2018-08-09 06:57:382018-08-15 09:05:46Another Donor Site Depletion from Too Many FUE Grafts Taken
Another Hair Loss Following Pregnancy
I have experenced hair loss after each one of my pregnecies. I have three kids,while I was pregnant my hair was fine. I have seeked medical advise, I was told stop having kids. Can you tell me if hair loss after pegnancy will ever correct itself, in other words will it grow back?
Some doctor’s amaze me with ridiculous comments like, “Stop having kids”. Hair loss with pregnancy is common and most women who experience it, like you, will see the process reverse within the first year after birth of the child. Have as many kids as you want. The hair loss, unfortulately, may recur with each pregnancy on a non-permanent basis, unless you have genetic female balding.
I answered a similar question about a week ago, found here.
Another Patient from Turkey with 4000 Grafts (Photo)
Another patient with finasteride, minoxidil and microneedling 9 months (photo)
2020-09-02 03:56:102020-08-13 10:01:15Another patient with finasteride, minoxidil and microneedling 9 months (photo)
Antioxidants and Free Radicals
Although this post isn’t hair loss related and it is about an article that is nearly 2 years old, this is an important read for those who buy into the antioxidant solution to anti-aging, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and the like. The question raised here is whether you can get these antioxidants from pills or do you have to get them from fresh fruits and vegetables?
Snippet from the article:
Cranberry capsules. Green tea extract. Effervescent vitamin C. Pomegranate concentrate. Beta carotene. Selenium. Grape seed extract. High-dose vitamin E. Pine bark extract. Bee spit.
You name it, if it’s an antioxidant, we’ll swallow it by the bucket-load. According to some estimates around half the adults in the US take antioxidant pills daily in the belief they promote good health and stave off disease. We have become antioxidant devotees. But are they doing us any good? Evidence gathered over the past few years shows that at best, antioxidant supplements do little or nothing to benefit our health. At worst, they may even have the opposite effect, promoting the very problems they are supposed to stamp out.
Full text at NewScientist — The antioxidant myth: a medical fairy tale
Anti-Graying Pill — Go Away Gray
Hi,
I have recently come across with this product: Go Away Gray
Your remarks will be appreciated.
I have no experience with Go Away Gray (and this is the first I’ve read of it), but I invite my readers to comment if they do have experience with this pill that promises to make gray hair disappear. What I could find on it (aside from a ton of sites trying to sell it) was that the pill contains catalase, and a study from last year did find that gray hair was caused by the body’s lack of catalase production as we age. That isn’t enough to convince me just yet, but I am open to learning more about this and reading some actual reviews. You can read more about last year’s gray/catalase stories here and here.
CBS stations around the US picked up the story and ran it in their local markets, causing at least one TV critic to dig a little deeper into why the product is getting all this publicity (see here).
2010-05-13 12:56:542010-05-14 06:40:20Anti-Graying Pill — Go Away Gray
Antiandrogens
Dear Sir,
I am 32 years old male suffering from male pattern baldness. I ask you can I take antiandrogens for treatment of baldness? Looking forward to receive your answer.
Antiandrogen is a group of medications that block different forms of male hormones. What we generally recommend for treatment of male pattern baldness is finasteride, which is also classified as an anti-androgen in some sources. Finasteride blocks production of DHT (dihydroxytestosterone), which is one of the forms of testosterone that can affect hair growth in prone patients.
The typical antiandrogens can block testosterone. Although these medications are used for treatment of prostate cancer, they are not recommended for treatment of hair loss because of their numerous side effects. If you are a man using these antiandrogens for other medical conditions, they may positively affect your hair but may kill your sex life so you should not use them merely for treatment of male pattern baldness.
Antiandrogens may protect against covid
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32977363/
“Anti-androgens commonly used in the treatment of AGA such as finasteride, dutasteride, spironolactone, and bicalutamide could improve outcomes among men infected by SARS?CoV?2.”
We have known that men do worse than women when contracting Covid, with higher death rates. So this may help us understand the role of androgens in Covid
Are Antibiotics That We are Taking, Slowly Killing Us?
In a Denmark Study, people who “redeemed five or more antibiotic prescriptions over the course of a 15 year period were much more likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared with those who took antibiotics’ only noe or two times. Other diseases were also appearing that may be the result of altering the bacteria in our intestine finding associations with “obesity, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and even depression”.
Since the 1940s with the discovery of antibiotics, the focus was to kill all of the bad ‘germs’ in our body, but maybe we just killed off the good ‘germs’ in the process and without these good ‘germs’, we found ourselves with many other diseases. Children may have been over-treated causing more asthma and a tendency to obesity.
I have read much about the value of our ‘gut’ to help our immune system function properly. The learning curve is very steep at this time and it seems that in almost every medical journal now appearing, we are learning that our intestine is really a functioning part of our immune system, something I never learned in medical school.
I found myself being asked many times by patients to give them an antibiotic for a flu. I know it did not work against a virus, but the patients would demand antibiotics and although I may have been one of the few doctors who resisted such calls for antibiotics, I could not always stand my ground. So what I am telling you here is not to demand Antibiotics when you are not feeling well, as you might be harming yourself if you took them unnecessarily.
This was discussed in New Scientist, April 8-13, Pages 39-41.
2017-04-09 20:32:362017-04-09 20:32:36Are Antibiotics That We are Taking, Slowly Killing Us?
Anti-Nuclear Antibodies (ANA) and DUPA
Doctor, when a patient have DUPA, his/her ANF (Anti-Nuclear Factor) is positive? I have no balding parents nor relatives (until the 4th generation above myself), but I think I’m suffering DUPA and it began just after a heavy stressing period
The diagnosis of DUPA (diffuse unpatterned alopecia) is made by mapping out your hair and scalp for miniaturization. A good examination is critical. Hair loss in men comes about for four reasons:
- Genes
- Male hormones
- Stress (you seem stressed)
- Time (the longer #1-3, the worse the problem will become)
To avoid confusion, ANF and ANA are the same thing (see Wikipedia for more info). I am not familiar with a positive ANA factor as a participating cause of DUPA. Conditions like DUPA can occur with a variety of autoimmune diseases of which some of them may have positive ANAs.
2008-06-03 15:33:402008-05-29 15:29:48Anti-Nuclear Antibodies (ANA) and DUPA