intelihealth, 1/24/00
- Hair loss: How effective are the newest treatments? - CNN, 1/6/00
- Propecia Increases Hair Weight And Quality, Improves Scalp Coverage - Doctor's Guide, 9/29/99
- Hope for restoring lost hair - CNN, 6/11/99
- Hair Loss and Thyroid Disease - About.com, 6/10/99 -
"In a recent study, Dr Hugh Rushton, a professor at
Portsmouth University, also found that 90 percent of women with thinning hair were deficient in iron and the amino acid lysine"
- Results Of New Study Confirm Propecia Works Only In Men - Doctor's Guide, 5/4/98
- FDA Clears Propecia For Treatment Of Hair Loss In Men - Doctor's Guide, 12/22/97
- FDA Committee Recommends Rogaine Extra Strength for OTC Sales - Doctor's Guide, 7/16/97
- Propecia Shows Hair Regrowth, With Few Side Effects - Doctor's Guide, 6/17/97
- Oral Treatment for Male Pattern Hair Loss Shows Promise - Doctor's Guide, 3/23/97
Abstracts:
- Production rates of testosterone and of dihydrotestosterone in female pattern hair loss - Metabolism. 2003 Jul;52(7):927-929
- A randomized clinical trial of 5% topical minoxidil versus 2% topical minoxidil and placebo in the treatment of androgenetic alopecia in men - Journal of the American Academy of
Dermatology, 9/02 - "In men with AGA, 5% topical minoxidil was clearly superior to 2% topical minoxidil and placebo in increasing hair regrowth, and the magnitude of its effect was marked (45% more hair regrowth than 2% topical minoxidil at week 48)." - See
5% minoxidil at drugstore.com
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