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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Monday, October 31, 2011

Hair Loss In Women: 2 Hurdles On Your Way To A Cure

By Adam J Bradley


Zinc is a trace mineral that has many important roles in the human body. All of these roles are essential for the growth of thick, healthy hair. Zinc helps the body reproduce cells, absorb vitamins (yes, even those all important vitamins for hair loss), controlling hormones and the synthesis of proteins.

Don't Hesitate, Do Something About It Perhaps the most important advice you will learn is to not doubt yourself. If you think there is a problem, take action. If you know there is a problem, why have you waited this long to do something about it? Here is a fundamental lesson you need to know about your body. When something is wrong internally, it has a domino effect. A mild problem leads to other problems, which in turn double the intensity of the initial problem. Confusing? Possibly, but the human body is a very complex machine. Chances are you did not start out with a severe hormone imbalance leading to hair loss. Chances are there was another problem, possibly a couple of problems.

At first, they caused no secondary issues but over time they complicated your natural body functions. To make up for this burden, your body overproduced hormones and, long story short, you ended up with hair fall. The hair fall could have been prevented long before the first hair every shed if the problem was addressed in its beginning stages. Even now that the problem is more evident, it is still never too late to stop it. Keep in mind, the more out of control the hormone balance become the faster your hair will fall out. Doing something about it today just means you are that much closer to better looking hair.

In The Beginning Treat Your Hair As Gently As You Would A Baby's Nurturing your hair back to health is a gradual process. This means the hair all over your head will still be in a weakened state for some time. This is when you must be as careful and as gentle as you would with a new born baby's hair. Hair loss does not mean you have no style options. However, you want to make sure you do nothing to aggravate the situation or you will lose all hair fall control. For example, brushing the hair in a "ripping or tearing" manner will not only pull out too much hair, but it also injures the hair follicle and inhibits the healing from your hair loss remedies.

With normal consumption of zinc through eating food being hit and miss at best, then getting zinc through supplementation seems to be the obvious choice. Whilst most zinc supplements aren't primarily considered a thinning hair product they do help against normal hair loss and aid growth. Another option to make sure that your body and hair get all the zinc they need is to take a hair growth supplement that not only contains zinc but also other vitamins for hair loss, such as b6 and biotin. This shouldn't be difficult as all of the best hair loss treatment products contain a range of vitamins and minerals that will give you luscious, sexy hair.

Consider A Pro-Healing Scalp Environment At Night The last of these 3 hair fall control tips is very similar to #2. All night long, your head rests on your pillow. Your scalp and hair spend more time in contact with your pillow case and bed than any other item throughout the rest of the day. Why not turn this into an ultra-healing opportunity? Your first step, try a satin pillow case. Satin allows the hair and head to glide over the fabric versus traditional pillow cases which may tug a bit. It is an almost insignificant amount of tugging, but it can add up after an eight hour nap.

If your friend's are not showering you with this kind of support, it is time to reevaluate the situation. Unfortunately, it is all too common that our friends themselves are the biggest hurdles we must overcome. Issues like women and hair loss involve a lot of insecurities. You overcoming your problem may make your friends increasingly aware of their own unresolved insecurities. They may choose to use your success as a roadmap or to try to spoil your success and derail your progress. The later is unfortunate, but it is also a fact of life. You can cut out their negativity and succeed or you can give into it and fail. The choice is entirely yours. In fact, the choice is always yours no matter what challenge you face. The ability to cure hair loss and re-grow hair is yours if you can stay on course. Whether it is patience, peer pressure or something else entirely, the sooner you recognize your personal obstacles the better you can arm yourself against it.




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