The Oprah Effect and Hair Transplants

The Oprah Effect on CNBC



After watching the Oprah Effect on CNBC the other night I was amazed how a simple mention by Oprah Winfrey can launch a product or even in industry into a total transformation.

This can be seen with all those "as seen on Oprah" sales pitches you get in your email inboxes. A perfect example is her buddy Dr. Oz endorsing Resveratrol as an age defying pill. Resveratrol sales are through the roof, and there are studies showing Resveratrol reverses hair loss.

On today's show, Dr Oz was at again and brought out Hair Transplant Surgeon Dr Bernstein. They showed a clip about FUE hair transplants and suggested that todays results look completely natural. The hair transplant result was shown live by a member of the audience and Oprah couldn't tell the difference.

This is a great endorsement for Hair Transplants and perhaps the Oprah Effect will remove some of the stigma involved with Hair Restoration.

Dr Bernstein did mention that Propecia and Rogaine should be tried first, but Hair Transplants are a viable solution for men and their hair loss.

New Breakthrough Baldness Treatment

Baldness Treatment

Look being bald or going bald or baldness itself is not a big deal for some people but it is for me. So every time there is news of a baldness cure I have to take a careful look.

I will admit that ever since I started doing research online about hair loss, I have found several baldness treatments I was ignoring and together they have yielded some hair growth. So I do believe there is some help out there.

I've been monitoring the chat in the hair loss forums about Dr Robert Jones Platelet Rich Plasma therapy for thinning hair and today Dr Jones published a video explaining this breakthrough Baldness Treatment.

Whenever, we hear about advancements in hair loss treatments they always seem to be about mice and years away from human study, but Dr Jones is treating hair loss patients with Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy in his office already so I was very intrigued about his video.

Baldness: Resveratrol & Curcumin Grow Hair

I have been taking resveratrol for hair loss for months and I've noticed great things about my skin but not so much my hair growth. I remembered seeing the 60 minutes story featuring resveratrol and remembered that it needed to be mixed with Curcumin to help stop hair loss.

Here is the study regarding Resveratrol and Curcumin for Hair loss. It is everywhere online but I wanted to post it for my readers. I have researched the best Resveratrol and Curcumin to buy because every one and their mother is selling watered down versions of resvertrol which don't even seem to come from the right natural source.

I'm not selling anything on this site so if you want to know what I use and how I get it at a reduced cost through smart shopping, just leave me a comment. I really just want people to get hair loss and hair loss remedy info on my blog. Not sales, sales, sales!

PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING CURCUMIN AND RESVERATROL AND USES THEREOF IN MEDICAL FIELD

The present invention deals with a pharmaceutical composition comprising curcumin and resveratrol and uses thereof in medical field. More specifically, the composition object of the invention can be advantageously employed for retarding ageing, for the prevention of vascular diseases, for the treatment and prevention of cancers as, for example, prostate carcinoma, skin diseases as psoriasis, and diseases of the piliferous system as hair loss.

Resveratrol is a polyphenol present in grapes, especially in its peel and in its seeds.

Curcumin is an extract of the root of the Curcumea Longa, a plant well known since a long time for its pharmaceutical properties. Nowadays curcumin is well known for its power of reducing cholesterol, its diuretic, choleretic, anti-inflammatory ability and for ameliorating the general conditions of patients treated with chemotherapy for neoplasia.

Particular feature of Curcumin is to belong to the capsaicinoids family, substances characterized by a pungent taste, similar to the one of pepper. From a point of view of molecular biology, the presence of a vanilloid receptor on the cell membrane and close to the mitochondrial structures can explain the induction of apoptosis or planned death of cells that would have become neoplastic. Moreover, in the Central Nervous System there are various receptors of capsaicinoids and this could explain the enhancement of the anti-aging action of resveratrol by curcumin.

The group of patients that has assumed only resveratrol didn't show any modification on the PSA, while the group treated with resveratrol and curcumin showed with great surprise a reduction, sometimes also relevant, in variable time periods. Moreover, during this testing, the patients treated with resveratrol and curcumin surprisingly showed positive improvements in the treatment of psoriasis and the attenuation and even a stop of the hair loss, a reduction of the hair graying and the rebirth of hair in bald areas sometimes even of the original color too.

Regarding its action on hair growth, even if not yet known, it is probably linked to the release of P substance. The growth and the pigmentation of the hair follicle would depend on mesenchymal-epithelium-neiroderic interactions not very well-known yet, where the P substance would stimulate the hair growth in vivo (RaIf Paus et al Investigation Labs, VoI 71, No 1 , p.135, 1994).

According to the invention, the pharmaceutical composition can comprise also vitamin E and/or wheat germs containing vitamin E. In fact, the powdered wheat germs are one of the richest natural resources of vitamin E (or tocopherol) and are one of the most effective antioxidants against free radicals, the aggressive substances that proliferate in our body because of the action of pollution, inaccurate diets, sun or just age.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the pharmaceutical composition can also comprise Capsaicin and/or the fruit of capsicum annum, which contains capsaicin. Capsicum annum, its powdered fruit in particular, is rich in important nutritional substances as flavonoids, vitamins (C, E, PP, and K), lecithins, mineral salts and capsaicin, an alkaloid responsible for its particular taste and for its activating properties. The extract of capsicum seems to be very effective in stimulating the vitality of the tissues and in activating the venous and capillary circulation.

In particular, in the composition according to this invention, the content of resveratrol can range from 3 to 6 mg; of Curcumin from 15 to 30 mg; of vitamin E from 50 to 100 mg; of vitamin C from 10 to 30 mg; of capsaicin from 2 to 5 mg; of powdered wheat germs from 50 to 450 mg.

The composition according to the invention can be presented in capsules, pills, solution and emulsion. If in capsules or pills, the suggested dosage is one or two units, before meals.

Further object of the present invention is the use of the composition for the cancer treatment, in particular the treatment of prostate carcinoma. Moreover, the composition according to the invention can be advantageously employed for the treatment of skin diseases, in particular of psoriasis, for the treatment and the prevention from ageing, for the treatment and the prophylaxis of diseases .of the piliferous system, in particular of alopecia.

Another object of the present invention is a combination comprising resveratrol and curcumin for the simultaneous, separate or sequential use in the treatment of cancer, as for example, the prostate carcinoma, in the treatment of skin diseases as psoriasis and for the prevention and the treatment of alopecia.

The invention in fact can vary in its dosages and in its components, adding other components similar to the one suggested, but without altering the conceptual basis of the invention.

In this testing, apart from a relevant anti-cancer action on hormone-insensible prostate neoplasia, an effect on some patients has also been the stop of the hair loss and the growth of hair, sometimes of the original color too. Therefore patients without any neoplastic disease, but affected by alopecia or hair loss, have been included to the testing.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

The group treated only with resveratrol didn't show any relevant variation, except from two cases that showed a slight decrease.

Capsures of 4 pills a day let to a reduction in the level of PSA after 60 days to 7.4 and then to 6.80. The patient suffered also of psoriasis of the scalp, that disappeared after the treatment and that by now, after 8 months has not reappeared. Case 6: 64 years old man affected by prostratitis that tried various treatments. After the treatment with Capsures, 6 capsules a day, after 30 days had no more perineal pain and had a hair growth.

Case 14: 75 years old man, operated 4 years before for radical prostatectomy, intolerant to hormonal treatment he has been treated with Capsures, 4 pills a day for 60 days. His PSA value reduced from 4.5 to 2.4.

As far as its action on hair is concerned, some patients, especially women that were considerably loosing their hair, after 20 days of treatment confirmed to have had a reduction in their hair loss. In bald patients, the hair, sometimes of the original color restarted to grow even after the ablation of the white hair.

CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

The compound containing just resveratrol as active agent (Resverage) didn't cause a reduction of the PSA value and this can be due to the low bioavailability of the molecule. In the cases of prostate carcinoma the efficacy of the association of resveratrol with curcumin can be due to a higher concentration in the circulation and therefore in the tissues explained by the lipophilia of the active elements of curcumin.

The association of resveratrol and curcumin seems to have a synergic effect that enhances the anti-inflammatory power of the two active elements. It is an essential activity because in the prostate carcinoma there is a phlogistic action caused by hyperincretion of enzymes as the cyclooxygenase 1 and 2.

As far as the action on hair is concerned, it is unquestionably due to the administration of the two combined active elements, since in the compound with just resveratrol no result has been shown and in the many cases in India and in Europe where Curcumin has been employed, any effect on hair has never been reported. The most important aspect rarely highlighted is that curcuminoids are capsaicinoid substances.

Those fibers, whose nerve cell is in the posterior roots, once stimulated release neuropeptides like the P substance, Neurokinin A and the Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide (CGRP). Experimental researches demonstrated that the desensibilization of those fibers leads to skin lesions localized in the cervical region of the rat. These experiments indicate the existence of a tropic function. It is probable that the loss of hair is a result of the deficit of neuropeptides released by the fibers that innervate the scalp.

Therefore it is possible that the administration of a substance that has as activity similar to capsaicin, as the Curcumin that metabolizes like an active curcumoid, can stimulate the sensorial fibers that have a tropic function, and that resveratrol has a vehicular function on the tissues. Therefore, the composition of the present invention is active on cases of hormone-insensible prostate carcinoma but in particular on hair, as our research has proven. The efficacy of the composition according to the present invention also depends on the great lyophilic properties of a capsaicinoid, curcumin on the anti-inflammatory effect of the two substances.

The interference of the hormonal action on hair loss is unquestionable, even if capsaicinoid-sensible sensory innervations are an ancestral phenomenon that does not depend on the hormonal mechanisms, but through a metabolic way different from the ordinary one. The growth and the pigmentation of the hair follicle seem to be controlled by epitelius-mesenchimoneuroechtodermmic interactions not very well known, but with an important role of the P substance on the hair growth in vivo.

Do You Believe Lasers Will Stop Hair Loss

There is FDA approval for lasers to help stimulate hair growth but most experts agree it's no miracle. I have a hair max laser comb and I would say it's bunk, but we all want hair. So if you want to get one, or any of the new lasers, I would buy them used on e-bay

clipped from www.hair-loss-cause.com A New Technique: Laser Hair Loss Treatment One type of laser hair loss treatment is the laser comb, which is a device that can be used by the individual in the comfort of his own home. The way the device works is that phototherapy is administered by combing the person’s hair with the device so that the hair follicles are stimulated in addition to the topical solutions that the individual might be using. These laser combs are often the best laser hair loss treatment to use after having a hair replacement surgery to promote the healing of the different hair transplants in the scalp. The combs are usually used in addition to the treatments that are done in the doctor’s office as a way to enhance the hair recovery.

Can Black Cumin Oil Cure Hair Loss?

clipped from www.angelfire.com Nigela Sativa can be compared to Echinacea, the well known immune booster but works in a very different way, which makes it even suitable for diseases of the immune system itself, eg. allergies; MS; TB; cancer; aids etc, where Echinacea could have detrimental effects. The oil of nigella sativa is so beneficial due to it's content of over a hundred components such as aromatic oils, trace elements, vitamins and enzymes. It contains 58% of essential fatty acids including omega 6 and omega 3. These are necessary for the forming of Prostaglandin E1 which balances and strengthens the immune system giving it the power to prevent infections and allergies and control cronic illnesses. Hair Loss Stroke the scalp thoroughly with lemon, leave for 15 minutes then wash and dry. Then apply ½ - 1 tsp nigella sativa oil.

Buy Dutasteride Online Without a Prescription

Buying Dutasteride Online for hair loss is easier than you thought. In most cases you can buy dutasteride online without a prescription and will only need to fill out certain health questions and your generic avodart will arrive.

I am one of those hair loss sufferers who does not wish to wait for FDA approval for hair loss drug when plenty of people around the world are having success using the drug. Avodart is the brand name for dutasteride but it is extremely expensive. I have heard of nor had any bad side affects from taking Dutasteride as opposed to avodart so I will stick with it.

If you are not familiar with the drug here is a little info about it.

While dutasteride is only officially approved to treat enlargement of the prostate gland (at a dose of 0.5mg/day), phase I and II clinical trials for dutasteride as a hair loss drug were also undertaken, but called off in late 2002. The reason the trials were called off is not publicly known. Industry sources speculate that Avodart would have been seen as too similar to Propecia to have proved profitable as a hair loss treatment. However, phase II results indicated that dutasteride 2.5mg/day generated a superior hair count to finasteride 5mg at 12 and 24 weeks.^[2]

In December 2006, GlaxoSmithKline started a new Phase III, six month study in Korea to test the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of a once-daily dose of dutasteride (0.5mg) for the treatment of male pattern baldness in the vertex region of the scalp (types IIIv, IV and V on the Hamilton-Norwood scale).^[3] The future impact that this study will have on the FDA's approval or disapproval of Avodart for the treatment of male pattern baldness in the United States is yet to be determined.

Dutasteride is also in development for Prostate cancer risk reduction. Wikipedia

So anyway, I've been buying Dutas from the same source for a year now and it comes on time with no questions asked. I've recently noticed that there is a discount for returning customers so my order gets cheaper and saves me a lot of money over other online pharmacies so I wanted to share this knowledge.

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Rupert Everett's Great Hair Transplants

I have been noticing Rupert Everett lately because he was having obvious hair transplants. So this article popped up today on yahoo about men and plastic surgery which featured Rupert Everett. I was surprised they noticed every possible procedure this guy had but nobody mentioned his hair loss and hair transplants. I think his hair looks great!

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We’ve always thought Rupert Everett was dreamy, particularly in “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” All the more reason why we were horrified upon finding this recent photo of him from his appearance on “The Martha Stewart Show.”

The picture on the left is just one year old. The photo on the right is from last week. Shocking!

The actor, currently starring in Blithe Spirit on Broadway, has obviously had a great deal of work done. Dr. Brian S. Glatt, founder of the Premier Plastic Surgery Center of New Jersey, thinks the 49-year-old actor had a facelift. “His cheeks are fuller and lifted, and his jawline and neck are pulled back and smoother,” says Dr. Glatt. His forehead is the work of Botox. “I think he’s definitely using it. He is very animated, and there are no lines visible on his forehead.”

But that’s not all—Dr. Glatt believes he also got a chin implant! “The shape and projection of the chin is drastically different. It’s much more pointed,” he says, estimating the combined surgeries to have cost around $25,000.

“This is an impressive difference,” says Dr. Glatt. “He looks 10 years younger!” Um, no, he looks like a scary robot! A little botox is maybe one thing, but our beloved Everett is totally unrecognizable! In fact, he looks kind of like Bruce Jenner, another awful surgery victim.

We can’t help but notice a surge in plastic faces amongst Hollywood men like John Travolta, Ray Liotta and Mickey Rourke. Nicholas Cage’s hair plugs also make us shudder. Why not go the route of Bruce Willis and shave it all off and make that your look? No one thinks you miraculously grew hair after balding for 20 years. The plugs are worse than a bad toupee.

Do you think it’s somehow worse when men receive cosmetic procedures?