This is no minor improvement at
all. It looks like the whole enchilada. It easily explains baldness in its various
forms and directly cures the problem. So
far it looks good for four months after treatment. I suspect it is good for much longer,
depending on the build up of CRF. For low
level problems such as shock related hair loss the fix is possibly permanent.
Yet even for men facing early
onset baldness who are clearly in most need, this result supports a quarterly treatment
at worst.
For all facing age related hair
loss, we are looking at what may well be a complete fix for most.
Follicle restoration may well be
another matter for most though.
From the images we are seeing a
full and complete restoration, rather than a small improvement which has been
the best anyone has ever achieved.
Perhaps we will all be sporting a
full thick head of hair rather soon, and I do mean everyone.
Nothing is clear yet regarding
the effect on hair color. One presumes
that white hair is a natural outcome that is independent of this particular
factor but that is unclear also.
Researchers stumble on potential new treatment for hair loss
By Darren
Quick
21:29 February 17, 2011
While conducting research into brain-gut interactions, a team led by
researchers from UCLA and
the Veterans Administration may have inadvertently stumbled across a new
treatment for hair loss. During an investigation into the affect of stress on
gastrointestinal function, the researchers believe they may have found a
chemical compound that induces hair growth by blocking a stress-related hormone
associated with hair loss.
It’s long been recognized that stress plays a role in hair loss and,
although there have been numerous hair-restoration remedies emerge over the
years, even legitimate medications such as minoxidil have only shown limited
effectiveness. The UCLA-led team says their findings show that the chemical
compound they have uncovered could provide long-term hair regrowth from a
short-duration treatment.
Instead of looking for mice burdened with debt or in the process of
moving house, for their research the researchers had been using mice that were
genetically altered to overproduce a stress hormone called
corticotrophin-releasing factor, or CRF. As these mice age, they lose hair and
eventually become bald on their backs, making them visually distinct from their
unaltered counterparts.
The UCLA and VA researchers then injected a peptide called astressin-B,
which has the ability to block the action of CRF, into the bald mice to observe
how its CRF-blocking ability affected gastrointestinal tract function. When the
initial single injection had no effect the investigators continued the
injections over five days to give the peptide a better chance of blocking the
CRF receptors. They measured the effects of this regimen on the stress-induced
response in the colons of the mice and placed the mice back in the cages with
their hairy counterparts.
Three months later the researchers returned to the mice to conduct
further gastrointestinal studies and found they couldn’t distinguish them from
their unaltered brethren as their previously bald backs were now covered in
hair.
"When we analyzed the identification number of the mice that had
grown hair we found that, indeed, the astressin-B peptide was responsible for
the remarkable hair growth in the bald mice," said Million Mulugeta, an
adjunct professor of medicine in the division of digestive diseases at the
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a corresponding author of the
research. "Subsequent studies confirmed this unequivocally,” he added.
Particularly noteworthy was the fact that just one injection a day for
five consecutive days was enough to maintain the effects for up to four months.
"This is a comparatively long time, considering that mice's life
span is less than two years," Mulugeta said.
Whether the same effect happens in humans remains to be seen, but the
researchers say the fact that the bald mice also showed mild hair growth when
treated with minoxidil alone, as is the case in humans, suggests that
astressin-B could also produce hair regrowth
in humans. In fact, it is known that the stress-hormone CRF, its receptors and
other peptides that modulate these receptors are found in human skin.
UCLA and the Salk Institute have
applied for a patent on the use of the astressin-B peptide for hair growth.
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