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The Days Of Crappy Science May Be Over For The Hair-Loss Crowd!:
There are many parts of the Health & Wellness space that get the glam and the really flashy solutions.
But there are other segments of it that seem to get what you might call, “Crap Science” or just plain neglect.
Serious diseases? Super-fancy drugs & biotechs!
Everyday problems? Ahh, just grab a handful of supplements & pray!
Women’s hair-coloring aisle? 40 million different shades of Nice ‘n’ Easy, etc.
Men’s hair-coloring aisle? Just For Men! Three shades. Now get the hell outta here, ya punk!
But now, one of the most unfortunate, “Oh, just live with it!”-problems might be getting a little bit more attention…
The Short Answer:
- Hair-loss is a problem that hasn’t really been cured yet.
- Almost all of the treatments are iffy or plagued with side-effect.
- Even the medication-based ones demand perpetual dependence.
- A 21-day trial may be changing all that.
- The new product, based on a DNA-derived sugar may be another fix.
- While trying to heal wounds, it also encouraged hair growth.
- It works the same way as Dermarolling, by increasing circulation.
- Within 2-3 weeks, lab mice grew back 80-90% of their hair.
- The new gel is just as effective as Minoxidil.
- It also looks better than all the other solutions as well.
- So far, there appear to be zero side-effects.
- It also may do all the work it needs to in a short period of time with little-to-no perpetual dosage requirements.
- Because it’s not based on hormones, it may also work for everyone.
Read on to find out the details…
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Anyone With Hair Loss Lives With Less-Than-Great Solutions:
That branch of !SCIENCE! getting the love is: Hair Loss!
Which is great, because it can be a little embarrassing.
And most of the time people are told to just get over it, while sometimes covertly being made to feel like it’s their own fault, not their genetics.
But the days of patchy-looking solutions might be over.
-Which is a Godsend for people less attractive than Bruce Willis or Michael Jordan.
An Accidental Discovery Turns Out To Be Great News!:
So in a 21 day trial on lab mice, researchers from England and Pakistan tried out a very natural-sounding solution.
Their magic potion? A biological sugar that comes from DNA.
And like many great discoveries in SCIENCE, it was also an accident!
The two teams caught onto it when this weird “genetic sugar” was used to help accelerate wound-healing.
What they found by accident of course, was HAIR GROWTH!
And so did their more formalized studies on it later!
And The Great Results Showed Up Pretty Fast, Too!:
Within 2 weeks of treatment with the new stuff in a gel, lab mice grew back almost all their lost hair!
By 3 weeks at the end of the study, it was even fuller, reaching a regrowth of 80-90%!!
Even better, just by results alone, it was just as effective as the only topical to show results, Minoxidil.
-BOOM!
But the more encouraging part of that is this more-naturally-derived substance might have:
1) Better benefits
2) Longer-lasting benefits
3) Fewer side-effects
DNA Sugar Gel Works The Same Way As One Successful Treatment:
What’s interesting about this genetic sugar (called 2d2R, which let’s face it, they should rename R2-D2) is that it bears a strange resemblance to another hair-loss solution.
-Microneedling!
One of the few things you’ll see actually working, not in Miraculous fashion, but like over-the-course-of-six-months-eventually on YouTube videos is Dermarolling/Dermastamping/Microneedling.
And the way that works is all these tiny little wounds encourage blood-flow to the area,
Which then adjacently gets nourishment to all the hair-bulbs and gets you your long, luscious, lovely locks back so you can look just like Rick James or Randy Watson from “Sexual Chocolate”.
And that is the exact same mechanism this new sugar-gel is using.
-Just without all the poking-holes-in-your-head stuff.
The New Fix Is Also Looking Better Than Everything Else We Have:
All of this is great news.
Because the only real alternatives we have to Minoxidil and Microneedling are:
1) Saw Palmetto
2) Beta-Sitosterol
3) Propecia
4) Just plain going bald
The difference between the first two being a toss-up with the second being stronger, but the first being wider-spectrum
And the third one, which is a pill you pop to give systemic-effects, has all kinds of unpleasant side-effects.
These include ED, testicular pain, breast pain, reduced libido, and depression.
Not a lot of fun going on there!
DNA Sugar Results Might Also Be As Permanent As Dermarolling:
The other pieces of great news for everyone are,
1) That the gel has only been tested on male mice but,
It will probably work on women as well, because it doesn’t work with hormones, but with blood-flow.
That is also a Godsend, because while 80% of men will experience hair-loss by age 70,
40% of the female population will experience hair-loss by the tender age of 50!
2) The other nice part of DNA-sugar is it may not even be necessary to continue past a certain time,
-Just the way hair comes back pretty permanently from microneedling!
That is not at all the case with pharmaceuticals like Minoxidil and Propecia.
You have to take those things as long as you want to keep the new hair!
So here’s to hoping another amazing discovery makes it out of the lab and into the pharmacy,
So we can all get back to growing out the afros of our dreams!
References & Links:
• Source: U.Sheffield
• More Coverage: HairLossBuddy Beta Sitosterol[ARCHIVE] | HairLossBuddy Saw Palmetto[ARCHIVE]
• Source Study: FrontiersInPharmacol – Stimulation of hair regrowth in an animal model of androgenic alopecia using 2-deoxy-D-ribose
