In the News – The Role of Vitamin D in Treating Hair Loss
Snippet from the article:
Crucial to the hair-growth and balding process, scientists have found, are vitamin D and the microscopic receptors that bind to it in skin. These elements have become the focus for several research teams. (Supplements might offer health benefits for people lacking enough vitamin D, but they won’t bring back lost hair, researchers say.)
Some researchers, including those from the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, have identified molecules besides vitamin D that appear to activate the receptor and hold potential for future treatments. In July, Japanese researchers demonstrated in animals that adding vitamin D helped the process of using stem cells to generate new follicles.
Read the rest at the Wall Street Journal — The Search for a Baldness Cure
My friend Dr. Richard Shiell commented:
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“Plenty of sunlight and Vit D here in Australia (world’s highest rate of skin cancer). From my observation, our baldness rate and pattern-type is pretty much the same as elsewhere.
We are seeing Vit D deficiency in some Muslim women and children who cover-op and do not take advantage of our sunlight. I have not heard of any increase in hair loss. Kids at the beach these days are covered from head to knee as in the Victorian era so, if the author is correct, we should see more baldness in the future. I don’t believe it.
”It’s important to highlight the sentence from the article that states: “Supplements might offer health benefits for people lacking enough vitamin D, but they won’t bring back lost hair“.
In response to this news, some hair restoration doctors stated that they often recommend vitamin D as part of the treatment for women with balding or thinning hair. There does not seem to be a downside to this use, but I wouldn’t get too excited just yet about calling this a “cure”.
I hope we are near a cure. :(
I think that by 2020 there is a very high likelihood there will be something close enough to a cure that it will fix most people’s hair loss problems. I have a nice head of hair. So, I wish this didn’t happen because I don’t have balding problems. I want to have an advantage over the balding male population.
@gary brown I may have a receding hairline, but I can chat up a women. My friend however, has a fantastic head of hair, but he may as well be a robot (and his entire family have hair loss, so it’s just a matter of time).
The point is, it takes more than a head of hair to have an advantage. Taking from the fact you deliberately troll forums/website that focus on balding to make yourself feel better, you don’t strike me as the kind of person who has personality on his side.
@gary brown: Yes, you do have an advantage over me, when talking about hair… I’m a NW 2.5, maybe 3. But that doesn’t make you look better than me or other guys here. It’s not just about hair. Bye.
Why aren’t any politicians bald? Movie stars? Etc. Case and point.
Gary you are an idiot. Here’s why;
1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart
2) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Willis
3) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Statham
4) https://www.realbollywood.com/up_images/jude-law98981.jpg
5) https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01183/arts-graphics-2008_1183145a.jpg
Just some of the balding actors that have had more action from the opposite sex then you will ever ever have. You aren’t competition… you’re a weirdo with hair that trolls balding sites. Are you not telling us something ;)
@gary brown
why aren’t any politicians posting on balding forums talking about their food head of a hair? Movie stars? Etc.
Because they actually have a life.
Case and Point.
The phrase is not “case and point.” It’s “case in point.”
Listen up folks. I’m just being honest. I don’t want you baldies getting hair on those shiny slippery domes of yours. I pray it never happens. That’s it.
Gary brown, my IQ is above 80 so I have a distinct advantage over you and hope that you do not progress beyond your current 3rd grade education level. I just pray it never happens. Just being honest. That’s it.