Category: hair loss

Israeli Students Identify Compound to Prevent Hair Loss in Cancer Patients

Israeli biology students are researching a new way to prevent hair loss caused by chemotherapy in an effort to produce it on an industrial scale. Students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have been attempting to synthetically produce decursin, a hair loss deterrent, with the hopes of incorporating it into products such as shampoos, creams, and more. The team…


Study Shows Bald Males May Have a Higher Risk of Heart Disease, Some Ideas to Help

In modern society, many people suffer from hair loss. Studies have shown that hair loss is not only related to scalp health but may also be associated with coronary heart disease risk. Chen Hsin Hung, a Traditional Chinese Medicine physician at Taiwan’s Joyful HAN Chinese Medicine Clinic, wrote an article to remind the public to…


TCM practitioner: Moderate Intake of 5 Types of Foods for Healthy Hair Growth

Hair health is closely related to a balanced diet, according to TCM practice. As we are getting close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, let us have a look at a TCM doctor’s advice, which says that we should take care not to consume excessive amounts of five kinds of food if we want to maintain healthy…


Missing Strands?

Hair loss is often associated with men and aging, but it can happen to women and children, too. Many people have thinning hair or bald areas on their head. You can lose hair slowly or quickly. Whether or not your hair will eventually grow back depends on the cause. A family history of baldness, medical…


Have You Experienced Pandemic-Driven Hair Loss?

By Dr. Harwin For most people, hair loss is a physical and psychological affair. Balding is noticeable, and so are its effects on the sufferer. Men describe hair loss as an unwanted and upsetting experience that can plummet body image. Women report even greater negative consequences including diminished body image, lower self-esteem, and poorer quality…


Eating for Healthier Hair

All mammals grow hair, but the head hair of humans is unique. It’s one of the first things we notice about people. Unlike eyes, noses, and other prominent facial features, we have significant control over our hair. We can cut or color it with ease, creating a whole new look on a whim. Your hair…


Study Links COVID-19 Infection to Excessive Hair Loss

As the COVID-19 virus swept the globe, people got sick, then they got better, and then … they started losing their hair.  That was a delayed aftereffect that no one saw coming.  Stress levels were already running high with the lockdowns, illness, crazy mandates, medications, rushed vaxxes, and unrelenting controversy surrounding the pandemic.  Add to…


Avoid Hair Loss With a Simple Change in Your Food Choices

Thinning hair has long been linked to the aging process.  The older you get, the more likely you will experience at least some hair loss.  Of course, it can also occur thanks to genetics, various medical conditions, and even chronic stress. But, now a study is linking hair loss to obesity, or rather the high levels…


6 Ways to Reverse Hair Loss

A condition plaguing over 80 million men and women in the United States alone, hair loss a condition that not only indicates possible health issues but can also profoundly diminish quality of life. Here we provide in-depth, actionable information that can provide hair loss sufferers with tools they need to reverse hair loss Hair loss,…


If Hair Loss Can Devastate US Psychologically, We Don’t Know What Adversity Is

Commentary Possibly you didn’t know Jimmy Stewart wore a toupee. Or left Hollywood to serve in World War II, not in a safe PR job but piloting B-24 Liberators over Germany, rose to colonel from private in just four years, and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. Or, if you are the voice of youth, who…