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

Women's Hair Loss - What Are The Reasons For It?

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? Men's hair loss is the major advertising thrust on TV and other media. This is a problem because women suffer from hair loss too. In fact, women's hair loss happens more frequently than men's hair loss and there are more causes for it too. We'll cover just some of the primary reasons for women's hair loss.

Medical treatments for cancer are one definite cause for this condition in women. Thinning and loss of hair due to chemotherapy is a well-documented side-effect. There is just a ton of written material available designed to help women deal with this type of hair loss as well as cope with it. One great gesture for women concerns the existence of charity groups that collect wigs made of real hair, and then they supply them to women to wear while they wait for their hair to return to normal.

Pregnancy is another condition that can have a huge impact on a woman's hair. The effect is that some experience rapid hair growth, but for other women the opposite happens. This is quite common after the baby is born when all of the extra hair that grew in while the woman was pregnant starts to be shed.

It can be quite alarming, especially if this is your first pregnancy. However once the body chemistry and hormones return to normal then things will settle down with the hair. So just don't get stressed about it because it's all normal and not permanent.

Women's hair loss is not talked about, openly in the media, anywhere near as much as it is for men. What is well-known is that women have hair loss issues in many different contexts.

Most of them cannot be controlled. They have to do with hormone levels and family medical history. There are permanent conditions of hair loss, while others are temporary in nature. If you notice your hair is thinning, lately, best to make that doctor's appointment and find out what's happening.




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