What causes hair loss?

Male Pattern Baldness (MPB) is a genetic trait. It’s called Androgenetic Alopecia. It’s inherited from your family. If the men in your family are showing a bald spot on the crown, it’s likely you will too.

This is an issue men have been dealing with for centuries. According to legend, Julius Caesar invented the laurel leaf wreath to cover his receding hairline.

Too bad Julius didn’t have access to Provillus in the days of the Roman Empire.

MPB results from genetic traits, and hormonal causes. Provillus can’t change your genetic history, but it can help with the hormonal causes.

DHT is the hormone involved in hair loss

DHT (dihydrotestostrone) is derived from androgen, a male hormone. As the androgen circulates through the bloodstream, it is converted to DHT by the enzyme, 5-alpha reductase. DHT tends to bind to hair follicle receptors,
causing the follicles to sprout thinner and thinner hairs until nothing regrows, and the follicles eventually wither away.

The life cycle of normal hair growth

Normally, hair has three phases of growth:

  • Anagen – The growth phase, lasts for two to six years. Usually 90% of the hair is in growth phase.
  • Catagen -- A transient phase lasting a few weeks. The hair becomes thinner and the follicle starts shrinking.
  • Telogen – The thinned hairs fall off to make way for new hair. This lasts for two to four months.

When excess DHT is in the bloodstream, it shortens the Anagen, or growth phase, and causes premature shrinkage of the follicles. Because the DHT is bound to the follicle, often the hair will not re-grow normally.


Provillus helps block DHT from strangling your hair follicles.

Minoxidil, the ingredient clinically proven, and approved by the FDA for re-growing your hair, inhibits DHT. This powerful active ingredient works in your hair follicles.

We add a nourishing blend of natural herbs and minerals to the formula for men. These herbs and minerals support and provide nourishment to nourish your scalp and hair.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Proven Strategies That Reverse Losing Hair And Rapidly Increase Hair Regrowth

By Betty Hamilton


Typical loss of hair in men, called alopecia, is a typical feature in numerous males with advancing years. The University of Maryland Clinic guesstimates that about a quarter of all males start to lose hair by the point they are 30, and that by the point they reach sixty, they either have a definite bald pattern or are totally bald. Although growing older is the most well know reason for men's hair loss, emotional problems can also cause early hair loss. Though most guys accept balding in their stride, one or two are worried about how they look and therefore bear curative procedure.

Minoxidil helps remove male pattern balding and is an over the counter product the FDA approves. The liquid or foam versions can be found in two strengths, and both need rubbing onto the scalp, twice daily, to avoid any more baldness and to stimulate expansion of new hair. Based mostly on Mayo Clinic research, new hair that grows with minoxidil treatment could be more thin but usually it could be acceptable to cover hairless areas. Minoxidil causes hair expansion, but only as it is applied.

Finasteride can be applied as a mediciation to limit male-pattern baldness. Finasteride is administered orally on a daily basis. It keeps you from losing more hair and causes more hair expansion. It might take one or two months to work, per the Mayo Clinic. MedlinePlus suggest that if hair doesn't grow back in 12 months, then you almost certainly won't be helped if you keep on taking finasteride.

Finasteride stops testosterone from changing in dihydrotestosterone, which is the hormone that makes follicles smaller and causes men to lose hair. Finasteride may lead to reduced sexual urge and performance though Mayo Clinic asserts otherwise.

Operative strategies like hair replacement and scalp minimization are employed to heal baldness. When a hair transplant is done, a cosmetic surgeon removes skin plugs that have a few hairs from areas of the head that contain hair, and implant them where baldness is. Hair transplants take time and can be dear. This may hurt a little.

The process that involves the removal of hairless portions of the scalp and replacing it with parts of the scalp that can still grow hair in order to fill the opening is sometimes known as scalp reduction. Both operations are risky, since there might be infection and scars.




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