Pulling hairs just short of breaking them or plucking hairs can stimulate new growth, though its effects are not very impressive. Such powerful skin irritants as cayenne pepper or, even more powerful and effective, dinitrochlorobenzene or dinitrochlorophenol, often cause hair regrowth when rubbed into the scalp. This is probably at least partly due to histamine […]
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Inositol, a B vitamin, is a natural sugar known as muscle sugar and is a cell membrane stabilizer and antioxidant which has a protective effect on hair follicles, perhaps by protecting them from membrane damage caused by oxidized cholesterol in the scalp, or from destruction by clock-triggered lysosomes (proteolytic enzymes). Lysosomal membranes are principally comprised […]
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… Just as the pigment of the hair is destroyed by phagocytes, so also the atrophy of other organs of the body, in old age, is very frequently due to the action of devouring cells which I have called macrophages. —Elie Metchnikoff, The Prolongation of Life (1908) Male pattern baldness is an example of an […]
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Selenium, a mineral, is an important trace element in immune system function. It has been found in experimental animals to act as an anti-carcinogen and anti-mutagen (can prevent DNA mutations—undesired alterations of your DNA master blueprint in the presence of some mutagenic agents). Selenium is an essential part of your enzyme called glutathione peroxidase, which […]