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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...
Capillus laser caps have caught the eye of all sorts of people looking for a solution for thinning hair, and now they’ve made their way onto the small screen! Dr. Oz featured our laser caps on a segment focused on...
How to Get Thicker Hair at Home
You may think you’re alone in the struggle to achieve thicker hair, but the statistics show otherwise. By age 35, two-thirds of American men experience some degree of hair loss that worsens with time.¹ Female pattern hair loss (FPHL) typically...
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...
Capillus Physician Spotlight: Dr. Sean Behnam
Dr. Sean Behnam is a board certified hair transplant surgeon located in Santa Monica, California. Having performed over 1,000 transplant procedures, Dr. Behnam understands the need for an artistic touch when conducting surgical restoration procedures. As an artist, Dr. Behnam...
Vitamins That Are Good for Your Hair
There is no doubt that eating healthy contributes to having a healthy body and healthy hair. Some vitamins play a more important role in your hair growth and quality than others, and some vitamin deficiencies have a particularly damaging and...