These results have been achieved by using a 15% solution of both Vitastim and Biostim twice a day since October last year.
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Researchers have discovered a new gene related to hair loss that might facilitate therapy for many concerned.
As reported by the science journal Nature and quoted by Science Daily, they found out that the gene APCDD1 is often responsible for so-called male pattern baldness and other forms of hair loss, a hereditary process beginning during childhood. Officially termed hair follicle miniaturisation, this process causes thick, dark hair to be replaced by much finer hair.
The good news? In the same study, the teams from Stanford and Columbia University found a connection between mice and men, or more specifically in their hair growth: APCDD1 apparently inhibits something called the Wnt signaling pathway, which has been addressed by researchers before to influence hair growth in mice but was believed to be unrelated to humans.
“These findings suggest that manipulating the Wnt pathway may have an effect on hair follicle growth – for the first time, in humans,” Angela M. Christiano, Ph.D., professor of dermatology and genetics & development at the Columbia University Medical Center, said. “And unlike commonly available treatments for hair loss that involve blocking hormonal pathways, treatments involving the Wnt pathway would be non-hormonal, which may enable many more people suffering from hair loss to receive such therapies.”
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Kat started treatment with us at The Hair Centre in February 2009. She has been using a combination of 15% Vitastim and 15% Biostim treatments both morning and evening, in conjunction with a booster treatment three times a week for the whole 12 months. Here are her results so far:
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APRIL 2009 OCTOBER 2009
APRIL 2010 [ 12 MONTHS LATER ]
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Early regrowth established in as little as 2 months.
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The cause of hair loss in androgentic alopecia is a chemical called dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, which is made from androgens (male hormones that all men and women produce) by the action of an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase.
People with a lot of this enzyme make more DHT, which in excess can cause the hair follicles to make thinner and thinner hair, until eventually they pack up completely.
Women’s pattern of hair loss is different to the typical receding hairline and crown loss in men. Instead, androgenetic alopecia causes a general thinning of women’s hair, with loss predominantly over the top and sides of the head.
Another important cause of hair loss in women is a condition called alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that affects more than two per cent of the population. In this, the hair follicles are attacked by white blood cells. The follicles then become very small and hair production slows down dramatically, so there may be no visible hair growth for months and years.
After some time, hair may regrow as before, come back in patchy areas, or not regrow at all. The good news is that in every case the hair follicles remain alive and can be switched on again; the bad news is that we don’t yet know how to do this.
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