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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Sunday, August 7, 2011

A Look At Alternative Therapies

By Anju Mathur, MD


Alternative medicine physicians often are the ones who pioneer techniques that eventually become mainstream. Not satisfied with the results they obtain from traditional medicine, these are the people who continue to study and search for methods that will handle the ills of their patients. Many therapies that are considered alternative medicine are not really new, but have been in use for years.

Chelation therapy has been in use for decades. Antioxidants are introduced via IV drip to remove toxins and heavy metals from the bloodstream. More recently other IV therapies have been introduced. The advantage of IV drips is that they bypass problems with digestion. The remedies go directly to the blood, whereas a pill or liquid taken by mouth may not be absorbed.

A successful treatment for flu, pneumonia, mononucleosis, Lyme disease, tiredness, anxiety and stomach infections has been IV drips of high doses of vitamin C, B Complex, magnesium, trace minerals and glutathione. This is called immune enhancement therapy. It is also very beneficial for patients undergoing surgery, both before and after the surgery and has been used to treat cancer and other chronic illnesses.

Viral infections succumb to IV drips of high doses of vitamin C, 25,000 to 100,000 mg. Patients who have Epstein Barr virus, shingles, herpes and often some types of cancer can benefit from Vitamin C IV Therapy.

Glutathione Therapy, delivered by IV drip, is given to patients who require high amounts of antioxidants. This would include patients with Parkinson's disease, acute viral infections and heart conditions.

Some patients cannot usefully absorb nutrients from food and thus supplements taken by mouth are of no use. This causes nutritional deficiencies. An effective treatment in these cases is Amino Acid IV Therapy.

A very important IV therapy is one that removes plaque from the arterial walls. Phospholipids, which are the building blocks of cell walls, can be given intravenously and these little substances will clean out the arteries. Since they build the membranes of the cells, they control what goes into a cell, and protect cells from foreign substances. But as a person gets older, the body stops producing sufficient quantities of these phosopholipids. This technique is call PlaqueX Therapy, and it supplies the needed phospholipids that the body has failed to produce.

Many benefits result from PlaqueX therapy. It lowers cholesterol and tryglyceride levels and enhances circulation. Not only does it improve the activity of the heart and circulatory system, but it can increase kidney function, reduce angina attacks, and improve tolerance for exercise.

Since side effects from pharmaceuticals can result in such adverse conditions, the big advantage of natural therapies is that there are no side effects.




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