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 Avoid Hair loss with
a Holistic Approach
Author: Craig Ress
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It takes many years of love and
care to restore hair back to its natural state. This can often
be achieved through multiple surgeries. But what if it was possible
to keep hair thicker and fuller for longer without going under
the knife?
There exist many alternatives
to standard hair loss treatments. Around the world, people are
losing their precious hair every day. You may be one of them.
Your hair is your crowning glory, an achievement of virility,
a signature of your appearance and an ever-changing indicator
of your ethnicity. It only goes to show that keeping hair intact
remains a challenging yet necessary function of our lives. Many
cures exist that aim to combat hair loss by destroying the main
cause, namely dihydrotestosterone (or DHT). DHT is best known
for causing male and female hair loss. It cannot be eliminated
as it is an essential part of the testosterone hormone, but it
can be reduced. This and other factors contribute to the declining
state of an individual’s hair. Read below to discover how
you can potentially avoid surgery through alternative hair loss
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• Low Level Laser Technology
(LLLT)
Close-up digital images of the scalp are first taken, to determine
a candidate’s suitability. Once the candidate is accepted
for the LLLT treatment, a non-abrasive (or ‘cold’)
laser light is passed over the strands of hair, creating a far
thicker and fuller look. This is not an experimental technique
and it has full FDA approval plus raving reviews from many hair
loss doctors from around the world. It must be noted though,
that the LLLT treatment is not amazingly effective when it comes
to growing actual hair. The treatment will however halt hair
loss and strengthen existing hair on the scalp.
• Tea and coffee
Unbelievably, both tea and coffee play a role in keeping hair
follicles strongly in place. Tea, specifically green tea has
been shown to reduce DHT levels by 50%. Taken in either the capsule
or beverage form, green tea has many other health benefits and
adding it to your diet will do more than simply keeping your
hair strong. If you are not fan of tea, then try a good, strong
cup of coffee. You do not drink coffee to reduce hair loss though.
When mixed into a shampoo in its purest form or used as a spray
of coffee beans, it has been shown to reduce testosterone-induced
follicle growth suppression. Further research must be conducted
but the studies are promising.
• Diet and daily life
It takes many contributing factors to avoid a hair transplant,
but vigorous, constant exercise on a daily basis is a deciding
factor in your bodies fight against hair loss. Combine this with
a diet that is sufficient yet reasonable in terms of fat and
total calorie ingestion and you have a (yet to be proven) way
to reduce baseline insulin levels, as well as baseline total
and free testosterone. And how does this assist you? In short,
aerobic exercise also leads to a reduction of DHT.
• Other allies in the fight
against alopecia
A combination of oils (such thyme, rosemary, lavender, and cedar
wood essential oils) in a blend of carrier oils (like jojoba
and grape seed) has shown to decrease alopecia in case studies.
Onions have been used as a natural hair loss preventative for
centuries; these dates reach back as far as the ancient Greeks.
Liquorice, coconut oil and lime-pepper seeds are another. These
techniques are all unproven, yet as curatives (even if they are
only placebos) it can have a wonderful and positive mental effect
on the hair loss patient.
Nick Barns considers hair loss
treatments to be of the utmost importance. He has suffered from
hair loss
for most of his adult life.
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