BALD NO MORE

The holy grail for women is cellulite and stretch marks, and for us men it's baldness or hairloss. There have been advances made on all fronts to be sure but more work needs to be done. Some promissing new research was reported by scientist at UCLA. Researchers there were doing work on stress hormones on mice that normally are bald head to toe. The compound the researcheres wanted to study was astressin-B, if it would block the effects of stress on the colon. When the drug was given to the "bald-hairless" mice, after 5 days or so they no longer were bald. WOW! They next took this magical compound and injected it into baby mice before they went bald and low and behold those mice did not lose their hair. More studies-research are planned. There may be hope for us old grey balding men.

BALDNESS-IS THERE HOPE?

Dr. Robert Brueck MD FACS, a Ft. Myers Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, frequently blogs about different matters of health and beauty. You can also visit his website at Beauty-by-Brueck.com

I guess if men were to have a holy grail of what they would like, it probably would be thick, bushy hair. I know, I'm one of them. For women it's the age old problem of cellulite.

But men despair no more, hope lies on the horizon.

A new study done recently shows that areas of baldness may not be void of follicle stem cells. For years it was thought that hair follicles were absent in bald areas. New research dispels that belief.

Indeed, bald men have a normal number of follicle stem cells, but the bald spots lack progenitor cells. The way it works is stem cells-progenitor hair. So some how, someway we need to "wake up" the stem cells to continue their way toward a full, bushy head of hair. More will follow, so stay tuned.