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 9, 2011

Startling Facts About Women's Hair Loss

By Eric Huff


How many times have you been watching television and seen a commercial promoting some product that is supposed to reverse baldness in men? Did you ever see that one in which the "solution" was to actually spray a cover-up to make the hair look thicker? No rocket science involved to easily see that it's all about hair loss suffered by men. The fact about women's hair loss is they do suffer from it and experience the same, if not more, emotional trauma. Did you know that the incidence of hair loss in women is just as much as it is in the male population? In this article, we'll talk more about this issue and give just some of the reasons for it.

The most obvious reason that a woman might lose her hair is to cancer therapy treatments. Chemotherapy has long been known to cause this condition. Fortunately, there is so much help and support available to women in this category. There are even charities that are devoted to helping women find wigs that are made out of real hair so that they can look as "natural" as possible while they wait for their hair to start growing back on its own.

Many women may already know that the time during pregnancy can often have a noticeable impact on their hair. While some women enjoy increased hair growth, others deal with the opposite. What often happens with the more hair growth is that it will fall out pretty quickly after her baby is born.

This is normal, but for first-time pregnancies it can be a bit shocking. But in time, after hormones and other body chemistries even-out, then the hair will also go back to the former state of normalcy. So just don't get stressed about it because it's all normal and not permanent.

Women's hair loss is also largely due to her genetic background. It just depends on where the hair loss occurred in your family, but your doctor will be able to make a good estimation about the likelihood of it affecting you. The hard thing about this situation is that there's nothing that can be done about it, at least not yet. Women who fall into this category suffer from high levels of humiliation. These women have no choice but to try to hide their condition, and hair transplants may be not be a good option, either. Women's hair loss gets no where near the same amount of awareness as men's hair loss. The sad part is that the same numbers of women have hair loss as do men. This article has not even scratched the surface regarding the causes of hair loss seen in women. But we wanted to discuss some of the more commonly seen reasons.




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