http://www.hairlosspi.com Hairloss PI Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:22:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/08/07/predicting-your-susceptibility-to-baldness-the-399-dna-test/ http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/08/07/predicting-your-susceptibility-to-baldness-the-399-dna-test/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:22:18 +0000 Brandon Miles http://www.hairlosspi.com/?p=872 Learning and sharing your genetic secrets are at the heart of 23andMe's controversial new service — a $399 saliva test that estimates your predisposition for more than 90 traits and conditions ranging from baldness to blindness.]]> http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/08/07/predicting-your-susceptibility-to-baldness-the-399-dna-test/feed/ 0 http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/08/07/i-wore-a-mullet-hairpiece-during-wimbledon-andre-agassi/ http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/08/07/i-wore-a-mullet-hairpiece-during-wimbledon-andre-agassi/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:15:32 +0000 Brandon Miles http://www.hairlosspi.com/?p=868 Former tennis star Andre Agassi has admitted the lion mane-style hairstyle he sported during the 1990s was actually a wig, in extracts from his autobiography published in British weekend newspapers.]]> http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/08/07/i-wore-a-mullet-hairpiece-during-wimbledon-andre-agassi/feed/ 0 http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/07/19/traction-alopecia-hair-loss-due-to-extensions-and-weaves/ http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/07/19/traction-alopecia-hair-loss-due-to-extensions-and-weaves/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:09:24 +0000 Brandon Miles http://www.hairlosspi.com/?p=860 Research in the British Journal of Dermatology claimed that some women lose their hair within a week of having extensions and that even women with no obvious signs of hair loss had considerable underlying damage to the scalp when examined more closely, as a result of traction alopecia.]]> http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/07/19/traction-alopecia-hair-loss-due-to-extensions-and-weaves/feed/ 0 http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/07/04/top-10-celebrity-hair-transplants/ http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/07/04/top-10-celebrity-hair-transplants/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:47:55 +0000 admin http://www.hairlosspi.com/?p=854 Joe Biden: The new Vice President’s hair transplant surgery was a hot topic of discussion during the final months of the 2008 presidential election. Nicholas Cage: This star’s newly plentiful hairline speaks of a very well-done hair transplant surgery. Matt Lauer: Longtime host of the Today Show, Matt Lauer’s hairline has been under the spotlight [...]]]> http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/07/04/top-10-celebrity-hair-transplants/feed/ 0 http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/07/04/saw-palmetto-in-the-treatment-of-androgenetic-alopecia/ http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/07/04/saw-palmetto-in-the-treatment-of-androgenetic-alopecia/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:02:39 +0000 Brandon Miles http://www.hairlosspi.com/?p=840 Studies have shown that saw palmetto is an effective anti-androgen. It acts in a similar way that propecia does. Firstly it lowers levels of DHT in the body by blocking 5 alpa-reductase. Secondly Saw Palmetto blocks receptors sites on cell membranes required for cells to absorb DHT. Although no studies have been carried out on saw palmetto and its relation to hair growth, studies have been performed on the use of Saw Palmetto in the treatment of benign prostatic disease, which is similar to androgenetic alopecia in that it also depends on the production of dihydrotestosterone. All of the studies that have been performed to date show that Saw Palmetto is an effective anti-androgen and has shown conclusively to be effective in the treatment of benign prostatic disease.]]> http://www.hairlosspi.com/2010/07/04/saw-palmetto-in-the-treatment-of-androgenetic-alopecia/feed/ 0