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Recent scientific experiments using mice have shown that new hair follicles can be induced to grow in new skin when the wound healing process is altered using a wnt protein. This protein caused mature skin cells to behave like embryonic skin cells and form new hair follicles. The research into this potential hair loss treatment is [...]

Recent scientific experiments using mice have shown that new hair follicles can be induced to grow in new skin when the wound healing process is altered using a wnt protein. This protein caused mature skin cells to behave like embryonic skin cells and form new hair follicles.

The research into this potential hair loss treatment is in the early stages and it remains to be seen if the new hair follicles stimulated to grow in the balding areas could be made to be resistant to balding.

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Recently there has been a great deal of discussion and controversy about the recent FDA approval of low level laser therapy. Some members of our discussion forum feel that the marketers of these low level laser hair loss treatments have been misrepresenting this very limited approval for safety by presenting it as if it were an [...]

Recently there has been a great deal of discussion and controversy about the recent FDA approval of low level laser therapy. Some members of our discussion forum feel that the marketers of these low level laser hair loss treatments have been misrepresenting this very limited approval for safety by presenting it as if it were an endorsement of their effectiveness in treating hair loss.

In reality the FDA approval for devices like the Laser Max Hair Comb is not based on any measure of their effectiveness as a hair loss treatment. Rather such laser hair therapy devices have merely been FDA approved recently for being non harmful.

Yet the marketers of these low level laser hair therapies have been cleverly touting their products FDA approval in press releases and their advertisements as if it were now proven to be an effective FDA approved hair loss product like Rogaine or Minoxidil.

To learn more about this hot topic and view some of the debate, visit the following discussion forum topics:

What does FDA Approval of Low Light Laser Therapy really mean?

Dr. Alan Feller’s rebuttal of laser hair therapy used by Advanced Hair Studio

Dr. Bauman advocates that laser therapy MIGHT have some benefit.

Not long ago we discussed the problems related to fluoride use in humans in our ezine/newsletter edition. I have been alarmed by advocates of fluoridation who now are campaigning to extend the process to supplies of bottled water. Now we are seeing more research that raises serious issues of adverse effects on health caused by fluoride.

Scientists report a link between dental fluorosis and periodontal disease in the June 2007 Indian Journal of Dental Research. (1)
 
Dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow, brown stained and/or pitted teeth - is a visual manifestation of fluoride overdose during childhood. Dental fluorosis afflicts from 1/3 to 1/2 of U.S. schoolchildren, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. (2)
 
Inhabitants of the Davangere district of India were studied where natural water fluoride levels ranged from 1.5 to 3.0 parts-per-million (ppm) which is similar to fluoride levels allowed in U.S. water supplies (up to 4 ppm). The sample consisted of 1,029 subjects between 15 and 74-years-old.
 
As the degree of dental fluorosis increased, periodontitis (advanced gum infection) increased. "The results suggest that there is a strong association of occurrence of periodontal disease in high-fluoride areas," write Vandana and Reddy.