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Helping hair with herbs - ... important to remember that “natural” doesn’t always mean “harmless.” Also, there’s no way to be sure exactly how ...
Getting your daily vitamins - ...y requirement, though; doctors have linked hair loss to both deficiencies of some vitamins and excesses of others, and some vitamins can be dang...
Pumping up calories and proteins - ...gh it, or it may be brittle and break off easily — all may reflect a nutritional problem with your diet.
You can get most of the ami...
Eating Your Way to Healthy Hair - ...y thanks to what you put into it. Can you avoid baldness forever by consuming enough protein, vitamins, and minerals? Probably not (forever is a t...
Before the hair transplant Surgery - ... days prior to the surgery.
Speak to your doctor about any medications you normally take, and get instructions about what you sho...
Seeing results for yourself - ...u want A 23-year-old patient had developed the nickname “Captain Forehead” when he first came to see me (Dr. Rassman). His hairline ...
Follicular unit transplantation - ...dividual follicular units. Drs. Bernstein and Rassman first described this procedure in the 1995 Journal of Aesthetic and Restoration Surgery. B...
Small versus large hair grafts - ...grafts placed in a frontal hairline look pluggy and unnatural when the hair is combed back or to the side. Patients were forced to comb their ...
Avoiding the hair transplant look - ...he patient is left with a scalp resembling a doll’s head. Larger graft hair transplants took more skin from the scalp, and it produced subtl...
Scalp reduction techniques - ...und appealing, if perhaps a bit macabre (moving pieces of scalp around your head?). Unsurprisingly, there were many problems with flaps, includi...
Wearing Hats Causes Hair Loss - ... only one gene on one chromosome to express the balding trait, although multiple genes appear to influence the balding process.
You can ge...
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Relaxation techniques that help you release stress (11/20/2011)
(...) This really is concerning the breathing technique, and never only, once you become acquainted with breathing slow and deep, and also you begin to relax and release stress, then it's the time when you can start the meditation technique. master the strategy. In certain meditation techniques, the mind adopts an identical sleep-like state, which is great for your health. (...)
When to take bodybuilding supplements based on protein (07/14/2011)
(...) Obviously, the simplest way to buy such kind of supplement would be to ask one’s fitness trainer or even the frequented gym’s staff. Bodybuilding supplements are marketed and sold to customers with no dependence on a prescription, therefore sport nutrition sales have risen to staggering heights, causeing this to be one of the most profitable industries of the modern world.
Bodybuilders don’t necessarily need to eat protein. (...)
You dont go bald because your hair is falling out (06/21/2010)
(...) The best example is Sam, who was in the shower when the 1994 Northridge earthquake hit in California. Sam never went out without his baseball cap, but when his apartment started to shake, he put a towel around his waist and ran out of the apartment without his baseball hat on. When he reached the street half-naked, Sam realized his head was also naked and immediately ran into the shaking building to retrieve it. (...)
Wearing Hats Causes Hair Loss (06/21/2010)
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Wearing Hats Causes Hair Loss
More than a few people believe that hats are to blame for baldness based on the idea that hats cut off air circulation to the scalp and prevent the scalp from breathing. What they don’t know is that hair follicles get oxygen from the bloodstream, not the air, so you can’t suffocate your hair follicles just by wearing a hat. The baseball cap so often worn by men whose hair is thinning doesn’t cause baldness it hides baldness. (...)
Understanding the Potential Risks of LLLT (06/19/2010)
(...) The effectiveness data was obtained from a multicenter, randomized, placebocontrolled trial conducted at four sites in the U.S. FDA approval requires a much more rigorous process. (...)
Doing It Yourself: Hand held Home use Lasers (06/19/2010)
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With this system, 15 separate points of laser light irradiate the scalp. In addition, the floating laser heads of this instrument ensure that the laser light channels conform to the shape of the scalp and head. This direct contact is the main differentiating feature between this machine and the laser comb. (...)
Diagnosing the cause of hair loss before beginning LLLT therapy (06/19/2010)
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LLLT systems available in the doctor’s office involve the patient sitting under the machine, an experience similar to sitting under a hair dryer at the hair salon. The advantages of having laser done in the office include the following:
The lasers are stronger.
You get a precise amount of laser delivered each time. (...)
Low Level Laser Therapy for hair loss (06/19/2010)
(...) The major chromophores that affect your hair are
Melanin (in hair follicles and sun spots)
Hemoglobin (in blood vessels)
Water (throughout the epidermis and dermis — layers of your skin)
Medical lasers can be either high or low powered. There’s no question that high powered lasers are very effective in treating a number of medical conditions.
High-powered lasers are used to destroy hair follicles and remove unwanted hair, target abnormal blood vessels (such as varicose veins), and erase fine lines and wrinkles. (...)
Hair loss and the Traditional Chinese medicine (06/19/2010)
(...) It may also delay natural graying. Practitioners of Chinese medicine use He Shou Wu for other conditions, such as strengthening weak bones, decreasing high blood pressure, and treating constipation. It’s also thought to have anti-aging properties. (...)
Helping hair with herbs (06/19/2010)
(...) ” The following sections get into a number of alternative medicines. Our goal in sharing this information isn’t to advocate the use, or disuse, of these products but merely to present them in as scientific a manner as possible.
Saw palmetto
Saw palmetto is a small plum plant endemic to the southeastern United States. (...)
Oils Herbs and Extracts: Alternative Hair Loss Remedies (06/19/2010)
(...) ) Ancient Indians and Polynesians used coconut oil, and ancient Africans used olive oil, all applied to the hair and scalp in an attempt to stimulate hair growth. At least one current study shows that oil application can help with some specific types of hair loss. In 1998, researchers from Scotland published their results of a randomized, double-blind controlled study investigating aromatherapy in patients with alopecia areata, a condition in which the body’s immune cells start attacking healthy hair-producing cells. (...)
Getting your daily vitamins (06/19/2010)
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Foods high in vitamin A include carrots, broccoli, and liver. The current recommendation of daily vitamin A intake is 900 micrograms (mcg) (3,000 IU) for men and 700 micrograms (2,300 IU) for women.
B-complex vitamins
The B vitamins include thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, cobalmin, and pantothenic acid. (...)
Pumping up calories and proteins (06/19/2010)
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Two sulfur-containing amino acids, methionine and cysteine, are most important for maintaining hair health because human hair requires sulfur for normal growth. (The body also requires sulfur for healthy connective tissue formation.)
Methionine: Methionine is an essential amino acid that your body doesn’t produce, so it must come from your diet or from supplements. (...)
Eating Your Way to Healthy Hair (06/19/2010)
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People who don’t eat meat or dairy products may be missing out on important vitamins and minerals necessary for hair health... (...)
The Night and Morning after the hair transplant Surgery (06/19/2010)
(...) Also, you should be given a travel-type neck pillow for properly positioning the head at home. The pain will usually subside by morning.
• Bandaging and bleeding: You’ll leave the office with a 1-inch band wrapped around your head, like a tennis sweat band. (...)
Hair transplant surgery is usually performed under local anesthesia (06/19/2010)
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There should be no pain associated with a hair transplant procedure aside from some small mosquito bite-type shots during the initial administration of local anesthesia. The amount of sedation may be the choice of the doctor or the patient, and the depth of the sedation various with different clinics.
The entire procedure may take place in a surgical chair much like the chair at your dentist’s office. (...)
Before the hair transplant Surgery (06/19/2010)
(...) Reducing the bacterial count in the hair follicles is best done with good washing before the surgery.
Review any paperwork you have before you head in for your surgery; this should include all the communications between the doctor’s office and you. You should have received a copy of the informed consent form that you have to sign on the morning of the surgery. (...)
Seeing results for yourself (06/19/2010)
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Six months later, he made an appointment with my colleague and got on the surgery schedule. I met him again the day after the surgery and was disappointed to find that he had gone forward with a transplant. To my surprise, I found out that this young man had moved out of his apartment and into his 1991 Dodge Omni (he was over 6 feet tall, so it must have been cozy!), where he had lived for the last 6 months. (...)
Buying a hair transplant requires extensive research (06/19/2010)
(...) Low-balling bids to make the sale isn’t an uncommon practice in many industries, but we’re talking about what you’ll look like for the rest of your life, so low-balling here can have a particularly dramatic effect.
Are you being pressured by hard-sell tactics? Too many doctors oversell, even though it’s unethical. Does the doctor keep putting a salesperson between you? Salespeople may sell the doctor’s service like a used car. (...)
The most important factor in hair transplant surgery (06/19/2010)
(...) ishrs.org) lists hundreds of doctors worldwide who work in the field. You also may want to enter “hair transplantation” along with your city and state in your favorite search engine, and explore the results. (...)
Frontal hairline recession the most common hair loss pattern (06/19/2010)
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Are you fully informed about every aspect of the reconstruction process? We often joke with our patients about changing our clinic’s name to The No-Surprises Institute for Hair Reconstruction. Men don’t like surprises, and few things frighten them more than surprises in cost or in the achieved results. You shouldn’t be caught unawares in any aspect of your hair transplant or future treatments. (...)
Follicular unit extraction allows the surgeon to remove individual follicular units (06/19/2010)
(...) FUE has the following advantages:
There’s no linear scar in the donor area. Of course a scar always results from every skin incision, but since scars are very small and scattered in a larger area, they often aren’t detectable even when the hair is relatively short.
There are no sutures or staples to be removed. (...)
Single strip harvesting removes the donor tissue as a single strip (06/19/2010)
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The FUE technique can also produce superior hair yields, especially with new technology just being developed. The problem with FUE is that it is very taxing on the surgeon doing the procedure and requires intense concentration for prolonged periods of time to perform the surgery. The surgeon’s fatigue becomes a factor when this technique is extended to more than 1000 grafts. (...)
Follicular unit transplantation (06/19/2010)
(...) Applying this technique to FUT, all the follicular units are removed from the donor tissue under microscopic control to avoid damage.
Complete stereo-microscopic dissection increases the yield of the number of follicular units as well as the total amount of hair (upwards of 25 percent). The hair seems to come out of a single hole and that the hairs are bundled together in their naturally growing groups. (...)
Minigrafts and micrografts consist of multiple follicular units (06/19/2010)
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Micrografts tend to have more skin in the graft, which makes them lose their skin pigment. Even micrografts containing as few as two or three hairs may contain the skin between two follicular units, which is unnecessary.
Micrografts look thin when used exclusively over the entire head and may produce inconsistent graft growth. (...)
Small versus large hair grafts (06/19/2010)
(...) Until these new blood vessels grow into the graft, the graft’s cells depend upon the surrounding tissue to bring the needed oxygen and nutrients for their survival.
Hair follicle cells have a very high metabolic rate, and they require more oxygen and nutrients than other cells. If the graft is too large, the cells of the follicles in the center of the graft may die before sufficient oxygen and nutrients can reach the center of the graft. (...)
Avoiding the hair transplant look (06/19/2010)
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As the skin of the graft heals, the melanocytes (the part of the skin that produces pigment) may not recover from the transplant process and give the graft a whitish appearance. This is particularly a problem for anyone with a dark skin color.
Hair in its natural state is composed of hair groupings of follicular units that have one to four hairs close together. (...)
A hair transplant that relied entirely on the use of micrografts (06/19/2010)
(...) In refining the technique, doctors came to understand that moving more hair in the transplant would eventually lead to fuller and better aesthetic results. The technique defined by Dr. Uebel evolved into what’s now called the megasession, large session transplant surgeries. (...)
Scalp reduction techniques (06/19/2010)
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There was a distinct change from the hairless forehead to a heavy line of thick hair and then, if the patient had any degree of baldness behind the flap the ‘island’ of flap would be easily seen.
Unlike a natural hairline, which has a slow transition from the bald forehead to the thicker hair area behind it, the flap had a detectably abrupt hairline and then an abnormal transition to baldness on the back side of the scalp.
One flap couldn’t cover the entire reconstructed frontal hairline, so two flaps were often used and joined in the middle or off to one side. (...)
Tracing the evolution of hair restoration techniques (06/19/2010)
(...) In fact, the same size punch used to remove tissue from the back of the scalp was also used to remove bald skin from the front. It was replaced with hair-bearing circles of skin from the back and sides of the head where the hair was permanent.
This punch graft technique was the standard procedure for all hair transplants for many years. (...)
Hair Restoration Options: Past and Present (06/19/2010)
(...) He investigated the concept of auto transplantation (transplanting from one part of the body to another) using hair, feathers, and skin in animals.
Although there were sporadic reports of hair transplantation in European and Japanese literature during the mid to late 19th century, the modern era of hair transplantation really began in 1939 with the Japanese dermatologist, Dr. Okuda, who used small grafts to correct various hair loss conditions of the scalp, eyebrows, and mustache. (...)
Running shoes to maximize your effort (06/12/2010)
(...) Before purchasing a new pair of running shoes, there are few things to consider. Size, type, and shape are very important. The materials used in manufacturing the shoe and its construction are important for "breathability" and durability. (...)
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