The Connection Between Obesity and Hair Loss Recent research shows a poor, high-fat diet can impair hair follicles and thin one’s hair. The good news: Diet, unlike genetics, is in the control of the individual.   “Old, fat, and bald.” It’s a cliché disparagement that is an unkind indictment, yet […]

How Smoking Tobacco Cigarettes Can Cause Hair Loss Does a draw on a Marlboro cause balding? Can we blame a Newport or Camel cigarette for hair loss? Will a Kool be not so cool for your appearance? Science weighs in.   Of COURSE smoking is deleterious to hair health. You […]

Natural Hair Loss Remedies It’s easy to assume going bald can only be resisted with modern medicines or surgery. But healthy eating and natural topical treatments can help.   While drugs, surgery, nonsurgical hair replacement, and laser treatments are available to address certain hair loss, these hair loss solutions are […]

Is There a Cure for Hair Loss On the Horizon? Promising discoveries in laboratories increase our understanding of what leads to hair loss. But for now, finasteride and minoxidil are what works.   Since ancient times, the search for a cure for baldness – hair loss – has been a […]

Platelet Rich Plasma, PRP and Hair Loss Patient, heal thyself: Early results from use of a component of blood drawn from and re-injected into the person with hair loss show the treatment works.   The use of a patient’s own blood for surgery is finding acceptance in medicine – research […]

Stem Cell Research and Hair Loss There is genuine reason to be excited over what human stem cells can do to regenerate tissue – and hair restoration might become a common application.   There are many kinds of hair loss conditions. But the one associated with aging is almost universal. […]

The Norwood Scale and Female Pattern Baldness Hair loss in women is biologically the same as for men. But the pattern by which that happens is different between sexes – and should be addressed as such.   The very phrase “female pattern baldness” might surprise a lot of people. They […]

Dermatological Conditions that Cause Hair Loss Human skin, on our scalp as well as elsewhere on the body, is our bodies’ armor against the outside world. But it’s not infallible, nor is our hair.   Oh the humanity! There are so many skin diseases that alone affect the scalp and […]

The Norwood Scale and Male Pattern Baldness How does the Norwood Scale work? It simply shows what minimal, medium, and maximum hair loss looks like, helping men figure out if – and when – to stop it.   It might seem as if someone experiencing male pattern baldness, the most […]

What Is Trichotillomania? The obsessive, compulsive, and seemingly involuntary tugging and pulling of one’s own hair is a perplexing condition with complex solutions.   With so much social attention on healthy, lustrous hair, it might be hard for most of us to grasp the trichotillomania, one of the more troublesome […]