Written by admin on 27 March 2010
Hair is something we take for granted – until we discover that we don’t have as much as we used to. Most people don’t realize, though, that we lose hair everyday. Hair goes through a cycle of growth and rest. After growing and resting, strands of hair fall out, and the growth stage starts over. Most people usually lose about 50 to 100 hairs a day, which is hardly noticeable considering the hundreds of thousands of hairs on a head. But when hair sheds at a faster rate than it grows, the result is thinning hair or baldness. American hair growth centers around the country offer excellent new treatments that show great promise for people frustrated and embarrassed over hair loss.
The gradual thinning of hair is a normal part of the aging process. But there are specific types of hair loss that are not just related to aging. Baldness may be due to heredity, certain medications, or medical conditions. Other causes of baldness include diseases (diabetes and lupus, for example), poor nutrition, stress, chemotherapy or radiation treatments, hormonal imbalances, chemical hair treatments, and scalp infections.
Pattern baldness, in which new hair growth is less vigorous and hair easily falls out, is the most common type of hair loss. It affects about one-third of men and women, and is usually permanent. Temporary hair loss may occur suddenly or gradually and may result in bald patches or overall hair thinning. Bald patches can also occur from hairstyles that pull on the strands of hair, like braids, pigtails, or cornrows.
Baldness can’t be cured, but treatments can help promote new hair growth. Medications and surgical treatments have improved significantly in recent years, but one of the most exciting treatment options is laser therapy. Laser therapy delivers laser light to the scalp, improving circulation and increasing cell growth. High quality laser therapy does not cause inflammation, and results in rapid healing of wounds. Without damaging heat, a cold laser penetrates the scalp but does not harm the skin.
Lasers treatments are often most effective when done as part of a multi-step process. Hair growth and overall health go together; that’s why it’s important to eliminate harmful chemicals and detoxify the scalp. Most popular shampoos contain chemicals. Switching to a natural, nutritional shampoo and conditioner helps keep hair follicles clean and blood circulating. Scalp massage manually removes toxins, restoring the body’s ability to provide nourishment to the scalp. At American hair growth centers, the process of hair restoration includes a regimen of vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids to alleviate oily or dry skin and balance hormone levels. Exercise helps reduce stress to the body and increase blood circulation to the hair follicles.
Before deciding on any course of treatment for hair loss, it is important to seek medical advice from a family physician or dermatologist. The cause of the hair loss is a key consideration in the choice of treatments; a physician can help determine the cause. Plus, baldness can result from underlying medical conditions, so it’s important to address health issues as part of an overall treatment plan. All in all, a combination of treatments, including laser therapy, is a sound approach to hair re-growth. Anywhere in the country, from New York to Miami to Los Angeles or Chicago, hair loss can be a thing of the past.
To learn more about subjects like American Hair Growth Centers please visit the web site at: http://www.AmericanHairGrowthCenters.com
Written by admin on 16 January 2010
According to a recent study, more than half the population is dissatisfied with their hair appearance. As a result, men and women may seek to address hair loss as part of their New Year’s resolutions.
Hair loss contributes to a lack of confidence and has a ‘negative impact on social or job situations’, according to almost half (40 percent) of the 4,500 respondents in a survey conducted by FL. Lexington International.
And like some of the most popular New Year’s Resolutions, such as weight loss and getting a better job, confidence is a major factor in a person’s decision to seek treatment for hair loss.
According to a recent survey, 60 percent of hair loss sufferers would rather have more hair than money or friends.
The majority of men and women do not want to have hair transplant and choose to live with their hair loss for the rest of their lives. For those people, the solution that they have been waiting for is here. The American Hair Growth Centers has developed a 7-Step process that will regrow 95% of the lost hair in less than 6-months.
“The treatment is very successful, more so at the early stage of hair loss,” said Jacob, a current client of one of the American Hair Growth Centers in Chicago. Thinning hair, a receding hairline or excess shedding are common precursors to genetic hair loss, and the result of an inherited sensitisation to the effects of dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Without any external interference, the follicles could eventually shrivel and cease growing hairs and/or producing new hair.
While hair loss affects roughly 80 percent and 40 percent of men and women, respectively, there are a growing number of Hair Loss Success Stories as a result of the American 7-Step Process developed by American Hair Growth Centers. Those who make it their New Year’s resolution to stop hair loss and restore their hair to its former opulence must be sure to get the best advice and treatment straight up. Why put it off until tomorrow when you can start to regain today?
The American Hair Growth Centers offer free consultations to both men and women concerned about hair loss. Get ahead in the fight against hair loss and contact us now for more information at 847-945-2000, or check out our website for more information atwww.AmericanHairGrowthCenters.com
Written by admin on 15 January 2010
Wearing a hat can cause baldness
False. Most experts do not believe that wearing a hat can cause baldness. To cause hair loss, the hat would have to be tight enough to cut off circulation to the scalp. To be on the safe side, if you do wear hats, make sure they are breathable and not tight enough to cause discomfort.
Hair loss is inherited from your mother’s side
Undetermined. I have seen it said that hair loss is hereditarily passed down on the X chromosome, therefore mothers pass down the gene that causes baldness.
Shaving your hair will cause it to grow back thicker
False. This is another widely believed myth, even though it has no scientific backing.
Hanging upside down will stop hair loss
False. The hair loss market has produced some strange products, but one of the strangest is a device that allows the user to hang upside down for long periods of time. The theory is that the increased blood flow to the brain will stimulate hair growth. Don’t try this one at home, there is no evidence of any medical benefit from this therapy. And all that blood rushing to your head can give a pounding headache.
Vitamin Deficiencies cause hair loss
False, in most cases. In developed countries such as the US, vitamin deficiencies are rare. The mineral zinc, however, is believed by some to help stop hair loss. In extreme cases of malnourishment hair loss may result as a side effect of general poor health. This can occur in people with eating disorders, such as Anorexia and Bulimia. Taking a multivitamin is recommended by the American Hair Growth Centers, many physicians and dermatologists, so this is a rather harmless myth.
Written by admin on 09 January 2010
Hair goes through a cycle of growth and rest. After growing and resting, strands of hair fall out, and the growth stage starts over. Most people usually lose about 50 to 100 hairs a day, which is hardly noticeable considering the hundreds of thousands of hairs on a head. But when hair sheds at a faster rate than it grows, the result is thinning hair or baldness. American Hair Growth centers around the country offer excellent new treatments that show great promise for people frustrated and embarrassed over hair loss.
The gradual thinning of hair is a normal part of the aging process. But there are specific types of hair loss that are not just related to aging. Baldness may be due to heredity, certain medications, or medical conditions. Other causes of baldness include diseases (diabetes and lupus, for example), poor nutrition, stress, chemotherapy or radiation treatments, hormonal imbalances, chemical hair treatments, and scalp infections.
Pattern baldness, in which new hair growth is less vigorous and hair easily falls out, is the most common type of hair loss. It affects about one-third of men and women, and is usually permanent. Temporary hair loss may occur suddenly or gradually and may result in bald patches or overall hair thinning. Bald patches can also occur from hairstyles that pull on the strands of hair, like braids, pigtails, or cornrows.
Baldness can’t be cured, but treatments can help promote new hair growth. Medications and surgical treatments have improved significantly in recent years, but one of the most exciting treatment options is laser therapy. Laser therapy delivers laser light to the scalp, improving circulation and increasing cell growth. High quality laser therapy does not cause inflammation, and results in rapid healing of wounds. Without damaging heat, a cold laser penetrates the scalp but does not harm the skin.
Lasers treatments are often most effective when done as part of a multi-step process. Hair growth and overall health go together; that’s why it’s important to eliminate harmful chemicals and detoxify the scalp. Most popular shampoos contain chemicals. Switching to a natural, nutritional shampoo and conditioner helps keep hair follicles clean and blood circulating. Scalp massage manually removes toxins, restoring the body’s ability to provide nourishment to the scalp. At American hair growth centers, the process of hair restoration includes a regimen of vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids to alleviate oily or dry skin and balance hormone levels. Exercise helps reduce stress to the body and increase blood circulation to the hair follicles.
Before deciding on any course of treatment for hair loss, it is important to seek medical advice from a family physician or dermatologist. The cause of the hair loss is a key consideration in the choice of treatments; a physician can help determine the cause. Plus, baldness can result from underlying medical conditions, so it’s important to address health issues as part of an overall treatment plan. All in all, a combination of treatments, including laser therapy, is a sound approach to hair re-growth. Anywhere in the country, from New York to Miami to Los Angeles or Chicago, hair loss can be a thing of the past.
To learn more about subjects like American Hair Growth Centers please visit the web site at: http://www.AmericanHairGrowthCenters.com
Written by admin on 07 January 2010
American Hair Growth Centers has been at the edge of regrowing and regenerating hair naturally. For years, American Hair Growth Centers and its affiliates has researched products, therapies, remedies and services to help stimulate hair growth and regenerate healthy hair is a very short period of time. Through research, American Hair Growth Centers has developed a 7-step process that is guaranteed to to stimulate the hair follicles naturally. The process has been proven effective on clients from different backgrounds and hair types. Here are some of the video testimonies from actual clients of our clinics.
http://www.americanhairgrowthcenters.com/ClientVideos.asp
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http://www.americanhairgrowthcenters.com/Home.asp
You can also reach the American Hair Growth Centers at their main number: 847-945-2000.
Written by admin on 06 January 2010
The Beatles in 1966, when they sang about combing their hair. Photograph: Collection/Rex Features
In 1966, hair combing made noise on both sides of the Atlantic – musical noise to the east, scientific to the west.
In England, the Beatles released a song that said: “Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head”. In America, William C Waggoner and George V Scott of the Colgate-Palmolive Company published a monograph explaining how they had measured, with a fair degree of precision, the sound of a comb being dragged through a hank of hair.
The Beatles never fully explained why they did what they did. Waggoner and Scott, in contrast, took pains to explain themselves. The Waggoner/Scott writing style differs from that of the Beatles’ John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Savour their words:
“In an attempt to investigate characteristics of hair sound and feel as experienced by an individual during the combing process, an electronic comb which measures frequencies generated by tooth-hair interface friction was developed.”
Waggoner and Scott devised a simple method to investigate those characteristics. They wrote about it with typical panache:
“An Ace Waveserra hard rubber comb was affixed to the contact microphone by two small bolts. A third bolt, which had been placed through the comb frame, served as a pressure-adjustable contact bridge between the comb and microphone. In this situation, any sound frequencies received by the comb are carried to the contact microphone via the steel bolt.”
Waggoner and Scott’s biggest discovery, in their view, was that “bleached hair gives much higher raspiness levels than unbleached hair”.
But, like all good scientists, they express healthy scepticism about their own work. “The hair-on-hair versus comb-on-hair noise ratio should be explored,” they urge. “Our assumption that the major noise component is a result of tooth-hair interface friction may be vulnerable.”
Appearing in the Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, under the title Instrumental Method for the Determination of Hair Raspiness, the Wagonner/Scott study indeed proved to be just one step along the path to full understanding of hair sounds.
Seven years later, a report in that same journal both paid tribute to Waggoner and Scott’s hair acoustical work, and surpassed it. Walter Newman, at Johnson & Johnson Research Center, and George Cohen and Cletus Hayes of Bristol-Myers Products, achieved one of hair science’s holy grails. Their study describes “a quantitative and reproducible method of measuring the force required to pull a comb through a tress of hair”.
This in turn led, if only metaphorically, to the publication in 2002 of one of the sublime achievements of modern physics, a study performed by seven Australian scientists under the indisputably lyrical title An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep Over Various Surfaces. The authors were awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel prize in physics. Despite the strong objections of the vice-chancellor of the university at which five of them were based, the team accepted the prize, and received much subsequent international acclaim.
By Marc Abraham from the Guardian
• Marc Abrahams is editor of the bimonthly Annals of Improbable Research and organiser of the Ig Nobel prize.
Written by admin on 12 December 2009
An Alameda County, Calif., jury late last month returned a $50 million verdict (.pdf) in a class action that sought relief for Californians who’d bought Avacor, a hair-loss remedy that was marketed as an all-natural, clinically tested product.
Attorneys fees have yet to be decided, said L. Timothy Fisher, of Walnut Creek, Calif., firm Bramson, Plutzik, Mahler & Birkhaeuser. New York lawyer Scott Bursor and New York firm Faruqi & Faruqi also represented the plaintiffs. There were about 150,000 purchases of Avacor in California during the class period, but since some were reorders, the exact size of the class is unclear, Fisher said.
The outcome against two defendants marked the second trial victory in the same class action for the plaintiff lawyers. The earlier trial had ended in a $40 million win against different defendants, but Fisher said the awards from the trials will not be added together, and he expects the court will order that $50 million in all be returned to the class.
Both trials took place before Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert Freedman.
The defendants in the latest trial were two officers of Global Vision Products Inc., Robert DeBenedictis and Henry Edelson — a court stay after the company’s 2007 bankruptcy filing had kept them out of the earlier one. DeBenedictis was represented by Peter Hart and Michael Collins of LeClairRyan’s San Francisco and New York offices, respectively. Edelson was recently representing himself and did not appear at trial.
One of DeBenedictis’ lawyers said his client was just an investor and not directly participating in the company in its early years, and that he planned to appeal.
“Once he became involved in 2004, he took every effort he possibly could to get the company back on the straight and narrow and get its advertising in compliance with the Better Business Bureau and the Food and Drug Administration,” Hart said. “We think the jury looked at his position and made the leap that just because he was president, he was responsible.” To bolster that thought, he noted that the jury had found in DeBenedictis’ favor on allegations of conspiracy with defendants from the earlier trial.
Name plaintiffs Garrett Boyd and James Thomas claimed Avacor’s three-part “hair re-growth program” was misleading in selling itself as an all-natural, clinically tested product with no side effects. Fisher, one of their lawyers, contended that Global Vision Products’ advertising referred to a clinic that didn’t exist, a study that was never done and success rates that had no backing. The company, having filed for bankruptcy, was not included in either trial in Thomas v. Global Vision Products, RG-03091195.
Testimony that DeBenedictis continues to sell Avacor seemed influential with the jury, Fisher said.
“We got the sense that they understood how many people had been defrauded here and that this was a widespread scheme, that this was something that [they] needed to put a stop to.”
But Hart said that while DeBenedictis has an interest in a new company, Avacor, no state or federal agency is claiming that selling the hair remedy is improper.
The 2007 trial involved three principal defendants: Avacor’s creator, a Nascar driver hired as its celebrity spokesman and a former doctor who appeared in ads for the product. The jury returned a verdict of just under $37 million. In his May 2008 statement of decision, Freedman increased the award to $40 million.
“The court can and does take judicial notice of the fact that enormous sums of money are spent on personal care and grooming products,” Freedman wrote in that decision (.pdf). “Into this lucrative market stepped a band of hucksters, defendants, to prey on the vulnerabilities of human nature and employing a colossal array of false, deceptive and fraudulent techniques cynically collected millions of dollars from deceived California consumers.”
Written by admin on 07 November 2009
Hair loss is truly a major problem is our society, this is why women hair loss prevention should be an important concern for women whether they are suffering from hair loss or not. This is because understanding prevention avoids the problem entirely and solves people from a lot of grief.
While hair fall can be quite a problem, avoiding it is actually easy and doable. As long as women remain vigilant and understand the science behind keeping the hair and scalp healthy. The best thing about prevention is that it can be done in just two simple steps. As long as these precautions are taken, women should not have to worry about hair loss problems anymore.
Step 1: Have Regular Checkups
Women often have the time and budget to see a hairstylist or a dermatologist for hair care and facials. Women should take this initiative one step further by bringing their hair to skin experts and have their scalp examined. Hair stylists know a thing or two about healthy scalps, but nothing beats the advice of a hair loss specialist.
A hair expert can tell you whether your scalp is healthy or not, and will also advise you whether you are living a healthy lifestyle that will encourage the growth of hair follicles. They can also tell you if the products or treatments you are using are truly beneficial to your hair.
Step 2: Balance Your Nutritional Intake
Having the right set of nutrients in your body is the simplest step for women hair loss prevention. All you need is to ensure that you get the right amount of vitamins each day in order to provide your body with all the nutrients it needs. If your current diet is lacking, you can adjust your daily menu or take vitamin supplements to offset the lacking nutrients. What is important is that you take good care of your body, and the result will definitely show.
Hair Loss is Natural. However, Hair Loss becomes an alarming condition when a person loses more than the usual amount of hair that he/she sheds. If you are looking for more information about women hair loss, visit American Hair Growth Centers at www.AmericanHairGrowthCenters.com or call us at 847-945-2000.
Written by admin on 21 October 2009
Both Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) and its close relative Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) are commonly used in many soaps, shampoos, detergents, toothpastes and other products that we expect to “foam up”. Both chemicals are very effective foaming agents, chemically known as surfactants.
Unfortunately, both sodium laureth sulfate and its cousin are also very dangerous, highly irritating chemicals. Far from giving “healthy shining hair” and “beautiful skin”, soaps and shampoos containing sodium laureth sulfate can lead to direct damage to the hair follicle, skin damage, permanent eye damage in children and even liver toxicity.
Although sodium laureth sulfate is somewhat less irritating than SLS, it cannot be metabolised by the liver and its effects are therefore much longer-lasting. This not only means it stays in the body tissues for longer, but much more precious energy is used getting rid of it.
A report published in the Journal of The American College of Toxicology in 1983 showed that concentrations of SLS as low as 0.5% could cause irritation and concentrations of 10-30% caused skin corrosion and severe irritation. National Institutes of Health “Household Products Directory” of chemical ingredients lists over 80 products that contain SLS and SLES. Some soaps have concentrations of up to 30%, which the ACT report called “highly irritating and dangerous”.
Shampoos are among the most frequently reported products to the FDA. Reports include eye irritation, scalp irritation, tangled hair, swelling of the hands, face and arms and split and fuzzy hair. This is highly characteristic of sodium laureth sulfate and almost definitely directly related to its use.
Written by admin on 03 September 2009
The image shown here is known as the norwood scale, the best way to determine your hair loss pattern and to be able to communicate via email or telephone to a hair loss consultant.
