All Posts Tagged With: "Male Hair Loss"

An American doctor believes that a cure for baldness is on the horizon.

Dr Cotsarelis of the University of Pennsylvania has been investigating the cause of male baldness and believes he has discovered the cause. Using cell samples taken from hair transplant patients, one of the tests Dr Cotsarelis ran was looking at the number of stem cells in bald parts of the scalp compared to other places. Surprisingly he found that bald areas have the same number of stem cells as places with hair.

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Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT) is gaining popularity for men looking to overcome their baldness.

By the age of 50 around 40 percent of men will have some baldness and this can have large impacts on the self esteem. However just 20 percent of them are said to actually take measures to help stop the loss.

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