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Hair loss affects more than 50 million Americans, 20 million of them women. With numbers like that, it’s not surprising that the people behind the bestselling Dummies Books series have taken note. Their comprehensive new book, Hair Loss & Replacement for Dummies, authored by four medical experts on hair loss, has just been published by Wiley. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs spoke with one of the authors, hair-transplant surgeon Dr. William Rassman in Los Angeles.

Hey, that’s me!

Read my new interview with Time Magazine at their website — Time.com. I’m glad I got the chance to get some publicity for my new book, Hair Loss & Replacement for Dummies (which you can buy online or in stores now *cough cough*). The interview was just posted on Time’s site, so feel free to post your thoughts about it here (after you read it, of course).

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It is important for those of you wanting to do micro-needling yourself, to watch this video. This is what I do in my office on occasion. A complete review of micro-needling can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_4tq3K8Lv8bhkgQw-A4rww9FVr8Nrb_-5wfxVqJFPxE/edit

Derma pen vs Derma roller from tressless

Dr. Robert Bernstein and I reported a condition called Age Related Thinning. We know with time, normal hair in many people, will thin with age.

Scalp Micropigmentation is a better solution: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/

This is an interesting study; however, although I don’t want to be a snob, a proper study should be done from a recognized academic institution that would lend credibility to this study. The link does not show this, but some of the science is there. Using peppermint oil certainly will not hurt you if you try it. I would love to hear some people’s response to their use of it reported back here.

This study proves that peppermint oil is more effective than minoxidil, can you guys tell me why it isn’t? from tressless

The drug melatonin, a potent antioxidant and growth modulator, was identified as a promising candidate for the topical treatment of hair loss. The study was conducted in 2003 at the Forenap Centre Hospitalier in Rouffach, France. The drug was found to be well tolerated. Approximately 80% of people found that it reduced hair loss during the short 90 day trial. The study concluded that there was a positive effect of melatonin on hair growth in patients with AGA. The authors recommended more studies have to be done to confirm the benefits for both short and long term hair loss treatment. The drug melatonin may behave similar to a topical drug which was marketed by a French pharmaceutical company which was known as a “morning after” abortion pill (as it was/is known and marketed some 20 years ago) and no longer on the market. A topical form of melatonin is commercialized in Spain (a topical solution called Lambdapil solution) but according to a colleague there, it is weak and no better than minoxidil.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/19/science/long-covid-causes.html?referringSource=articleShare

This solution has been utilized in mice for more than 20 years. Some human work has been done but as of late, we have not seen successful hair growth in humans from this approach. Nevertheless, worth viewing if you don’t know much about stem cell research and hair growth

The authors of this latest 2018 work is Durham University’s Dr. Colin Jahoda and US-based Columbia University’s Department of Dermatology, led by the renowned Dr. Angela Christiana. These are two of the most famous names in the field.