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Does Caffeine Counteract Hair Loss?
There have been a handful of studies looking at whether caffeine affects hair growth or hair loss. However, the results have been mixed. Let’s take a closer look at the research. There is some evidence that caffeine interferes with dihydrotestosterone...
3 Ways to Jumpstart the Fight Against Hair Loss
Hair loss isn’t just about physical appearance. Balding, shedding or thinning hair has the potential to compromise one’s self-image, leading to depression and social anxiety down the road. Moreover, hair loss is fairly common. About 50 percent of men experience...
Making Your Hair Look Fuller for the Holiday Season
For many of us, this is the time of year when you want to look your best. And hair loss can be hard on your self-esteem. Even if you’ve started treatment—and we know that Low-Level Light (Laser) Therapy with laser...
Understanding & Treating Hair Loss in Seniors: How Capillus Products Can Help
Hair loss happens—it’s a common occurrence that affects millions of people around the globe each and every year. Hair loss gets especially worse as we get older, as the rate at which our hair regrows slows to a near halt....
Daily Hair Washing: Is it Good for Your Hair?
Americans focus a lot on cleanliness. For many men and women this means showering every day. But is it necessary to wash your hair as often as you wash your body? The answer: it depends. Although our shampoo bottles may...
Hair Loss: Your Thyroid Might Be Trying To Tell You Something
The health of your hair can be used as a barometer for the health of your body. Meaning any sudden change in the health of your hair, regardless of whether you are a man or woman, could indicate a more...
Hair and Hair Loss Treatment: Hair Color
Before getting into how we can help you to replace hair that is lost, we couldn’t resist telling you a little about hair color because it’s such a fascinating topic. Hair color is determined by melanin, a naturally occurring pigment...
Hair and Hair Loss Treatment: The Story of Hair
Humans have two kinds of hair: terminal hair and vellus hair. Terminal hair is the thicker hair that grows on your scalp and vellus hair is the very fine short hair found on most other parts of the body. Although...
Research Uncovers Enzyme Contributing to Hair Loss
Some important new research coming out of Bonn, Germany has shed light on one particular gene responsible for a rare type of hair loss, Hereditary Hypotrichosis Simplex. The gene they have been studying is the LSS gene, which regulates lanosterol...