| What Baldness Is and Why It
Develops |
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| (Presented herein information taken from
several chapters in the newly published 225-page paperback book,Bald No
More, Preventing and Successfully treating Hair Loss for Both Men and Women
by Morton Walker, DPM, issued by the Kensington Publishing
Corporation. |
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| At age twenty-six, Phillip Morlork of Toronto,
a printer"s apprentice, went through a personal period of emotional
devastation when Sarah Valentine, the girl whom he was proposing to marry,
broke off their relationship. The tragedy happened simply because it appeared
that Phillip was going to look like his very bald father. In contrast, this
ex-girlfrend's own dad possessed hair as thick and tight as a Berber rug, and
she was much admiring of her pater. |
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| Because their meetings had been mostly at
night in parked cars, darkened taverns, poorly lit social gatherings or in dim
restaurants, Sarah had not noticed that the top of Phillip's scalp held a small
pancake-size patch of bareness. One evening, before he took the opportunity to
propose marriage, Sarah ran her fingers through Phil's hair and stopped in
midstroke. She had found the bald spot. Directly after that she dropped him,
and, unfortunately, was honest enough to tell the heart-broken fellow why.
Looking to the future, Sarah had said, "I just can't see myself with a
bald boyfriend." Little did she know that it had been his intention to
make himself her bald husband. |
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| The Long and Short of Hair Growth |
| In the fairy tale, when Rapunzel let down her
hair from the tower in which she was imprisoned, for the prince to climb up,
she had no clue that a genetic defect probably lay at the root of her golden
locks. But a 1994 experiment in developmental biology conducted as the
University of California, San Francisco, revealed that the presence of a growth
factor contrary to its name - limits the length that hair will grow. "When
the factor is missing, hair grows very, very long," reported Gail L.
Martin, PhD, a biologist working at that webt coast university. |
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| Along with other researchers, Dr. Martin was
studying a chemical messenger called fibroblast growth factor 5 in mice
that lacked the gene for this particular messenger. The scientists were
observing how its loss would affect embryonic development. To their surprise,
the newborn mice looked and acted normal - at least at first. But a few weeks
after their birth, she and her colleagues noticed that the young mice with
missing growth factor looked a bit shaggy. Their hair grew longer than what's
usual far baby mice. |
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| Normally, hair grows in cycles. First, a hair
follicle develops. Deep inside it lies a bud of mesodermal tissue which causes
the bud to divide and sprout as a hair. Eventually, as expected, it stops
growing. The follicle becomes quiescent, and the hair eventually falls out so
that the cycle then begins again. |
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| The Martin research group's genetic analyses
indicate that a known abnormal factor called the angora gene is actually
a variant of the gene for this growth factor. And Dr. Martin says that people,
too, may have the angora variant. According to her concept, fibroblast growth
factor 5 is the first, but probably not the only, chemical signal discovered
for the hair cycle. "There's obviously a backup signal, because the hair
doesn't grow forever," she noted during her presentation to the annual
meeting of the Society for Cell Biology, that was held in San
Francisco. |
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| There is no greater right-between-the-eyes
reminder that your youth is checking out and leaving no forwarding address than
the first time you see a drain clogged with your own hair. So many different
forms of baldness exist which could require defensive actions that their number
may seem overwhelming. |
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| The Numerous Forms of Baldness |
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| Baldness, referred to by the medical
profession as alopecia,is the partial or complete loss of hair from the
head or the body or both. It may result from a genetic trait, systemic disease,
hormonal defect, drug side effect, aging, anticancer treatment, skin disorder,
another systemic source, or from some local cause. Here are examples of the
more common baldness conditions: |
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| In alopecias areata, there are
well-defined bald patches, often round or oval in shape. They present
themselves on the head, beard, and other hairy parts of the body. Even if the
condition clears up within a year without treatment, it's common for the
suddenly visible alopecia areata to recur somewhat later. A few other less
common names are used to identify this problem too. It's variably called
alopecia celsi, alopecia circumscripta, and Jonston's
alopecia. |
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| Quite often the alopecia areata condition
responds well to the hair revitalizing ingredient in thymus gland extract from
the calf, which reactivates dormant hair follicles in men and women,
revitalizes normal hair cells for fuller, thicker, healthier hair, and is
applicable with positive results in almost all cases of thinning hair for both
sexes. It's a full program of treatment which, when steadily applied, prevents
the alopecia areata from returning. |
| Alopecia universalis is a complete
loss of hair that shows an all parts of the body. It sometimes occurs as an
extension of generalized alopecia areata, and the thymus gland extract
frequently does work well to correct this condition. |
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| In patchy alopecia (although
"patchy" is nothing more than a descriptive term), areas develop on
the parietal (front) and occipital (back) regions of the scalp that look
moth-eaten. The condition is suspected of being connected with the invasion of
some microorganism inasmuch as such hair loss has occasionally been a secondary
characteristic of various infections. Dr. Klio Moessler, one of the main
dermatologists at the Dermatological Department of the Municipal Clinics of
Darmstadt in Germany, who participated in research on diseases producing
baldness and new potential hair-growing products, points out, "Patchy
alopecia may come from a fungal or bacterial infection or from genetic defects
involving the hair. It occurs in cicatricial (scar forming) alopecia, alopecia
areata, and some skin diseases." Thymus gland extract may not be effective
in treating some of the more complicated causes of patchy alopecia. |
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| For alopecia totalis (complete
baldness), all the hair on the scalp is lost. This is an uncommon head hair
defect with no known cause, but it does respond to the calf thymus preparation
referred to. |
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| With the three types of alopecia areatas
(patchy, universalis, and totalis) evidence is mounting that an immunological
signal is involved. In the double condition diagnosed as alopecia areata
totalis et universalis the entire head and body of an individual becomes
bald. Hair disappears from the pubic region, armpits, eyelashes, eyebrows,
chest, legs, beard, and other areas. It has been proven, in clinical studies
that thymus gland extract is useful in reversing the effects of the combination
condition of alopecia areata totalis et universalis as well. |
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| You probably are aware that baldness has been
considered irreversible and there hasn't been any corrective treatment before
today. Immunological aspects of alopecia newly discovered have changed all
that. |
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| In alopecaa disseminate, also referred
to as alopecia diffusa, there is hair loss around the whole scalp or
even from other parts of the body: The cause may be a nutritional deficiency
(especially lack of zinc or iron), a dysfunction of the thyroid gland, a
polluting intoxicant, or some chronic and generalized illness. Alopecia diffusa
can't be corrected with thymus gland extract applied topically unless the
underlying difficulty is found and eliminated. |
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| As regarding alopecia androgenetica
(also known in dermatology as alopecia hereditaria), approximately half
of the adult males residing in the United States and other Western
industrialized countries exhibit this condition. Dr.Moessler told me that at
least 65% of all German men suffer from the problem. In men, some of the other
names for the condition of alopceia androgenetica are male pattern baldness,
androgenetic alopecia, premature baldness, seborrheic alopecia, common
baldness, hereditary baldness. In women, alopecia androgenetica is referred
to as female pattern baldness or diffuse alopecia. |
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| Rodney Dauber, MA, MB, ChB, who is consulting
dermatologist at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford and clinical senior lecturer
in dermatology at Oxford University, both in the United Kingdom, and Dominique
Van Neste, MD, PhD, Director of the Skin Study Center in Tournai, Belgium, have
reported: "Androgenetic alopecia probably occurs to a degree in all adults
some time after puberty - only being obvious in some women in old
age." |
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| The lose of hair is strongly suspected by
dermatologists both in the United States and in Europe, to arise from a
baldness gene. For both men and/or women with androgenetic alopecia, this gene
is suspected to be inherited from their fathers and occasionally from their
mothers. |
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| The Conjectured Reason for Androgenetic
Alopecia |
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| But with all the conjecture among hair
specialists, the true reason for alopecia androgenetica to appear is not
entirely known. Dermatologists do recognize that it is the most common form of
baldness showing up in males and females. Its onset occurs at puberty in
genetically predisposed individuals, and the condition is an autosomal dominant
disorder. (Autosomal dominant means that alopecia androgenetica has a pattern
of inheritance in which a dominant gene on a nonsex determining chromosome [the
autosome] makes a certain characteristic of baldness. Affected individuals
usually have a bald parent. However, normal children of the affected parent do
not carry the baldness trait. Thus, among two male siblings having a bald
father, one son may be bald and the other not. The nonbald brother will not
pass on the chromosome for baldness to his sons or daughters, but the bald
brother may do so. |
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| Idiopathic male / female pattern
baldness is a separate condition, too. The term, idiopathic, merely
means that the medical profession acknowledges that it has not determined the
cause of this form of baldness. |
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| To clarify hereditary baldness, in alopecia
androgenetica or alopecia hereditaria, the male pattern baldness and female
pattern forms result from sex-influenced dominant inheritance. Androgen
(meaning hormonal) stimulation is required to produce hair loss in
heterozygous individuals (in which there are two different genes situated at
the same place on matched chromosomes). For example, the individual with male
pattern baldness could have inherited the bald-headed gene from one parent
(mother or father) and the alternative gene from the other parent. The
offspring (boy or girl) of a heterozygous carrier of the bald-headed gene has a
50% chance of inheriting this gene from his or her parent. There is a
relationship of androgenetic alopecia and increased circulating androgens, at
puberty, which probably represents one of the precipitating events in such a
heterogeneous hair disorder. |
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| Furthermore, the cause of androgenetic
alopecia appears to be related mostly to androgen metabolism in the skin, the
hair follicle, and the sebaceous gland lobule. Hair scientists have found
hormonal abnormalities of cytosol and nuclear cell receptors and
cytoplasmic-carrying proteins and minerals especially within the body's
metabolism of calcium and irons. |
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| More Basic Underlying Sources of
Baldness |
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| Biology and body chemistry gone awry
simultaneously are the usual causes of baldness, particularly in men but also
in those women who may possess too much testosterone - the male hormone. In
that case, a woman could be exhibiting female pattern baldness (FPB) by her
hair's obvious thinning as a result of chronic fallout caused by an excess of
male hormone being generated by her endocrine system. |
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| Male pattern baldness most likely starts with
testosterone, the hormone produced in the testes that helps make a man a man
(and go bald like a man). Testosterone is a naturally occurring hormone that
stimulates the growth of male (androgen) characteristics. As testosterone flows
through the body, it interacts with an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase, which
is concentrated in the genitals and skin. The enzyme converts testosterone into
a more potent hormone called dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which some urologists
have referred to as "testosterone times ten.." It is formed directly
from testosterone in tissue, particularly in the secondary sex organs and is
higly biologically active, except in muscle and bone. DHT is necessary for male
external genital development, such as the formation of the penis, scrotum, and
proatate. |
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| In the scalp, each hair follicle is
genetically programmed to react differently to DHT. Men with MPB have DHT
sensitive follicles at the front or top of their heads, which wither and die
from extended exposure to the hormone. It stands to reason that the onset of
balding might be prevented biologically by one of several
strategies: |
| A. By stopping the body's production of
testosterone. |
| B. By stopping the testosterone from becoming
DHT |
| C. By blocking DHT before it gets to
follicles. |
| D. By making follicles less sensitive to
DHT |
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| A man interested in curing his baldness would
probably skip strategy A, because it involves castration at an early age.
Eunuchs never go bald. Although the German scientists who have perfected the
hair-growing qualities of the calf-derived thymus product to which I have
alluded don't exactly know how it works, they believe it does accomplish at
least one of the remaining B, C, or D strategies, or all three, or just two of
the three. Perhaps strategy D offers the most logic relating to the product's
action: making follicles less vulnerable to hormonal ravages. |
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| Manfred Hagedorn, MD, chief of Dermatology at
the Municipal Clinics of Darmstadt, points out that baldness has been shown
under the microscope to be an auto-immune disease wherein one's leucocytes
consisting of lymphocytes and macrophages, actually attack hair follicles and
cause them to go into dormancy. |
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| In alopecia androgenica, another separate
disease, a male type baldness associated with excessive endocrine gland
(androgenic) activity prevails in women as well. This specifically female
condition labelled FPB (female pattern baldness) is similar to alopecia
androgenetica. It has a genetic background coming under the influence of
androgen hormones in which the woman possesses more testosterone than she
needs. |
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| In Chapter Thirteen of my book, Bald No
More, is the frst clinical study conducted by Prof. Dr. Hagedorn and Dr.
Moessler who utilized the new German hair-growing product and produced a
reversal of alopecia androgenetica in 67% of men and 100% of women
participating in their investigation. Also the two dermatologists carried out a
second clinical study that demonstrated the regrowth of hair from the
application of this thymus gland extract product from the calf for 43% of
participating bald men and 94% of bald women. |
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| Confused by Baldness Terminology? |
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| Among the striking anatomical features of
human hair are its distribution, its variety, and its sparsity compared with
that of other primates. Human hair is not vestigial; it varies in type,
density, and length. The hair strands and their follicles have a unique anatomy
unlike any other structures in or on the human body. |
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| The lines of differentiation in internal
medicine, plastic surgery, and dermatology regarding differences in these
various baldness conditions are not clearcut. So if you are confused by all of
the descriptive hair loss definitions, you are not alone. Many physicians have
their own problems with diagnosing the reason for scalp disorders. As an
example of massive confusion, the medical textbook, Disorders of Hair
Growth: Diagnosis and Treatment, distinguishes among several hundred types
of individual hair losses occurring from diseases, disorders, or deficiencies.
Here is a list of just a few of them taken from, a second dermatology
textbook. |
| During my appearance as the guest on a radio
talk show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada I was discussing hair loss. A
program caller quizzed me and then stated, "I know why men go bald. They
wear hats that cut off their blood circulation and prevent the scalp from
'breathing."' This caller's comment was sheer nonsence. There are
literally hundreds of reasons for baldness and wearing a hat is not one of
them. |
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| At least 37 additional types of alopecia
could be mentioned, but many of them are so very rare they needn't be defined,
unless we come across them in discussing treated patients. For instance, in
Chapters Seven and Eight of my book, I describe successful prevention and
immediate reversal of alopecia medicamentosa, diffuse hair loss, most
notably froze the scalp, caused by the administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy
for cancer. |
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| During several months when my wife Joan was
taking elevated does of the mineral germanium in the form of encapsulated GE
132 powder as part of her cancer therapy protocol, she underwent hair loss.
While ordinarily a trace mineral taken as a nutritional supplement in tiny
doses; if consumed in massive amounts to kill cancer cells, GE 132 acts like a
cytotoxic agent used in chemotherapy. This high dosage germanium was part of
Klinik Winnerhof's anticancer treatment program as prescribed by Helmut G.
Keller, M.D. At one point, Joan, was losing between 600 and 1000 hair strands
per day. |
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| Then, I called upon the hair-preserving
company That distribute thymus gland extract, ThymuSkin®, the most
effective preparation known for the treatment of hair loss due to chemotherapy,
alopecia areata, or patterned baldness. It is free of any type of adverse side
effects and immediately stops hair from falling out. Within just a few days of
using ThymuSkin®Shampoo, Treatment solution, and Hair Gel, my wife's
hair loss discontinued. Her bald spots are now filling in too. |
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| What Thymus Gland Extract Does and How It Is
Supplied |
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| There are five different thymus gland extracts
under the umbrella name of ThymuSkin® hair products. All of them preserve
hair follicles and/or stimulate dormant but live follicles into regrowth.
Basically, a consumer can make do with only two products to start the
program. |
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| Being the two items investigated during
clinical studies done in Germany, theThymuSkin® Shampoo and
ThymuSkin® Hair Treatment Lotion are the really important
formulations to use. The fundamental principle for the shampoo is for cleansing
the scalp with tiny penetrating thymus peptides. Since these peptides are
broken down into the smallest of sizes - only 300 angstroms in length - they do
diffuse themselves into the hair follicles better than any other mode of
cleanser. They clean out each follicle of accumulated oil, dirt, debris, and
other waste and prepare the scalp for receiving the treatment
lotion. |
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| These two products - shampoo and hair
treatment lotion - work synergistically, and they are packaged together in kits
- small and large. The small kit contains one bottle of 100 milliliters (ml) of
shampoo and one bottle of 100 ml of the treatment lotion. (A milliliter is one
thousandth of a liter, and one liter is 33.81.4 ounces [ozs]. For ease of
figuring, you may consider that one oz contains 30 ml, and there are 30 drops
in one ml.) Each of the small-size kit products will last six to eight weeks,
depending on the volume of hair to which they are applied. Also, a larger area
of scalp that is thinning or balding actually uses less liquid than hairy areas
because the solutions are so much more readily spread across the scalp's smooth
skin. |
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| The larger ThymuSkin®; hair preservation
kit contains one 200 ml bottle of shampoo and one 200 ml bottle of hair
treatment lotion. Each of them lasts approximately there to four months, again
depending on the volume of hair and the areas of thinning or
balding. |
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| The usual experience of users is that large
amounts of hair fallout around the sink or in the shower as happend to my wife,
diminish steadily. The user notices a decrease of hair fall within the first
week of only using the shampoo. If you, as the user, have observed balding or
thinning of head hair for less than five years, you are likely to notice new
hair growth as early as two to three months. If your hair loss has been
occurring far longer than five years, than it could take anywhere from twelve
to eighteen months for you to see new hair growth. Usually after eighteen
months, if the ThymuSkin® combination of ingredients hasn't helped, you are
proving that the hair follicles on remaining bald areas are dead and nothing
applied will help to restore them to life. |
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| The ThymuSkin® Hair Treatment
Gelis a higher concentractions of thymus peptides, vitamins, minerals,
enzymes, and amino acids. It was developed to be used in conjunction with the
shampoo arid treatment lotion. The gel is a kind of "miracle grow"
that tends to produce follicular stimulation more quickly. Because it's so very
concentrated, only place the gel onto the balding or thinning areas for
intervals of twelve hours. And use it separately from the shampoo and lotion.
That is, you might apply the gel in the evening and go to sleep with it spread
over the scalp; then in the morning shampoo it away and put on the lotion for
the balance of your working day. |
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| The ThymuSkin® Hair Treatment Mask
is more of a setting lotion. It is prepared as a gelled type of substance that
one applies to towel-dried hair after the shampoo and hair treatment lotion
have been used. The hair mask is placed between the hairs and combed through so
that the hairs become covered with a protective coating. This coating holds off
ultraviolet rays, X-rays, cosmic rays, and other adverse environmental
influences from affecting new hair growth. Balding airline personnel who fly as
part of their occupation would benefit greatly from usage of the hair treatment
mask. Also it makes the hair feel healthy to the touch and looking
shiney. |
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| The ThymuSkin® Conditioner Creme Rinse
is somewhat more expensive than other hair rinses, but it makes the hair
strands so very soft and silky to the touch This terture holds in place for an
extra long period. The conditioner contains the thymus peptides and avocado
oils which help to regulate the fat metabolism of the scalp. It may be left in
place to condition for up to fifteen minutes (with a towel wrapped around the
head) twice a week, without worry of clogging the hair follicles. |
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| If one wishes to condition the hair with
something other than the ThymuSkin® Conditioner Creme Rinse, try to
acquire a natural cosmetic product and only put it on the hair ends. Otherwise,
if you allow this substitute coditioner to coat the scalp, a problem arises
because the ThymuSkin® Shampoo has already cleaned the scalp and its
hair follicles. The other conditioner will coat the scalp, and any purpose of
cleansing the scalp will be defeated. |
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| As for other shampoos; they may posses
peptides which break- down to the larger size of 500 angstroms, That's usual.
These bigger peptides won't penetrate the scalp to clean out the hair
follicles. Clogging from debris then develops. |
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| Perms, dyeing. and highlighting for hair have
no adverse effect on the success of treating withThymuSkin.®
However, it's recommended that you should use high-quality branded products for
these purposes. And afterward, neutralize possible abuse of your hair follicles
by reapplying theThymuSkin® Conditioner Creme Rinse and Hair
Treatment Mask. |
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| Using a hair dryer is not recommended for it
causes the scalp to perspire, become dehydrated, and undergo loss of necessary
minerals. Such an environmental response of the scalp eventually results in
skin dryness, itching, drandruff, and hair loss. If you cannot dispense with
the use of a hair dryer, consider following these practices: |
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- Hold the hot air blowing apparatus to one side
of the head and direct it from below in an upward direction and away from the
scalp.
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- Insure that no hot air reaches the scalp
directly:
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- After applying hair treatment lotion, under no
circumstances use a hair dryer or the lotion will be dissipated into the air as
an evaporant. Your effort and investment will then be lost.
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| How Often to Apply the Hair Treatment |
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| To insure new hair growth or to prevent any
further receding hairline ThymuSkin®Hair Treatment should be applied
to the scalp twice a day for four weeks. Thereafter it can be put on once a day
for six to eighteen months, depending on the severity of hair loss. After one's
baldness is decreased and hair growth is more predominant, usage can first be
reduced to every second day and then to twice a week thereafter. When
the ThymuSkin® Hair Treatment Revitalizer is applied to the scalp, a
brisk one-minute massage should be administered each time. Additionally wash
the hair at least twice a week with the complementing ThymuSkin®
Shampoo. This is excellent therapy for the hair of people who have been
victims of one or more of the four particular scalp problems, female or male
patterned baldness, Alopecia medicamentosa (chemotherapy), Alopecia totalis,
and Alopecia universalis. |
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| Only those separate regions, on the scalp
containing enough live hair follicles will show good hair growth. If patches of
the scalp hold, dead follicles, no hair will arise from them. Usually hair
preservation and even new hair growth will happen for people who are still in
the process of losing their hair. For those who experienced a sudden baldness
occurring from allergy, deficiency, menopause, pregnancy; metallic toxicity, or
another reason associated with pathology, the health problem is best corrected
fast. Then, without questionThymuSkin® does the job exceedingly
well. If this product is applied one week before and during mild or moderate
chemotherapy, there won't be any hair loss for the patient. This is verified by
numbers of German oncologists. |
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| Keep in mind that ThymuSkin® is a
doctor-recommended cosmetic product sold without prescription,
over-the-counter, and for self-administration. |
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| For longstanding baldies like me, in which
male pattern baldness has been an inherited trait (Alopecia hereditaria) - my
father and grandfather being bald at relatively young ages - there is no hope
of much hair restoration. Even so, Dr. Moessler told me, "If somebody has
members of his or her family who are bald, and he or she does not want to be
bald as well, he or she should use ThymuSkin®as a preventative,
starting at a young age and continuing for a long period." |
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| In association with the highly penetrating
small-chained peptides, the ThymuSkin® nutrients are carried into
the blood stream and travel around to the rest of the body. The combination
preparations are stimulating the growth of hair and, optionally, the growth of
skin and nails, as well. Through the skin of your scalp, the following
nutrients, under US Patent PCT/DE95/01745, can nourish your total physiology,
most especially your hair follicles, epidermis, and nails: |