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 9, 2011

The Psychological Truth Of Dropping Head Hair

By Eugene Yeng


The psychological impact of dropping hair can hit everyone very hard. It makes no difference if you are male, female old or young, losing your hair can be such a knock to the confidence that even just the thought of it can make the strongest person quake in their shoes.

Obviously, hair falls out as part of the natural growing cycle. Once a hair has emerged from the hair follicle, it grows for a certain number of days and then is shed so that another hair can grow. It is thought that up to a hundred hairs a day can be lost this way.

If you are actually pulling at your hair with a brush, or washing it by rubbing it vigorously, then you will notice more hair falling out. This can be more obvious if the hair has been tied back tightly, or if it has not been washed or brushed in a while. Worrying about this hair loss is a waste of time because it is all natural and normal.

But people often know when the hair loss is more than just this normal shedding. Clumps of hair can come out in the hair brush. Or, a lot of hair can be found on the pillow in the morning. It can even be possible that more of your scalp shows through in certain places on your head.

It is possible that even this hair loss can be normal and not need to be treated. If the loss of the hair is as a result of a poor lifestyle, or a more stressed than usual event, then hair loss can go hand in hand with the stress. In this case, it is not the hair loss which needs to be treated, but the lifestyle.

It can turn into a self fulfilling prophecy: You notice your hair falling out, so you worry. But because you are worried, more hair falls out, which makes you worried. The psychological impact of hair dropping out can all build up into some sort of terrible cycle. The only way out of this vicious circle seems to be to be bald and not have any hair to worry about!

It is as if our bodies are telling us that they are so stressed that they can no longer be bothered with trivial things like growing the hair on our heads! If this is the case and you often find yourself tense or if you know that you are going through a stressful time in your life, then it is very important to find time to de-stress.

Get to sleep on time, don't just sitting around in front of the television watching the news. Eat a healthy snack, do not just pop around the corner and buy a chocolate bar for lunch. Get out into the sunshine for twenty minutes. A lot of little things can help to bring the larger picture back into our lives. We can then step back and see that in the larger scheme of things, a little stress is often a good thing and we are well able to cope with all that life has to offer us.




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