Did you know that 95% of pat­tern bald­ness for both men and women is caused by hor­mone known as dihy­drotestos­terone? This nasty hor­mone sneaks up on your hair fol­li­cles and silently kills them, and the end result is make and female pat­tern baldness. 

Dihy­drotestos­terone is male hor­mones com­bi­na­tion com­monly found in both men and women of all ages. When an excess of this hor­mone is pro­duced, it can lead directly to the loss of your hair, com­monly known as genetic hair loss or male and female pat­tern baldness. 

This DHT hor­mone sur­round your hair fol­li­cles with ha wax like sub­stance; this will basi­cally starve the fol­li­cles of much needed vit­a­mins and nutri­ents that help them to grow healthy and strong hair. The DHT, causes your hair fol­li­cles to pro­duced thin­ner and thin­ner and more brit­tle hairs until the sim­ply fall out, and new hair are unable to replace them due to dam­ages DHT has done to the fol­li­cle. Leav­ing you with those tell tale unsightly bald patches or more com­mon in women thin­ning across your scalp.

But there is help in the best hair loss solu­tion, these clin­i­cally proven for­mu­la­tions can and do work to stop the loss of your hair and help-grow your own nat­ural and sexy healthy hair. These hair loss reme­dies use the only FDA approved ingre­di­ent on the mar­ket that can be used by both men and women and has been proven to help stop fur­ther hair loss and re-grow hair.

The top­i­cal hair loss solu­tion goes to work ensur­ing your fol­li­cles receive a rich sup­ply of hair friendly clods filled with the vit­a­mins and nutri­ents needed to help those hairs grow to be strong healthy and shiny.

Com­bine this with the oral min­eral and vit­a­min sup­ple­ments,. and you have a win­ning com­bi­na­tion for hair loss re-growth.

The vit­a­min and min­eral sup­ple­ments con­tain all nat­ural ingre­di­ents and herbs with pow­er­ful DHT block­ing abil­i­ties, thus ensur­ing your hair has the very vest chances to defeat the silent killer dihy­drotestos­terone.

Hair Growth and Nutri­tion Con­trary to pop­u­lar opin­ion the major­ity of the hair is already dead. Noth­ing we apply to our hair will make out hair any health­ier. Nour­ish­ment and per­ma­nent changes to our health must be made from within. This is impor­tant so that the roots, the only live part of the hair can be nourished.

Most peo­ple are aware that many vit­a­mins, espe­cially B vit­a­mins and vit­a­min E have been long rec­om­mended as a cure or method or main­tain­ing healthy skin, hair and nails. There is more than a lit­tle truth to this rec­om­men­da­tion. The human body relies on nutri­ents and vit­a­mins for the pro­duc­tion of many chem­i­cals and amino avoids within the body relies on nutri­ents and vit­a­mins for the pro­duc­tion of many chem­i­cals and amino acids within the body to reg­u­late and per­form nor­mal bod­ily func­tions. One of these mil­lions of func­tions is the reg­u­la­tion of hair growth. Stud­ies have shown that indi­vid­u­als who main­tain a poorly bal­anced diet or tend to go on crash diets will tend to have less healthy skin, hair and nails. Indi­vid­u­als suf­fer­ing from anorexia very com­monly exhibit loss of hair and other skin and nail issues.

There are a num­ber of vit­a­min and nutri­ents the body absolutely must have in order to stim­u­late the growth of healthy hair. Remem­ber, we have already estab­lished that healthy hair must be frown from within. To that end, the body must have ade­quate sup­plies essen­tial and non-essential nutri­ents. While non-essential may sound as thought is not as nec­es­sary, this term sim­ply means that the body is capa­ble of pro­duc­ing it on its own. indi­vid­u­als who have med­ical con­di­tion that pre­vent the body from pro­duc­ing or stor­ing non-essential nutri­ents will need to sup­ple­ment their diets in order to get amounts.

At a min­i­mum, the body needs the fol­low­ing vit­a­mins and nutri­ents to act as a cat­a­lyst for other pro­duc­tions within the body includ­ing the nec­es­sary  growth and main­tained of healthy hair:  

Vit­a­min A

Vit­a­min B

Vit­a­min E

Cop­per

Iodine

Hair Trans­plant Methods

Hair restora­tion tech­nol­ogy is con­tin­u­ously pro­vid­ing patients with bet­ter options for hair loss treat­ments. Trans­plants have come a long way since the 70’s and 80’s, when hair plugs were used to treat hair loss. These hair plugs con­sisted of grafts with about 15 to 25 hairs in each. These plugs gave the hair trans­plant a very unnat­ural and obvi­ous look.

Goals of a Hair Trans­plant

There are many goals that a Hair trans­plant pro­ce­dure can achieve, the most impor­tant goals are:

A nat­ural look­ing hair trans­plant that is unde­tectable as pos­si­ble.
That the high­est per­cent of the trans­planted hair sur­vive and grow.
That today’s hair trans­plant will appear as accept­able over time.
That the trans­plant will be con­ser­v­a­tive while being performed.

Strip Inci­sions were tra­di­tion­ally used to trans­plant hair before more mod­ern meth­ods existed. The strip inci­sion involves sur­gi­cally remov­ing strips of skin from the donor area, extract­ing the hair fol­li­cles, and then implant­ing them on the recip­i­ent area. While some sur­geons are prac­tic­ing more mod­ern tech­niques in hair trans­plan­ta­tion, this method of surgery is still effec­tive and quite common.

The strip inci­sion method has now been improved upon by micro graft­ing. Sur­geons are switch­ing to this method because it doesn’t involve mak­ing any type of inci­sion (scalpel-free). Hair fol­li­cles are extracted from the donor area using the micro graft­ing pro­ce­dure and trans­planted into the recip­i­ent area with ease.

The Strip Exci­sion Procedure

1. The sur­geon and the patient col­lab­o­rate on a hair­line design.
2. The donor area is pre­pared for the inci­sion by trim­ming a nar­row piece of hair.
3. The top and the back of the scalp are given a local anes­thetic.
4. The sur­geon uses a sharp blade to remove strips of hair-bearing skin from the donor area.
5. The hair trans­plant sur­geon stitches the donor area back together.
6. The excised skin is dis­sected into indi­vid­ual hair fol­li­cles.
7. The sur­geon inserts the hair fol­li­cles into the scalp using one of the fol­low­ing tech­niques: the punch method, the slit method,   and the laser method.

Dr. Kahen’s Technique

It is now pos­si­ble to have an aes­thet­i­cally natural-looking hair­line. Patients are ask­ing for the Fol­lic­u­lar Unit Graft­ing tech­nique. The increase in this new method of hair restora­tion has sparked and entire gen­er­a­tion of bald­ing men and some women to have a nat­ural appear­ing hair trans­plant. Patient also wants a nat­ural hair­line that is some­what irreg­u­lar. Today’s fol­lic­u­lar hair trans­plants tend to be denser that in the past. Aided by pow­er­ful micro­scopes and bet­ter sur­gi­cal instru­men­ta­tion, Dr. Kahen is able to cre­ate remark­ably nat­ural results for patients. The best hair restora­tion sur­geon also pos­sess the skills needed to design the micro-elements of the hair­line, at the trans­plant recip­i­ent site level. This is where size of the site, angu­la­tions, ori­en­ta­tion and spac­ing all come into play. These sur­gi­cal and aes­thetic skills ulti­mately deter­mine how the hair will grow into out­stand­ing, newly re-created hairlines.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the cost of hair trans­plant or any ques­tions and or con­cerns, please con­tact Dr. John Kahen, M.D.

Hair fol­li­cle infec­tion is one pos­si­bil­ity of the under­ly­ing cause of your hair loss. It might feel inflamed and filled up by pus. Another name of the hair fol­li­cle infec­tion is fol­li­culi­tis. You might see it as a pim­ple (on your face), but it’s occurred on your scalp. Fol­li­culi­tis could occur on your legs, scalp, beard or maybe but­tock. There’s a group of bac­te­ria named Staphy­lo­coc­cus aureus or Pseudomonas aerug­i­nosa that cause the infec­tion within scalp area. Or in other cases, fun­gal and yeast could also cause the infec­tions. The infec­tion could also be caused when your clothes are too tight, or maybe exces­sive sweat­ing. It might get very painful if left untreated and foli­culi­tis Increases.

Hair Fol­li­cle Infec­tion Treatment

You don’t need any med­ical treat­ment if your hair fol­li­cle prob­lem is not very bad. How­ever, if the infec­tion is bad and painful, you have to visit a doc­tor. He will give you antibi­otic creams to be applied into the infected area. The infec­tion could recur again and again; if this is the case your physi­cian will pre­scribe antibi­otic tablets to kill the bac­terium that is caus­ing the infection.

Estro­gen is present in cer­tain plants and herbal reme­dies such as ‘dong quai’, ‘ash­wa­ganda’ or a milder vari­ety of ‘dami­ana’ are all sug­gested plant-based estro­gens. If you are con­cerned about an under active thy­roid dur­ing menopause, then you may need iodine-rich veg­gies to boost your sys­tem. Though it may not sound appe­tiz­ing kelp could do the trick to nudge your thy­roid back into shape. If the hor­mone you’re look­ing to block is DHT (dihy­drotestos­terone) then try ‘saw pal­metto’ to help deter it from form­ing in the first place.

If you need a lit­tle bal­ance in your diet, and this is the cause of your hair loss, it’s time to increase your intake of essen­tial fatty acids to aid your mem­branes back to health. Essen­tial fatty acids can be con­sumed in the form of fish oils, which are very com­mon, flaxseed oil is as well a nat­ural sup­ple­ment to main­tain rich, healthy hair.

The fact is, if you are start­ing to lose your hair then the ear­lier you start to deal with the prob­lem the longer you will be able to keep your hair. Like most other med­ical con­di­tions, if you treat the under­ly­ing prob­lem early it is much eas­ier, and much cheaper, than if you wait till it gets out of hand. As soon as you start to see extra hairs lay­ing on your pil­low in the morn­ing, or a clump in the shower drain, you need to have a plan to buy a hair loss treat­ment and start using it.

Of course, the big ques­tion then is which prod­uct or prod­ucts should you buy. Before you can answer that ques­tion you need to under­stand what is the under­ly­ing cause of your hair loss in the first place. Over 9 out of 10 men who expe­ri­ence early hair loss do so because of a hered­i­tary med­ical con­di­tion called Andro­genic Alope­cia. The com­mon name for this is Male Pat­tern Bald­ness. This name comes from the fact that men will tend to lose their hair in one of two pat­tern areas. Either they see thin­ning on the crown of the head which is the top, or they will have a reced­ing hair line above the fore­head. If left untreated these two areas will migrate toward each other and even­tu­ally combine.

The cause of this thin­ning is what you actu­ally need your hair loss rem­edy to treat. Within your body there are many hor­mones and hor­monal sub­stances. They actu­ally are the mes­sen­gers which keep your sys­tems oper­at­ing prop­erly. One of these, the male hor­mone testos­terone has many func­tions, but for our pur­poses we are inter­ested in what hap­pens when it is metab­o­lized by the enzyme 5-alpha reduc­tase. When this hap­pens a new sub­stance is formed called Dihy­drotestos­terone. This is actu­ally the metabo­lite which is respon­si­ble for male pat­tern bald­ness. Many hair replace­ment prod­ucts focus on the scalp and the health of the hair shaft, because this is eas­ier to do, and they neglect the real cause which is DHT. Any prod­uct you choose must deal with what causes hair loss at the root.

There are two meth­ods of slow­ing or stop­ping the affect of DHT. The first is to block the pro­duc­tion of it. The FDA has approved an oral med­ica­tion, Finas­teride, which seems to work well but it has many neg­a­tive side effects. These include loss of libido, sex drive, in men and poten­tial birth defects for preg­nant women. Because of this many peo­ple shy away from this drug. Two nat­ural alter­na­tives are Saw Pal­metto extract and Stingy Net­tle Root. Both of these also seem to limit the amount of DHT produced.

The sec­ond way of deal­ing with the prob­lem is to pro­tect the hair fol­li­cles, (hair roots) from attack in the first place. Another FDA approved drug, Minox­i­dil, does a good job of this by bond­ing with the recep­tors on the hair roots that the dihy­drotestos­terone would nor­mally bond to. This drug is actu­ally used by both men and women and it is applied to the scalp top­i­cally twice a day.

Start today to deal with your hair loss and be sure you are actu­ally treat­ing the root cause and not just the sur­face issues involved.

Hair plays an impor­tant role in the female world. Many women are defined by their outer appear­ance. Hav­ing beau­ti­ful healthy hair is a part of the equa­tion that women use to mea­sure their beauty and appear­ance. Although hair loss in women is just as com­mon as it is in men, it is more dif­fi­cult to deal with. Hair loss occurs for a wide vari­ety of rea­sons and there are a hand­ful causes at the cen­ter of this problem.

One doc­u­mented med­ical con­di­tion know to com­monly to cause hair loss in women is menopause. When a woman begins to enter menopause the lev­els of estro­gen in the body begins to decrease. Estro­gen is needed to help pro­duce testos­terone. The cor­rect lev­els of testos­terone make it pos­si­ble for hair to con­tinue to grow and main­tain a healthy cycle. With­out enough estro­gen and testos­terone the growth of hair begins to slow result­ing in hair loss.

Women pat­tern bald­ness is typ­i­cally the thin­ning of the hair on the top of the scalp. For many, it can get quite thin, leav­ing women feel­ing very inse­cure and try­ing dif­fer­ent hair­styles to con­ceal the prob­lem. Unfor­tu­nately, they usu­ally opt for styles which can fur­ther dam­age hair fol­li­cles, lead­ing to more thinning.

In the past, women teased their hair, pulled it back in pony tails, or permed it to hide their secret. But, now there is some­thing that can be done to treat this prob­lem. In fact, if it is caught in time, hair can be regrown by using the proper treatment.

Sci­en­tist and doc­tors have for­mu­lated var­i­ous drugs, pills, solu­tions, and sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures just to stop hair loss. In many cases sci­ence has suc­cess­fully con­trolled the rate at which DHT has been caus­ing hair loss with prod­ucts. Many of these prod­ucts are also used to stop the onset of hair loss caused by cer­tain body hor­mones such as DHT. These prod­ucts included:

• Provil­lus
• Rogaine
• Nioxin
• Fol­li­cle revitalizers

While these treat­ments may stim­u­late faster hair growth there may be also some side effects that users have to antic­i­pate. Aside from the pro­duc­tion of hair-regrowth sub­stances, doc­tors have also devel­oped hair trans­plant surgery as a means to stim­u­late new hair growth. Hair trans­plant surgery involves trans­fer­ring fol­li­cles from areas where there are no pres­ence of DHT to the bald­ing areas of the head. For patients who pre­fer a nat­ural solu­tion, there are treat­ments that don’t involve the use of tech­nol­ogy or med­ica­tions. Aloe Vera, sting­ing net­tle green tea red pep­per and dong quia are some of the many herbal based treat­ments that users can either apply to their scalp or ingest. It is pointed out that these herbal — based treat­ments also con­tain sub­stances, which inhibit the spread of DHT. How­ever, no mat­ter what treat­ment option is cho­sen, it is always rec­om­mended that hair loss patients con­sult with a doc­tor to get the par­tic­u­lar med­ical diag­no­sis of his/her hair con­di­tion. The specifics of the patient’s case are vital so that he/she can get the most suit­able hair regrowth treatment.

While the loss of hair from the scalp- hair thin­ning, male pat­tern bald­ness, a reced­ing hair­line, and alope­cia– is a very com­mon and frus­trat­ing prob­lem among both men and women, some indi­vid­u­als suf­fer from loss of over­all body hair. There are five main causes of body hair loss– skin con­di­tions, hor­monal dis­or­ders, med­ica­tions and other med­ical ill­nesses, stress, and diet. Cer­tain skin con­di­tions, such as eczema, pso­ri­a­sis, der­mati­tis, skin injury, and burns, cause dam­age to the hair fol­li­cles and sur­round­ing cells mak­ing hair growth impos­si­ble. In some of these instances, espe­cially in the case of severe skin burns, the cell dam­age can be irre­versible so the body hair loss is also permanent.

Aside from hor­monal dis­or­ders and skin injury, cer­tain other med­ical ill­ness can lead to loss of body hair. Can­cer, dis­eases that affect the immune sys­tem, and con­di­tions that dis­rupt organ func­tion can all cause tem­po­rary lapses in the nat­ural hair growth process. In most cases the body hair loss is restricted to one or two areas most affected by the dis­ease or ill­ness, but in some cases the hair loss can be seen all over the body.

Because there are so many dif­fer­ent rea­sons that you may be los­ing the hair all over your body it is imper­a­tive that you see a doc­tor at the first sign of this hair loss. If the hair loss is a result of an under­ly­ing med­ical con­di­tion it is impor­tant that you receive treat­ment for the dis­ease not just the hair loss.

Make sure to pick up NEWSWEEK dou­ble issue: MAY 24 & 31, 2010

John Kahen, M.D the founder and med­ical direc­tor of Bev­erly Hills Hair Restora­tion is cur­rently fea­tured in NEWSWEEK mag­a­zine, an exclu­sive issue fea­tur­ing BEST DOCTORS IN THE GREATER LOS ANGELES.