Comb Your Baldness Away?
Great. As if I don't get enough spam each day for treatments for baldness, a small penis, notification that my loan had been approved or an urgent request to help out a Nigerian doctor to bring 20 million dollars to the US, now there is a treatment for male pattern baldness that actually seems to work. Using a low level "cold" laser, the new FDA-approved hair brush will, if their claims and studies are true, actually result in increased hair growth.How can this be? Don't lasers actually destroy tissue? Well, I called an old friend who has been using low level laser for years to treat chronic pain and inflammation and asked him: Can this really work and if so, how the heck does this work?
Here is how Dr. Leonard Rudnick of Tucson explained this to me. Low level laser accelerates healing and inflammation, restoring tissues and cells to their normal healthy function. When applied to hair follicles, this return to normal cellular function and stabilization of the membranes results in a return of hair growth. Think about it -- years of damage from sun, poor diet, tobacco, excess hormones and bad genetics can be overcome by a laser hair brush.
But as with all new and magical solutions to age-old problems, let's let time decide whether or not this will really work. Is it really worth $500? How quickly will hair regrow and if so, will the hair remain or will it fall out again? Will the hair look the same or will it be different? What about any side effects? Could these treatments do any damage, after all, we are aiming these lasers into our brains? My guess is that like most press release "breakthroughs," this will be of some benefit but not the cure-all we all would hope.
Rest assured that if it helps in any way, then these laser hair brushes will be a hotter topic than the next presidential election. Just be careful where you aim them.
I can hear the spammers at their computers now.
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