One Reason Hair Thins is Because Some of it Turns into Skin
Update: A blog reader from Brazil sent me something very interesting yesterday. Apparently, there was a study published less than two months ago that concluded that chronic inflammation was turning...
View Article81-year old Italian Doctor to Release a Much Anticipated DGLA→PGE1 product
Several days ago I read a comment to my prior blog post that an 81-year old Italian doctor by the name of Dr. Giovanni Brotzu was planning to release a much anticipated prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) based...
View ArticleDemodex Mites and Hair Loss
Update: Paul has posted a response to some questions in the comments section. Over the years I have read a few hair loss forum threads linking the demodex mite to hair loss. The oldest such thread...
View ArticleBrief Items of Interest, February 2016
Hair loss news first: — Thanks to commentator “nosyu” from Japan for posting a link with news from today regarding hair and skin focused Japanese company Adjuvant Cosmetics, the renowned Dr. Takashi...
View Article74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology, March 4-8 2016
The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) will hold its 74th Annual Meeting between March 4 and March 8 in Washington DC. The schedule has around a dozen presentations involving scalp hair, although...
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John Travolta gets a new Face and a new Toupee
I was not planning to write a new post today, but several interesting developments have made me change my mind. There will probably be two posts in the next 24 hours. I have some free time on my...
View ArticleUpdate on Breezula (aka CB-03-01)
In 2014, I wrote about a new yet to be released topical antiandrogen product called CB-03-01. Historically, antiandrogen products have been ingested orally and often led to adverse side effects....
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Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) and Hair Darkening
At the beginning of this year I wrote a very lengthy post concerning the cure for grey hair. In that post, I mentioned Dr. Carlos Wesley’s recent surprising forum thread on how platelet-rich plasma...
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Key Grey Hair, Monobrow, Hair Thickness and Hair Shape Genes Discovered
I did not want to write a second post today and take away from the much needed discussion to the last post (lots of skeptics there and I do not blame them). However, a major discovery was just...
View ArticleSamumed’s SM04554 is no Miracle Cure, but why did People Think so in the...
Update: Samumed released their presentation files. Actual presentation at the conference was by the CEO Yusuf Yazici. — Press Release. — Details. Per page 12 of the above second link, while the...
View ArticleInterview with Dr. Anu Singh of Dabur Research in India
In my first post on Follicum in 2015, I mentioned how the Swedish company had pre-clinical trials for its hair loss product conducted by contract research organization Dabur Research Foundation (DRF)...
View ArticleDanny DeVito — Bald and 4 Feet 10 Inches Tall
Danny DeVito put a smile on my face today. He deserves his own blog post. In fact he should be the one getting the endorsement in the below video! I can’t believe Mr. DeVito is 71 years old.
View ArticleBrief Items of Interest, March 2016
Hair loss news first: Since the last “brief items of interest” post a month ago, there have been numerous important developments in the hair loss world. Some involve renowned researchers that have...
View ArticleSo JAK Inhibitors Could Yet Still Cure Androgenic Alopecia!?
After my relatively long break, I had a lengthy post planned for today, but need to delay it due to a potentially great new development. Summary of the Recent Past In 2014, the biggest news in the hair...
View ArticleTokyo University of Science and RIKEN Collaborate and Grow Almost Perfect...
On April 1, a distinguished team of researchers from Japan published an important paper in the journal Science Advances describing how they successfully grew skin tissue in the lab (using reprogrammed...
View ArticleStem Cell Research Related to Hair Finally Arrives in the Bahamas
This post was borne out of necessity just like the prior one due to: numerous comments about this story in the comments to the last blog post; several e-mails to me about this development; and threads...
View ArticleFollica Surprises yet Again and Targets a Best Case Scenario Release Date of...
Two days ago, someone named “Xaser94” on the hairlosstalk forums started an extremely interesting thread related to a company named Follica (which I have covered on this blog before). The main point...
View ArticleMr. Neal Walker
Based on two of my more recent posts, I think hereon, it is important to follow Mr. Neal Walker, including tracking his stock purchases and company affiliations. Besides being the 1) Chairman of...
View ArticleBrief Items of Interest, April 2016
Hair loss news first: — We start with Samumed and its Turkish CEO Osman Kibar being featured in a Forbes magazine cover page story and article that everyone was talking about last week. Turkish media...
View ArticleIncreasing 3-Alpha-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase to Treat Hair Loss?
Update: “Roman” is now answering questions in the comments to this blog post. At some point I might delete most of the pasted chat messages at the bottom of this post. Update: I did not realize that...
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