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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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Traditional Home Remedies For Hair Loss

By Owen Jones


Everyone has concerns about the state of their hair at some time in their life and wonders whether they will go bald ahead of time or unnaturally. Most men recognize that they will go bald one day due to male pattern baldness, but women can go bald too and it is more upsetting for them.

Most people think that hair care should start early on in life. Women definitely take care of their hair from an early age, but traditionally men did not especially in northern Europe.

Mediterranean and Asian men on the other hand do take care of their hair from an early age. Whether this is why Mediterranean and Asian men are inclined to retain more of their hair longer, I do not know, but it could be.

Anyway, northern European boys are starting to take care of their skin and their hair, so we shall find out in a decade or two. There are lots of products on the market that boast to be able to take care of hair and some even say that they are able to restore hair loss.

There are also long-established, natural, home remedies for hair loss. One of the major factors cited by doctors for hair loss is poor circulation in the scalp, which starves the hair follicles of oxygen, eventually killing them.

If this is the case, then there is no reason why frequent massage may not help. Massage is well-known for raising the circulation of blood, so perhaps a frequent scalp massage is (part of) the answer. It is absolutely true that a trip to the barber's or a massage parlour in the East frequently means a short scalp massage.

A lot of people have faith in in the power of some oils to restore hair before it had suffered too much to survive. Before the Seventies, many men rubbed bay rum into their hair and scalp as a tonic, but it is seldom seen nowadays.

Tea tree oil at 5% concentration is very well-liked because of its antibiotic and antimicrobial properties. Tea tree oil can clear up infestations of head lice, yeast infections (and others) and dandruff, all of which may lead to or be a sign of immanent hair loss. Other oils used are olive oil and lavender oil.

Aloe Vera is utilized in Asia for almost all skin and hair problems. It grows wild there and is cultivated in most gardens as well. In the West, you may need to use preparations containing aloe vera, but if you can acquire some leaves, crush them and rub the jelly into your scalp and hair.

Some people believe in the remarkable curative powers of honey. Honey can be massaged into the hair and scalp about an hour before you shower. Honey might be a bit thick for some people, so you could thin it down with olive oil. Some people believe that cinnamon and ginger can help restore hair, so you could add one or both of them to olive oil or to a rinse.




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