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Activate Your Macrophages for Hair Regrowth

Cory — Sun, 20 May 2007 02:35:34 +0000

Searching through my back catalog of half-baked, not-yet published posts, I came across this one… which is strangely similar to the news about hair regeneration in mice that came out this week. According to the article abstract from in the Journal of Cell Biology researchers led by Nao Osaka observed a similar phenomena in mice with skin wounds. The critical factor seems to be a wound-activated protein kinase called ASK1. “ASK1 was necessary for the up-regulation of a number of immune response factors in wounded skin, including many that are expressed in macrophages.”

Again, all this research is in early days. So, give yourself a head wound at your own risk.

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Activate Your Macrophages for Hair Regrowth

Hair Loss Buddy: Regrowing Hair

Cory — Mon, 22 May 2006 16:29:18 +0000

Hair Loss Buddy has been trying Beta Sitosterol to regrow hair, and he’s chronicling his results.

Nearly two weeks into my experiment with beta sitosterol, as I expected no hair growth to report yet. It will take a few months before I see any new hair developing. However, I can’t be sure but it seems the rate at which my hair is shedding has decreased, obviously good news. And as for my concern about decreased labido, no worries there — at all. Slightly strange side effects… my voice seems to have become a little deeper and my hair does seem a little greasier than normal.

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Hair Loss Buddy: Regrowing Hair

Stem Cell Treatment for Hair Regrowth

Cory — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:34:00 +0000

It’s a hair replacement kind of week here at Baldiness. The Independent serves up a story about using stem-cell technology to treat baldness. From the article:

Hair is grown by the dermal papilla cells in skin. These can be removed and grown in a laboratory dish. Normally,these lab cells lose their ability to grow hairs, but add keratinocyte stem cells to the dermal papilla cells and the new cells are able to grow hairs when injected back into a bald head. Because no drugs are involved, and the human cells are unmodified, there are no side effects. New growth should become evident after three months. It should work on people too bald for a hair transplant and on women, whose hair thins out rather than being lost in a receding hairline.

Now, I tend to poo-poo hair replacement therapies, but something about this intrigues me. It doesn’t have the feeling of snake oil, like so many “treatments” do. I’ll be interested to see how this develops. Intercytex is the company behind the research.

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Stem Cell Treatment for Hair Regrowth

The Hair Chair

Cory — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:05:55 +0000

Here’s a new one on me. According to this story there’s a new way to re-grow hair. All you have to do is sit down… in an ELECTRIC CHAIR!

OK, I’ve got your attention. Here’s the copy from WNEP in Pennsylvania.

Combating baldness is practically an industry unto itself. The littany of products and services aimed at getting peoples’ thinning hair thickly restored is an impressive one.

One distributor in Wichita believes he has a revolutionary item to restore hair simply. All you have to do is sit down in his chair.

The technology behind this chair has been used on chemotherapy patients for years. Several clinical studies show a high success rate in retaining hair and the regrowth of hair.

It works by using an electric pulse, a non-invasive electro-static pulse. Those low-frequency energy waves are the key. But don’t expert results overnight.

Try once a week for 12 minutes for 4 to 8 months. Then you might notice changes in your hair, even though you’ll feel nothing when you sit in the chair.

Its makers say it is safe, powered by a 12 volt battery.

What will they think of next? When will the bald stand up and say, “Hey! Stop jerkin’ my chain, you hairy monkeys! First lasers, now electric chairs! WTF! We’re bald, not stupid?”

Oh, yeah. I know when this nonsense will stop. When the bald stop shelling out cold hard cash for crap like this. So, my fellow Bald Men (I use this term in a gender inclusive kind of way.) it’s time to exhibit some self respect. Tell ‘em to keep their crap.

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The Hair Chair