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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Friday, September 16, 2011

Granola A-Go-Go

By Beth Cooper


Lots of people often skip their breakfast, but are you aware that a good breakfast is actually the most important chow time of anyone's whole day? Filling up with nutrition to start helps to pump up your metabolism and can keep you sharp all throughout the day.

As it is considered the most crucial chow of the day, it is important that it's also a healthy meal filled with all the vitamins and minerals that you can need for the day. Biotin, often known as vitamin B7, is one of these essential vitamins that our bodies must get more of each day. It helps us maintain the cellular respiration levels and it can help us feel strong all the day long.

VITAMIN B7 FOUND IN FOODS

Biotin foods are everywhere around us, you only need to figure out what those foods are and how we should cook up yummy meals with them. In the following, you'll find a perfect biotin-rich recipe that has a day's value of biotin food.

The following recipe makes around 8-12 great granola bars, depending on how big or small you choose to cut them. Making these muesli bars will most likely take fifteen minutes to get ready and twenty-five minutes baking in the oven.

MUESLI INGREDIENTS

* 2 cups oats, rolled

* 1 cup of almonds, chopped

* 2/3 cup local honey

* 1 cup raisins (you can mix in dates or prunes)

* 1 cup unsweetened apple sauce

* 1 tsp cinnamon, ground

* tbsp vanilla extract

GETTING READY

* Preheat your oven to 325 Fahrenheit.

* In an 8x8-inch glass baking pan, line the sides and bottom with baking paper.

* In a large bowl, stir together honey, cinnamon, applesauce & extract of vanilla. Now mixed, add in oats, stirring until all oats are completely coated. Mix in almonds and raisins until they're coated, too.

* Scoop the mixture into the baking pan. Press your muesli throughout the pan, making sure that it's spread across the entire baking pan. Pack the mixture across the pan.

* Put your baking pan into your oven and bake for twenty-five minutes. Remove the pan from your oven allowing it to cool. If using a metal baking pan, you can even place it into your freezer for a few minutes. If you're using a glass pan, please do not put it into the freezer! You might risk breaking the glass pan, and most importantly you could risk losing your granola bar snacks!

* After the mixture is down to room temperature, remove from pan by pulling on the wax paper. Using a knife, slice into bars however large you want.




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