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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Sunday, October 23, 2011

How To Get Hair To Defy Old Age

By Owen Jones


All women and a growing number of men want shiny hair. This is because shiny hair is thought of as belonging to a healthy, vivacious person. The fact is that as we age, men's hair falls out and women's hair becomes more brittle. So how container you get age-defying hair?

There are a few tricks of the trade, some of which are pretty obvious when you give them a bit of consideration. The first and most important tip is not to more than wash your hair. Your head produces oil to protect your hair and it does that because it thinks that hair is necessary to help it control the temperature of the brain.

All right, these days we can put a hat on or erect a parasol, but it takes the body a long time to mutate. The purpose is to not wash all the oil off your hair very frequently. You want to wash the dust off your hair but not all the oil.

Consequently, massage the shampoo into your scalp and not into your hair. As the shampoo runs off your hair it will take the dust off your hair with it but just some of the oil. This makes a huge difference.

The tip above is the most important bit of advice because it applies to whatever shampoo you buy, but the next tip applies to what shampoo to purchase. Do not skimp on shampoo if you want nice-searching hair.

Do you remember the days when you had to wash your hair, rinse it and then put on conditioner and then rinse again? Well those actually were the good old days as far as hair is concerned..

These all-in-ones clean on the principle that the conditioner will not work in the presence of oil and the shampoo will not activate if there is no oil.

This means that on the first wash, half the shampoo is wasted, but the shampoo has to scour your hair for the second wash (conditioner) to work. On the second wash the conditioner does its work, but the shampoo half goes down the drain having done nothing.

In other words, your inexpensive bottle of shampoo with conditioner costs two times as much as you paid for it, so why not buy different shampoo and conditioner in the first place?

The combined shampoo and conditioner is a con because it makes you think that you are saving time and thereby getting something for nothing. You are not and it is scouring your hair.

The best advice you can get for your hair is to buy a mild shampoo without conditioner. By all means buy one that says that it is better suited to your type of hair if you like. Then do some research on your hair sort and natural colour on the Net and make your own conditioner or buy one.

People used to use vinegar, beer, dandelions and all sorts of items and one that I have recently come across is Butterfly Pea. Do not get guiled by adverts and time saving if you really like your hair




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