Hair Loss Information

Decreased blood flow is a factor in hair loss.

Decreased blood flow
leads to hair loss.

1) Consistent blood flow to all parts of the scalp declines as you age.

Blood transports nutrients and oxygen to all parts of your body, including your hair follicles. This is how your hair gets the nutrients it needs to survive. The efficiency with which your blood circulates through your body may decline as you age, diminishing the amount of nutrients your hair gets “fed”.

Studies from Butterworth Hospital in Michigan and the University Of Copenhagen in Denmark show that balding men have lower blood flows than non-balding controls.

Follicare® uses several powerful ingredients such as minoxidil, Procapil®, Kapilarine, nettle, benzyl nicotinate, ginkgo biloba, niacin, rosemary, to promote blood flow to the scalp.

Conversion of excess testosterone into DHT contributes to hair loss

Build up of DHT
destroys hair follicles.

2) Excessive conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) leads to destruction of hair follicles.

After years of thinking that testosterone was the “culprit” in male patter baldness, in the 1970’s and 1980’s, researchers finally turned their attention to DHT, a derivative of testosterone.

Testosterone combines with an enzyme called 5 alpha reductase to create dihydrotestosterone (DHT). DHT attaches to hair follicles and literally causes them to shrink – making it impossible for the follicles to grow hair.

Blocking the action of 5-AR and consequently decreasing excessive DHT is critical to stopping hair loss. Follicare® uses several powerful ingredients such as saw palmetto, beta sitosterol, zinc, stinging nettle extract, vitamin B6 and gingko biloba to block the action of 5-AR and DHT formation.

Lack of nutrients contributes to hair loss

Nutritional deficiencies
starve hair follicles.

3) Nutritional deficiencies starve hair follicles of “food” needed to grow healthy hair.

Your hair needs the proper amounts of the proper nutrients to continue to grow. Unfortunately, as you age, you process nutrients from food less efficiently than you used to. In addition, you just don’t base your eating decisions on hair optimizing your diet for hair health. Replenishing key nutrients will help you grow healthy hair and as a bonus improve your health in many other ways.

Follicare® contains the proper vitamins, minerals and herbs in the proper clinically studied amounts to help you maintain healthy-looking hair.

Sebum, inflammation and oxidative stress contribute to hair loss

Sebum, inflammation and
free radicals contribute
to hair loss.

4) Sebum oil build-up, scalp inflammation and oxidation damage from free radicals all contribute to hair loss.

Sebum is an oil produced by sebaceous glands attached to your hair follicles. Sebum contains the damaging chemical DHT that destroys follicles. Plus, when the oil solidifies, it can plug your follicles and become a breeding ground for bacteria that can damage the scalp.

Inflammation is your body’s protection mechanism against foreign invaders – such as bacteria or chemicals from hair care products. Studies from the University of Pennsylvania found that scalp inflammation plays a role in hair loss.

Free radicals damage follicle cells and more importantly oxidize DHT and testosterone, which causes further hair loss. In addition Japanese researchers found that oxidized sebum kills cells in the papilla – the base of the follicle where hair is formed.

Follicare® contains several powerful ingredients such as aloe vera, rosemary, sage, chamomile to scrub away sebum, sooth inflammation and fight free radicals.

5) Weak bond or anchoring of the hair follicle to the scalp.

Your hair is anchored to the scalp through the strength and stability of bonds at the base of where the follicle attaches to the scalp. These bonds are between the amino acids lysine and glutamine that are found in hair proteins. Those amino acids are formed by the enzyme transglutaminase. Therefore transglutaminase is imperative to creating the amino acids that form the bond between the hair and scalp. The stronger the bond, the less likely that hair will fall out.

Fortunately, Follicare® contains an enzyme called GluPeptate™ which helps support the hair-scalp bond. In fact, in a recent placebo controlled study, 89% of those using GluPeptate™ experienced a significant decrease in their hair loss. It works in two ways…

First, it induces the synthesis of the enzyme transglutaminase. Second, it provides a platform upon which the transglutaminase can form bonds between the amino acids lycine and glutamine found in hair proteins, increasing the strength of the hair.