michael barry
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Hi guys,
I visited L'Oreal's website (loreal.com) and read about their research into baldness. They tracked balding men at European hospitals and found that the balding guys had more collagen built up around miniaturizing follicles than the non-balders. They had pictures of excess collagen surrounding the epithleal layers of a smaller follicle and showed them squeezing it tighter than a regular follicle.
L'Oreal claims to have looked at 150 different molecules and settled on one called AMINEXIL as the one that could slow collagen production. They market a product in Europe that is not available here under that name and one of L'Oreal's subsidiary names (for example Garnier Fructis shampoos are made by L'Oreal, but they are marketed toward 20-35 yr. olds).
The site can be navigated toward technological breaktrhougs or the explicit web page (if I type it right) was loreal.com/_en/_ww/research/innovations/aminexil.aspx?
Kevin McElwee, moderator of Keratin.com and big time hairloss researcher (he's some kind of genetic engineer-superscientist dude), believes L'Oreal is wrong about this.
I personally believe that its just another physical expression in the very complex phenomenon of male pattern baldness, much like overproduction of super-oxides or excess sebum production or inflammation. However, seeing that picture of that squeezed miniaturizing hair brought S.Foote's hydrolic theory to my mind. Have a great eve guys.......
I visited L'Oreal's website (loreal.com) and read about their research into baldness. They tracked balding men at European hospitals and found that the balding guys had more collagen built up around miniaturizing follicles than the non-balders. They had pictures of excess collagen surrounding the epithleal layers of a smaller follicle and showed them squeezing it tighter than a regular follicle.
L'Oreal claims to have looked at 150 different molecules and settled on one called AMINEXIL as the one that could slow collagen production. They market a product in Europe that is not available here under that name and one of L'Oreal's subsidiary names (for example Garnier Fructis shampoos are made by L'Oreal, but they are marketed toward 20-35 yr. olds).
The site can be navigated toward technological breaktrhougs or the explicit web page (if I type it right) was loreal.com/_en/_ww/research/innovations/aminexil.aspx?
Kevin McElwee, moderator of Keratin.com and big time hairloss researcher (he's some kind of genetic engineer-superscientist dude), believes L'Oreal is wrong about this.
I personally believe that its just another physical expression in the very complex phenomenon of male pattern baldness, much like overproduction of super-oxides or excess sebum production or inflammation. However, seeing that picture of that squeezed miniaturizing hair brought S.Foote's hydrolic theory to my mind. Have a great eve guys.......