2008
Hair Restoration Today - What Is Hot And What Is Not?
Hereditary hair loss is one of the most common genetic conditions affecting about 40% of the male population and almost 25% of women. Men have being searching for a cure for baldness since the dawn of time but it was only relatively recently that our chances of managing hair loss successfully have become real. Hair science has made big advances in the past 25 years, leading to the discovery of several drugs, giving us more control over the balding process. Gone are the days of the pluggy grafts of the 1980s. With the latest advances in follicular unit transplantation and, more recently, with the arrival of follicular unit extraction techniques, hair transplants can give you a completely natural look. A combination of the existing medicinal and surgical therapies enables treatment options unheard of only a decade ago.
2006
Coffee to cure baldness
German medics arrived at the conclusion that consumption of large caffeine doses prevents baldness. Male’s hormone testosterone is responsible for baldness in men, meaning that the more testosterone a man as, the more prone he is to losing his hair. Head of the research team Professor Peter Elsner states that hormonal boldness could in fact be pre
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