Are you spending more and more time in front of the mirror in order to artfully hide any sparse spots on the scalp by styling and fixing your hair? You are definitely not alone with it, due to the fact that you are in good company with celebrity ladies such as Naomi Campbell, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and others, whose “Bad Hair Day” is part of their daily life as well.
Young women are already particularly affected in terms of hair problems such as split ends, pulled out extensions and hair loss. Thus, the wind revealed unpleasant bald spots on the top model Naomi Campbell’s head, while she roared over the sea waves in the motor boat with her Russian lover Vladislav Doronin in the previous year. According to an expert’s opinion written in an article in the Daily Mail, permanent stress due to hair extensions, hair straighteners, and extreme hair styles are responsible for hair damage.
Which factors actually affect hair quality, hair color, and hair thickness? They are primarily congenital. Hence, just like all people of Black African origin, Ms. Campbell has “kinky hair” which is particularly easy to break by hair smoothing.
Subsequently, the hair quality depends on the capacity of the endocrine glands. If the performance decreases with increasing age, the hair becomes thinner. The graying of hair has to do with the production slow down of the melanotropine hormone as well as with a few other hormones. In case hair falls out more than usual, it could be caused by weakened adrenal glands due to stress, but also by an underproduction of growth or sex hormones. Normal hair loss in men with increasing age is usually due to an increasing hypersensitivity of hair follicles against the hormone dihydrotestosterone.
Of course, not only Lindsay Lohan and Naomi Campbell are primarily interested in how the tiresome hair problems can be solved.
Besides genetics and hormones, poor hair care, stressful way of life, low-protein nutrition, and the environment have an impact on the condition of our hair. In other words, it partly depends on us to contribute our part in terms of hair quality. In addition to visiting the hairdresser, the modern methods of Aesthetic Regenerative Medicine and New Cosmetic Surgery are perhaps recommended.
Regular readers of my blog know that optimal hormone levels are the prerequisite for juvenile and vital appearance: If the hormone levels have dropped below the optimum values after a certain age, signs of aging become apparent, often on the skin, tissue, and hair. Therefore, hair problems should be always viewed as a symptom and integrally treated (including bioidentical hormones by means of Hormonal Regeneration®).
Furthermore, the number of stem cells in the hair follicles seem to play a role. For several years we know that a great number of stem cells are found not only in the hair follicles, but also in the fat tissue of our body. These autologous stem cells have a considerable biological potential, which is why they are outstandingly suitable for gentle regenerative treatments of skin and hair. In the first step of the hair growth treatment with autologous stem cells, a smaller amount of fat is gently sucked out through microcannulas. Subsequently, the stem cells contained in the collected fat are separated in a specific laboratory process. The stem cells can now be administered either as holistic regenerative therapy or injected locally into the scalp by using very fine needles. Both ways have already proved their worth and should be optimally combined. In this way, not only the existing hair is strengthened, but the growth of new hair at the hairline will also be promoted!
The effect of a hair growth therapy with autologous stem cells can be mimicked up to a certain extent by a treatment with tissue-specific hormones, so-called hair growth factors. In this form of hair therapy, the growth factors are injected into the scalp using micro-needles, where they stimulate hair growth. After training, the treatment can be performed by the patient or by the patient’s family members at home. In its most basic form, the hair serum will only be topically applied on the areas to be treated and absorbed by the hair follicles. This form of hair therapy is suitable for men and women, but needs to be repeated more often with typical male hormone-related hair loss.
If the hair becomes increasingly thinner and finer, Hormonal Regeneration® and stem cell therapy should be combined at any case. At the present time, there is no alternative to the classic hair transplant method in case of complete baldness, which brings the best cosmetic result in the form of the very time-consuming single follicle implantation with simultaneous stem cell application. By combining hair transplantation and hair therapy with stem cells or growth factors, an impressive, sustainable result can be achieved.
Individuals like Naomi Campbell, who are already over 40, should invest a lot of love and care, but also refer to the methods of the New Cosmetic Surgery early enough in order to cut the same, or even better figure/hair style during motor boating than the young competition.
DDr. Heinrich, MD