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, October 21, 2011

Coping With Alopecia

By Owen Jones


Hair loss and particularly rapid hair loss is a very difficult thing to deal with - for both sexes but especially for women. However, you do not have to just roll over and give up, if it is happening to you. The reason for this is that there are plenty of explanations for hair loss and some are treatable.

Because of this fact, if you start to lose your hair rapidly, then you ought to go to see your physician and discover the reason for it. This will give your physician a opportunity to help you before the condition has gone too far. However, baldness tends to run in families, so if your family has a history of early baldness, there is a decent chance that you will follow suit.

Pattern baldness or pattern alopecia are the names given to hereditary baldness, but other variations can be only temporary and these are the ones that your physician may be able to help you with.

The most noticeable type of baldness in society is male pattern baldness, which gets its name because it follows a pattern, which in most cases is thinning at the temples in adulthood, followed by thinning on the crown of the head and a receding hairline.

The most noticeable sort of baldness in society is male pattern baldness, which gets its name because it follows a pattern, which in most cases is thinning at the temples in maturity, followed by thinning on the crown of the head and a receding hairline.

This is an inevitable and unstoppable kind of baldness that most men will experience. You can rub on what you like, but there is nothing that has been proven to be able to undo it. If you want to hide male pattern baldness, shave your head as soon as it starts and purchase a good wig. That way there will not be a colossal change in middle age which will make friends wonder.

Female alopecia is more distressing, but the good thing is that it is more socially acceptable for women to wear wigs. The first step though is the same as for men - find out why you have gone bald, remedy it and the hair might grow back.

Baldness in women is more likely to be reversible than baldness in men. Female baldness is more probable to be the result of illness or malnutrition. The danger signs for permanent hair loss in women is if the hair loss is on the sides of the head, because this is the strongest place for hair in men and women, which is why bald men normally still have a rim of hair about the sides and back of the head.




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