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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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Suggestions For Treating High Blood Pressure

By Owen Jones


Gaining weight and doing less exercise is a characteristic pattern of life for middle-aged individuals of both sexes. When we are young, our metabolisms can deal with most things we throw at it but we start our jobs on the bottom rung and perhaps even have a young family to take care of. This all burns up our calories quite naturally.

However, as we become older our metabolism slows down; we may have a manager's job and our children leave home. This all has the result of calories being stockpiled on our waists and thighs. However, there are a couple of things that can be done about it, and it basically boils down to taking more exercise and taking care of what we eat.

This usually has the effect of giving us hypertension, which is what most individuals call high blood pressure. The point of this piece is to offer some tips for dealing with high blood pressure. The fact is that if you do nothing about the condition, you will be taking medication for the remainder of your life.

That is OK, if you do not mind taking tablets, yet most people would rather avoid taking medication every day.

So the first thing to do is moderate your weight to what it should be. If you do not know what this is, you will have to enquire of a dietitian or your GP. The handy thing about the majority of of the things you ought to do is that they are all connected with decent health.

For instance, if you are flabby, you require more exercise and more exercise will also help lower your blood pressure. Two birds with one stone!

It does not take a lot to make a huge difference, if you do nothing at all now. Walking for thirty minutes twice a day will make a colossal difference to your body if you do not walk anywhere now. Strolling will have a knock-on effect. It will make you lose weight, it will bring down your blood pressure and it will massage your internal organs naturally. Swimming works in a similar manner.

Reducing your consumption of salt is a good way of losing weight, yet you do have to seek professional advice on this subject because salt is a vital part of the human diet. However, if you eat too much salt (normally by eating too much processed food), you can change the situation by using herbs and spices instead of salt to augment the flavour of your food.

Other facets of life that increase blood pressure which do you no use at all anyway are smoking, drinking to excess regularly and permitting yourself to become stressed out. Curing these three habits will have the impact of decreasing your blood pressure.

Taking any of these tips for countering high blood pressure on board will improve your life and decrease your blood pressure, but you may have to do all of them to get it down if you have a serious problem.




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