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Alcohol, Heavy Drinking, & Hair Loss
Heavy drinking is never a good idea. Aside from the long-term risks – alcoholism, drunk driving, and liver disease included – long-term binge drinking takes a detrimental toll on your appearance and emotional health. Heavy drinkers may also suffer from...
Understanding Hair Growth Stages
Many of you have probably heard of three stages of hair growth: anagen, catagen, and telogen. But there are actually four stages, and the fourth stage is exogen. These stages are a cycle. The hair starts to grow, grows, rests,...
Hair Loss Treatment: Can Meditation Help Reduce Hair Loss?
Suffering from losing hair or thinning hair is stressful. Excessive worrying and stress can contribute to increased anxiety resulting in more hair loss. It's a vicious cycle, doomed to repeat itself unless you do something to reduce your stress. Meditation...
Does Pool Chlorine Cause Hair Loss?
When there’s just one month left until summer, it means the season of swimming and splashing is near. But the idea of thwarting your laser therapy hair restoration efforts by submerging in chlorinated water is somewhat alarming. After all, you...
How Long Do LLLT Results Take?
Just as androgenic alopecia doesn’t occur overnight, low-level laser therapy, or LLLT results, are not instantaneous. However, patients can anticipate a noticeable change within two to four months of regular, dedicated use. Keep in mind that every hair loss case...
Female & Male Androgenetic Alopecia Treatment
Androgenetic Alopecia is a common form of hair loss that affects both men (male pattern hair loss or MPH) and women (female pattern hair loss or FPH). You inherit a predisposition to it that coupled with some environmental factors causes...
Low-Level Laser Therapy & Minoxidil
When it comes to treating hair loss, low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is the most convenient and autonomous approach. The freedom to use your laser cap alongside another hair loss treatment is appreciated by many. Many Capillus® users and their physicians...
Hair Loss: Is the Sun Damaging Your Hair?
If you’re like most people, warmer weather calls for outdoor fun and activities, whether it's sports such as golf, boating, or swimming; backyard parties and barbeques, or lazy days at the beach. And like most of us, you probably put...
Stimulate Dormant Hair Follicle Growth
Active hair follicles go through a natural cycle of growth that includes a period of growth, a period of rest, and then shedding or falling out. If you’ve started to notice thinning in certain areas of your scalp, i.e., your...