Hair Loss Pedia

Everything you need to know about hair loss

Caffeine was identified as a stimulator of hair growth in vitro. Significant growth suppression was found in hair follicles treated with 5 µg/ml testosterone. This was counteracted by caffeine in concentrations of 0.001% and 0.005%. Moreover, caffeine alone led to a significant stimulation of hair follicle growth.
This is a very important fact for management of [...]

Don’t ever get fooled by individuals and companies, that sell hair loss solutions and hair loss products, who claim to restore every strand of hair on your scalp to make the hair on your head look the same when you were a teen.
Toppik is mostly referred to techniques used to make thin hair look more [...]

Like any other medicine, homeopathy can only work towards treating the conditions that indirectly causes hair loss in men, women and children. But it can not cure hair loss that’s caused by male pattern baldness in men.
Homeopathy could be very effective in treating illness and diseases that indirectly causes hair follicles to shed hair in [...]

Hair oil promoting hair growth is a myth. The fact is that oil does not nourish hair but only helps in styling and shaping the unruly hair. If you come across a hair oil product in the market that claims to promote hair, just don’t believe it.
Hair oil does not affect the health of hair [...]

It’s a myth! There is no relation between hair growth and shaving hair at all. Hair growth directly depends on the health of hair follicles.
Shaving hair frequently does not affect the health of hair follicles in any way and hence does not promote hair growth. Many people have been found to believe that shaving hair [...]

Scientists have been speculating since very long if smoking causes hair loss or increases an already ongoing loss of hair. If not hair loss, smoking certainly causes damage to other functions of your body and may indirectly affect hair growth. Before we arrive at a conclusion, let’s look at what happens when you smoke.
When you [...]

DHT stands for Dihydrotestosterone. It’s a by-product of the male hormone called testosterone. Hair loss in vast majority of men is caused by DHT alone.
Testosterone converts to DHT with the aid of an enzyme called 5-alpha-reductase. The DHT is then induced into the blood and flows to all the parts of the body including your [...]

Chlorine in water does not cause hair loss or increases it. It’s a myth. There could be some other chemical in water, that was used to treat it, which may cause hair loss but chlorine alone is not known to be causing hair loss.
There have been many studies, conducted on swimmers, to determine if chlorine [...]