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5/29/2020 Hair-loss surgeons launch YouTube show This year are started a section for the "Follically Challenged". There are so many conversations and articles on the topic and I want make sure you are getting good information. This month I have an article for you from Professional Beauty - the bible of the beauty industry Hair-loss surgeons launch YouTube show  When two of Australia’s leading hair-loss surgeons got fed up with the false information regarding hair loss and its treatment, they decided to tackle the issue head-on. Doctors Russell Knudsen and Vikram Jayaprakash figured the best way to counter the misleading information online was to fight it where it mattered – they launched a new hair loss show on YouTube. And in a matter of a few months, the Hair Loss Show has gained almost 200,000 of YouTube views. Dr Russell Knudsen is a world-leading expert in the field of hair loss treatments and the founder of the highly respected Knudsen Clinic. He has over 35 years of experience and has performed more than 8,000 hair transplants. Dr Vikram Jayaprakash is a Board Diplomate Hair Restoration Surgeon who trained under Dr Knudsen and has been performing Hair Transplant procedures for nine years. The Hair Loss Show already has 27 episodes and in just a few months, has attracted over 4000 subscribers and four million impressions. The Hair Loss Show’s most popular episode so far is titled ‘Side Effects of Finasteride’, which currently has over 42,000 views on YouTube. “Unfortunately, Australian education about hair health is sorely lacking. Most Australians don’t understand how to maintain healthy hair or know what to do when they start losing it. It’s only when people start having hair problems that they suddenly start doing their research,” Dr Knudsen said. “We wanted to create a forum where people can learn about hair loss from the comfort of their own home. Most Australians don’t have the time and money to speak to a hair expert directly, but almost every Australian has an internet connection. We made the show online so it’s as accessible as possible.”  According to Dr Jayaprakash, so much time during consultations is spent correcting the false information that patients have consumed. “There is a lot of scaremongering and false information that is prevalent on the internet.” The Hair Loss Show covers a range of topics related to hair loss and hair health, for both men and women. So far, Drs Knudsen and Jayaprakash have covered topics like the causes of hair loss in both men and women. Treatment options including Finasteride, Minoxidil, Laser Therapy and Derma-rolling. And of course being Hair Transplant Surgeons, they also discuss various topics involving hair restoration surgery. “The response to the show has been outstanding. We get a lot of questions on the comments section of our videos. A lot more than we expected! We’re planning on filming more Q&A episodes so we can give some in-depth answers to people’s questions,” Dr Knudsen said. “We’re doing something no one else has tried and we’re finding that a lot of people are extremely grateful. There’s probably been the demand for a hair loss show for quite some time, and we just happened to be the first people to notice.” Since launching, the show has attracted viewers from all over Australia and a significant following from the US, UK and Canada. Welcome to The Hair Loss Show where Dr Vikram Jayaprakash and Dr Russell Knudsen discuss issues relating to hair loss in both men and women. Please make sure you subscribe to be kept up to date with all our latest videos. This year are started a section for the "Follically Challenged". There are so many conversations and articles on the topic and I want make sure you are getting good information. This month I have an article for you from The Guardian. The new growth in hair loss research With increasing evidence of its impact on mental health, scientists are pushing forward with breakthroughs on balding  Has there ever been more pressure to have a full and luscious head of hair? Whether it’s dating app snaps, Instagram selfies, or even that corporate headshot on LinkedIn, maintaining a youthful appearance has become a critical feature of modern life. Writing in his autobiography, the tennis player Andre Agassi described his hair loss as a young man as like losing “little pieces of my identity”. With such anxieties magnified by the digital world, it’s little wonder that the impact of male and female pattern baldness has been increasingly linked to various mental health conditions. Dr Coen Gho, founder of the Hair Science Institute – one of the world’s leading hair transplantation clinics with centres in London, Paris, Dubai, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Maastricht – has little doubt that the different lifestyle choices and pressures that come with millennial existence contribute heavily to concerns around hair loss. “Young people are more conscious about their appearance than ever before,” he says. “One particular contributory pattern that we’ve seen is that people are having serious relationships much later compared to 20 or 30 years ago. Now men are looking to find a partner in their 30s, which makes male pattern baldness more of a problem, as it tends to begin between the ages of 20 and 25.” But despite the prevalence of hair loss – male pattern baldness affects approximately 50% of men over the age of 50, while around 50% of women over the age of 65 suffer from female pattern baldness – a drug capable of stopping it in its tracks has so far proven elusive.  Medical texts dating back to 1550BC reveal that the ancient Egyptians tried rubbing pretty much everything into their scalps, from ground donkey hooves to hippopotamus fat, in a bid to halt the balding process. These days, the two most prominent medications are minoxidil and finasteride, but both are only marginally effective at halting the rate of hair loss and cannot stop it completely. In addition, both drugs have unpleasant side-effects, with finasteride being unsuitable for women and known to induce erectile dysfunction in some men. One of the main reasons we lack an effective way to prevent hair loss is that we still understand bafflingly little about the molecular mechanisms that underpin human hair growth and loss. Each hair follicle on our scalp is a miniature organ, which follows its own rhythmic cycle of growth, regression and rest throughout our lifetimes. With age, some of them become sensitive to hormones on the scalp, most notably dihydrotestosterone or DHT, which binds to the follicles and miniaturises them until they no longer produce visible hair. However, we know hardly anything about how this miniaturisation process happens, or how to prevent it. According to Prof Ralf Paus, a dermatologist at the University of Manchester, this is because hair loss is still viewed largely as a cosmetic problem, rather than a disease. Because of this, in the western world, neither industry nor academic funding bodies have been willing to spend substantial sums of money on hair research. Despite the scale of patient demand, they have been dissuaded by the knowledge that any drug that hits the market is unlikely to be covered by the NHS or insurance companies. “If you look at the sums pharma companies have spent on coming up with new cancer or heart disease drugs, this is in the billions,” Paus says. “These investments have just not been made into serious hair research.” Though hair loss may have an undoubtable psychological impact on sufferers, it can’t be compared with chronic life-threatening diseases, many of which are incurable. But there is increasing hope for those experiencing hair loss, as while we’re no closer to finding a way to prevent balding happening in the first place, scientists are developing increasingly novel and ingenuous ways to either replace or regenerate the lost hair. The next generation of transplants  With no drug to prevent your hair from falling out, cosmetic surgery has looked to fill the void. Over the past two decades hair transplants – which take hair follicles from DHT-resistant “donor areas” at the back and sides of the scalp and relocate them to cover up bald patches – have offered new hope for hair loss sufferers. Such is the demand that market analysts have predicted the value of the global hair transplant industry will exceed $24.8bn (£20.3bn) by 2024, and the techniques are becoming increasingly advanced. Gho has pioneered a method called partial longitudinal follicular unit extraction, which extracts only a small portion of each hair follicle. This means that the patient isn’t left with scarring on the back and sides of their head, a serious risk with some traditional transplant procedures, which remove strips of skin and graft them into the bald area. “We discovered that you don’t need the whole follicle, only a very small part, to produce a new hair to be transplanted into the recipient area,” he explains. “This means that after the treatment, the hairs in the donor area can be cut short, without any, or with minimal, visible density loss.” Despite such advances, one of the current limitations of hair transplants is that many patients tend to require more than one procedure if they continue to lose their hair. Patients who are completely bald may also lack sufficient follicles on the back and sides to cover the bald areas on top. Generating new hair from scratch  Instead of relying on donor hair, the way forward could be to use patient stem cells to grow whole hair follicles completely from scratch in the lab. These follicles could then be grown in unlimited quantities, and grafted on to the scalp. Many of these initiatives are taking place in Japan and South Korea, where such research is being bankrolled by either the government or private companies. “There’s more investment in hair research in Korea and Japan, I think due to cultural differences,” explains Ohsang Kwon, a dermatologist at Seoul National University hospital. “In the western world, a lot of men will shave their head when they lose their hair. It is awkward to do this in our culture because it looks like a sign of a criminal or gangster.” In the past year, a number of Japanese research groups have published reports that hint tantalisingly at a major breakthrough. At Yokohama National University, scientists led by Junji Fukuda have developed an experimental method for generating new hair follicles from stem cells in far higher quantities than ever before, while later this year, scientists at the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology will launch one of the first ever clinical trials with hair follicles grown entirely from stem cells. “We definitely hope that stem cell approaches will be a better option for severe hair loss patients who do not have sufficient hairs for hair transplantation,” says Fukuda. “Traditional hair transplantation doesn’t increase hair numbers in the scalp, but hair-regenerative medicine can do in principle, by growing stem cells outside the body.” In the future, 3D printing could even help do this on a large scale. At Columbia University in New York, Angela Christiano is working on creating “hair farms” using a grid of 3D-printed plastic moulds which mimic the exact shape of hair follicles. One of the major challenges faced when using stem cells to grow new hairs in a dish is that without the natural cues provided by the scalp, the cells don’t initially realise what they’re meant to do. Growing them in an artificial, hair-like environment helps stimulate them to make a hair, but scientists still have to solve some aesthetic challenges. “We now need to tackle some key questions, such as: what colour will the hair be?” she says. “How do we make it pigmented? Is the patient’s hair straight or curly, and how do we create that texture when growing them in a grid? We need to solve these questions before we can think about injecting them into patients’ scalps.” It all offers the potential to eliminate baldness for good. But Paus cautions that we still don’t know whether such methods would be safe, or end up being cosmetically pleasing. And even if they are, the cost will probably mean that they’re only accessible to the very rich. “In reality there are many, many problems which mean I don’t see it working quite yet,” he says. “If you create a new mini-organ from scratch, you need to be extra careful that this organ doesn’t grow out of control and become a tumour. It also needs to grow in a way that looks natural.” Reviving existing follicles  Rather than trying to grow completely new follicles, Paus thinks we should focus our efforts on trying to revive the ones we already have. He points out that even completely bald individuals still have 100,000 hair follicles all over their scalp. You just can’t see them.
“They’re miniaturised, so instead of making a normal long hair shaft, they only make a tiny, microscopically visible one,” he says. “But the organ is still there. So in order to solve the balding problem, we don’t need a single new hair follicle, we just need to get the ones already there to do their job properly again. If we could retransform these miniaturised follicles into big ones, we wouldn’t need a single hair transplant.” Over the last four years, Paus has been exploring one particularly innovative way of doing this. There are a small handful of drugs, such as the immunosuppressant cyclosporine, which cause unwanted hair growth as a side-effect. By studying this, Paus’s research group has identified a completely new pathway for stimulating hair follicles. “This [has] allowed us to discover some basic hair-growth control principles which could be used to find a completely new class of hair drugs,” he says. They have since found a series of compounds that appear to be highly effective at stimulating this pathway and inducing hair growth when tested on human hair follicle cells in the lab. If safe enough, they could soon be trialled as a new topical treatment in volunteers. As a result, while the holy grail of hair loss – preventing it completely – still remains a distant vision, there are enough promising treatments in the pipeline to allow even the baldest individuals to dream of new hair. For scientists, especially those in the western world, the hope is simply that such breakthroughs will encourage new investment in the field. “Hair is one of our most important social communication instruments, so new treatments are a huge market, a multimillion-dollar market that keeps growing,” says Paus. “There’s a vast economic potential from serious breakthroughs in hair research. But there needs to be more funding from government and industry to make them happen. That realisation hasn’t really happened yet.” This year are started a section for the "Follically Challenged". There are so many conversations and articles on the topic and I want make sure you are getting good information. This month I have an article for you from the New York Times. She Was Losing Fistfuls of Hair. What Was Causing It? Sudden hair loss may seem alarming, but it may be caused by a temporary stress and grow back.  A woman in my knitting group recently asked if any of us knew where she could buy a gray wig. Though she seemed to have an ample head of hair, she reported that she’d been losing fistfuls every time she brushed or washed it. Obviously very upset about what was happening, she said she didn’t want to wait until she was bald to find a substitute for her naturally gray hair.
She also wondered why, suddenly, this was happening and how it could be stopped. The dermatologist she consulted asked some telling questions and suggested the likely cause. Three months earlier, my friend had undergone surgery for colon cancer and, as if that weren’t enough of a stress, she had developed a serious postoperative infection. The delayed result, a form of diffuse hair loss called telogen effluvium, was causing her hair to fall out in frightening clumps. The good news was that absent another physical or psychological insult, within a year she most likely will have regained her normal head of hair and can donate the wig she bought to a gray-haired woman about to undergo chemotherapy. In a book about symptoms called “Am I Dying?!” by Drs. Christopher Kelly and Marc Eisenberg, both affiliated with the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the chapter on hair loss offers a simple description of the three stages of normal hair growth and how they might be disrupted. Under typical circumstances, people have about 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on their heads, with each hair follicle going through its growth cycle independently. Spared an underlying insult, about 90 percent of your hair is in the anagen, or growth, stage, which can last for years and result in long tresses unless cut. The remaining 10 percent is either in the catagen stage, lasting four to six weeks and during which the hairs start to loosen in their follicles, or the resting telogen stage of two to three months, when the hairs are ready to fall out and end up in the brush, on your clothes or in the shower drain. It’s normal to shed about 100 to 150 telogen phase hairs a day. But the loss of 100 or more hairs in one washing or brushing is not normal and, as with my friend, likely to cause alarm. This can happen when hair follicles in the anagen phase prematurely progress to the telogen phase and result in abnormal hair loss two to three months later. In the hair loss chapter of the symptoms book, edited by Dr. Lindsey Bordone, assistant professor of dermatology at Columbia, the authors note that “the intense stress associated with surgery, weight loss, childbirth and any other emotional experience can force most of your hairs into the telogen stage. Since this stage lasts an average of three months, most of your hairs start to fall out after you’ve moved on from the stressor,” prompting you to wonder why it is happening and what can be done to reverse course. Happily, there is a simple answer to the latter question. Assuming the stressful event has ended, consider getting a wig, head scarf, turban, cap or hat and wait until your hair grows back. Rest assured, if the hair loss was caused by a temporary stress, it will grow back, but patience is highly recommended. Regrowth is usually not apparent for four to six months and may take 12 to 18 months before it is cosmetically acceptable. There’s really nothing that can speed up the process, the doctors write, so don’t waste your money on supplements and other nonmedical hair loss remedies. Other possible causes of diffuse telogen hair loss include an overactive or underactive thyroid, with normal hair growth restored once the hormonal abnormality is corrected. Various chronic or inflammatory disorders, autoimmune diseases or chronic infections may also cause diffuse telogen hair loss. Nutritional deficiencies, especially of iron or zinc, protein, fatty acids or vitamin D, are other possible causes, as well as extreme caloric restriction and crash diets. Regardless of what you may suspect, getting a thorough medical checkup is highly recommended to determine a specific and often correctable cause of diffuse hair loss, Dr. Bordone urged. Loss of hair in the anagen phase is never normal and most commonly results from a toxic exposure like treatment with anticancer drugs. Abnormal hair loss is usually noticed a week or two after the start of chemotherapy and is most apparent by two months. Scalp hair is most likely to be affected, but all facial and body hair may also be lost. However, hair will start to grow back within weeks after chemotherapy ends. Other causes of anagen hair loss that can be permanent include radiation and heavy metal poisoning. In addition to chemotherapeutic drugs, medications that can sometimes cause hair loss include warfarin, steroids, birth control pills, lithium, amphetamines and vitamin A supplements, though hair will most often grow back when the offending medication is stopped. The most common form of hair loss is age-related and is not associated with any underlying disease, deficiency or distressing situation. It is androgenetic alopecia, most commonly called male-pattern baldness, or female-pattern baldness when it affects women. This type of hair loss is most common in white men, affecting about half of them by age 50. White women tend to keep their hair longer, though about a third of them experience hair loss marked by a general thinning out of their hair by age 70, the Columbia doctors report. Several medications are available that can help to counter androgenetic alopecia, at least to some extent. One is minoxidil, a scalp cream sold as Rogaine, among other brands; another is a pill called finasteride, sold as Propecia. The latter can help to shrink an enlarged prostate and improve urination, but in 1 percent of men it can cause sexual dysfunction. Women can also use minoxidil to counter hair-thinning caused by androgenetic alopecia. However, some women contribute to their hair loss by adopting tight hairstyles like a ponytail or cornrows that tug on the hair, practices that prompted the Columbia doctors to recommend letting your hair down. The most mystifying form of hair loss, called alopecia areata, results from an attack on hair follicles by the body’s own immune system. It usually results in smooth, coin-size bald patches on the head, although the autoimmune attack on hair follicles can also affect a man’s beard, all the hair on a person’s head, or all the hair on the entire body. Hair regrows within a year in about half of patients, although hair loss can sometimes recur, the doctors said. Jane Brody is the Personal Health columnist, a position she has held since 1976. She has written more than a dozen books including the best sellers “Jane Brody’s Nutrition Book” and “Jane Brody’s Good Food Book.” A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 4, 2020, Section D, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: She Was Losing Fistfuls of Hair. But Why? I've been accumulating articles and news stories on hair loss and different treatments for a while now. Many have already been shared with you in previews newsletters. There are so many conversations on this topic that I wanted to add a new section that focuses on what's happening up there. You know, UP THERE ☝️☝️. I will have more in the months ahead. So without further ado...  Hair Transplant Market to Hit $31 Billion by 2025: Global Market Insights, Inc.
SELBYVILLE, Del., Nov. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Hair transplant market is expected to surpass USD 31 billion by 2025, according to a new research report by Global Market Insights, Inc. Rising number of people suffering from hair thinning problems will primarily drive the hair transplant industry growth over the projected timeframe. Some major findings of the hair transplant market report include:
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