Tuesday, August 30, 2011

How to Naturally Regrow Healthy Hair

You can rest assured that there are ways to achieve healthy hair regrowth without investing your time and money into the latest hair loss treatments. One of the biggest steps towards hair growth is increasing the intake of nutrients for your hair roots and follicles. This is something that you can do that will naturally help to grow back healthy hair.

Amla is a traditional Indian herb. This herb acts as a natural conditioner and is great for maintaining healthy hair. It works towards healing the hair shaft by repairing and sealing the cuticle. It also protects hair against breakage and loss of shine.

Use a natural shampoo on your hair and then apply olive oil to your scalp and damp strands. Cover your head with a plastic cap to seal in the heat from your head. The heat from your head will allow the protein from the oil to penetrate your strands. Leave it on for at least one hour. You can get even better results by leaving the olive oil on your strands overnight. Rinse it out with lukewarm water. You will notice that your strands feel stronger and do not snap off as easily.

Lavender, rosemary, jojoba, coconut and margosa oils all will work to regrow lost hairs on your head. These work especially well around bald spots and can even regrow hair along the temple area. Just add a few drops of each to your scalp, massage thoroughly for 15 minutes, let sit for about 45 minutes, then wash away with a mild shampoo. There isn’t a need to do this every single day; three times per week will do the trick.

Dietary modification has often been employed in addressing male and female pattern baldness. It involves the ingestion of foods rich in minerals like silica, iron, and calcium such as green vegetables. In the case of females, the accent is often on protein and zinc supplementation.

One of the best natural hair loss treatments is the use of almond oil. Massaged onto the scalp two to three times a day, this oil is effective in preventing hair loss. Aromatherapy stimulates the scalp to prevent and treat hair loss using essential oils from herbs. A mixture of six drops of lavender plus bay essential oils is added to four ounces of soybean, almond or sesame oil. The mixture is applied to the scalp and massaged.

Intake of appropriate vitamins is needed for regaining the healthy growth of hair. A good vitamin balance is crucial to maintain the hairline. However, not all vitamins are good for this purpose. Vitamin B, biotin, magnesium and vitamin C are the ones that should be taken to have the best effects.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Pig Bladder to Cure Baldness?

We’ve all heard about cures for fixing hair loss but few ever pan out the way we hope. If anything, you end up losing more hair over the amount you spend on plugs, foams, oral medications, shampoos, etc. But what if there was a way to stop baldness—in 30 minutes.

Even more unexpected—the ingredient used to do so can probably be found in your butcher’s waste bin. I’m talking about pig bladders, people. That forgotten organ has those suffering from hair loss a buzz, thanks to a new trial. The process doesn’t sound too difficult; doctors take a mixture of platelet-rich plasma from the patient’s own blood and mix it with a powder extracted from pig bladders. The only downside that I can think of is that you’ll have a pig bladder mixture being injected into your scalp which is just mildly digesting. Even if one was able to get past the gross-out factor, this treatment might be at odds with religious beliefs. Some religions don’t want you to eat pork; I doubt being injected with it will be any different.

The trials for the said cure are performed by Raghu Reddy at the Private Clinic in Harley Street with the help of Gary Hitzig who developed the powder pig bladder extract in the United States. 20 British men have been selected to try it out. The purpose of the pig bladder is to trick the body into thinking the scalp cells are in a pre-birth state, which reactivates them.

Now before you start strapping pig bladders to your head or begin a ‘three pig bladders a day’ meal plan, let me explain how the pig bladder extract is produced:

1. A pig bladder is cut open and spread out.
2. You scrape off the muscle and leave the collagen-rich tissue.
3. You then clean out the tissue in an acid bath.
4. Finally, leave the bladder out to dry and grind the dried organ into a powder.

Once again, do NOT try this at home. I’m no health inspector but I imagine that the pig bladder could make for an unsafe work environment.

The pig bladder is no stranger to the limelight. Back in 2008, a man cut the tip of his finger off; not wanting to deal with a stump for the rest of his life, he took matters into his own hands. He used a powder of pig’s bladder and doctors claimed that it was able to grow back his flesh, tendon, skin, fingernail, fingerprints—all within a month.

Still, there are those skeptical of that story and of the pig bladder as a whole. But should this pig bladder thing prove to be successful, and you needed a quick hair loss cure, would you be willing to get the pig bladder injection?