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Recent scientific experiments using mice have shown that new hair follicles can be induced to grow in new skin when the wound healing process is altered using a wnt protein. This protein caused mature skin cells to behave like embryonic skin cells and form new hair follicles.

The research into this potential hair loss treatment is in the early stages and it remains to be seen if the new hair follicles stimulated to grow in the balding areas could be made to be resistant to balding.

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Recently there has been a great deal of discussion and controversy about the recent FDA approval of low level laser therapy. Some members of our discussion forum feel that the marketers of these low level laser hair loss treatments have been misrepresenting this very limited approval for safety by presenting it as if it were an endorsement of their effectiveness in treating hair loss.

In reality the FDA approval for devices like the Laser Max Hair Comb is not based on any measure of their effectiveness as a hair loss treatment. Rather such laser hair therapy devices have merely been FDA approved recently for being non harmful.

Yet the marketers of these low level laser hair therapies have been cleverly touting their products FDA approval in press releases and their advertisements as if it were now proven to be an effective FDA approved hair loss product like Rogaine or Minoxidil.

To learn more about this hot topic and view some of the debate, visit the following discussion forum topics:

What does FDA Approval of Low Light Laser Therapy really mean?

Dr. Alan Feller’s rebuttal of laser hair therapy used by Advanced Hair Studio

Dr. Bauman advocates that laser therapy MIGHT have some benefit.

This comprehensive CBC web report chronicles “a study conducted by Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, director of the neuromuscular and neurometabolic clinic at McMaster University in Hamilton and Simon Melov of the Buck Institute for Age Research in Novato, Calif., wherein they compared tissue samples from 25 healthy older men and women who did six months of weight training and a similar group of 26 younger people.”

“Exercise was linked to a reversal back to levels similar to those of younger adults.”

 “Melov said the researchers were surprised at the extent of the results in humans.

‘The fact that their 'genetic fingerprints' so dramatically reversed course gives credence to the value of exercise, not only as a means of improving health, but of reversing the aging process itself, which is an additional incentive to exercise as you get older.’"

This study shows that it is never too late to start an exercise program.  Check with your doctor if you are starting from scratch.

There is no way to reverse the aging process, but a regular exercise program may be the closest thing there is.

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