Wow is this exciting or what!

Dr. Angela Christiano from the Columbian University Medical Center has found eight genes that contribute to alopecia areata.  This is ground breaking news and you need to read this article if you suffer from thinning hair.

View this article at this link
http://naaf.convio.net/site/MessageViewer?em_id=3241.0&dlv_id=7021

I love when things like this come across my desk and I’m able to share them with all of you.  Please take the time to go over this information and I hope that there is something here that either helps brings light to your situation or gives you a reason to speak with your doctor.  This really excites me and has made my day.

Take care everyone and have a great Canada Day or for my US friends have a great Independence Day.

Look Good, Feel Great!

Dale
www.vollumaforwomen.com

For many women with hair loss, hair extensions may cause more harm than good. Stylists may advise women with thinning hair and hair loss that extensions are the best solution for them. And why not? Besides being profitable for the stylist, extensions look great, giving you the volume, body and thicker hair that you want quickly – albeit expensively.

When considering extensions, it’s best to start with a long and trusting relationship with your stylist but before trying extensions, know your type of hair loss and discover what type of systems will look good and not harm it further. For example if you have rapid, temporary hair loss such as telogen effluvium or you fail the hair pull test, extensions will likely be a waste of time and money. If you suffer from genetic hair loss (androgenetic alopecia) you may enjoy good results.

Educate yourself on the system being proposed, not only the method of attachment but especially the removal process and any other potential associated risks. Find out more about the dangers of removing extensions at http://www.bignews.biz/?id=806831#

Educate yourself and make the best choice for your hair loss!

Christopher Denison
www.vollumaforwomen.com

Kids Shunned for Hair Loss Get Help From Their Own Stem Cells

July 10 (Bloomberg) — Children with alopecia areata, a condition that causes extensive, sometimes complete hair loss, grew hair after being injected with stem cells drawn from their own scalp in a small study.

Most of the five girls and three boys who had widespread baldness showed regrowth of as much as half of their hair in a preliminary study from Marwa Fawzi, a dermatologist at the University of Cairo Faculty of Medicine. Before the experimental treatment, some of the children had splotches of hair and baldness; others were almost totally bald.

Alopecia areata can occur at any age in either gender and there are no FDA-approved treatments, according to the National Alopecia Areata Foundation. Researchers believe people may be genetically predisposed to the condition, which can be aggravated by stress, Fawzi said. Children who get it are often shunned and teased by others, she said in an interview today at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in Barcelona, Spain, where she presented her findings.

“It’s an emotionally devastating disorder for children,” she said.

Alopecia areata is distinct from the more common male pattern baldness that many men endure as they age. Fawzi has not tested the stem-cell injection treatment for male pattern baldness.

The Cairo researcher took small amounts of skin from the scalps of the children, isolated the hair follicle stem cells that stimulate hair production, and grew them in the lab, increasing the number of cells. After one month, she put the cells back into the scalps of the children, with numerous injections across the bald areas of their heads.

Hair Regrowth

She evaluated the children at one, three and six months after the injections. At the six-month mark, five of the children had at least a 50 percent increase in the amount of hair on their heads, two patients had a smaller increase and one had no change in quantity of hair, she said.

She also took new skin samples and examined the hair follicles themselves and could see that the injected stem cells had migrated into the follicles. There, the stem cells stimulated the follicles to transition from a dormant phase to a hair-generating phase, Fawzi said.

In a poster that she presented at the meeting, she showed photographs of an 8-year-old boy named Mahmoud who was almost completely bald before the treatment and had a nearly full head of hair afterward.

Mahmoud was socially isolated before and always wore a hat to hide his baldness, she said. He now calls her almost every day to talk and thank her for the treatment.

Fawzi plans a larger study of at least 30 children to test the treatment. Each child will receive stem-cell injections in some of the bald areas of their head and placebo injections in others. She will then be able to evaluate the differences in a controlled way, she said.

If the treatment works, she plans to look into its usefulness for androgenic alopecia, better known as male pattern baldness.

To contact the reporter on this story: Rob Waters in San Francisco at rwaters5@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: July 10, 2009 15:03 EDT

More encouraging news for those with alopecia areata!

Christopher Denison
www.vollumaforwomen.com

Hello friends:  I spend time researching interesting and relevant articles about hair loss and I came across this interesting one.  My sister, who has multiple chemical sensitivity has been using Emu Oil as her body lotion for several years.  She finds it soothes her skin and also helps with her fibromyalgia.  So, I thought it would be something that some of you would be interested in.

http://www.naturalnews.com/022910_hair_loss_emu_oil_health.html

Look Good, Feel Great!

Dale
www.vollumaforwomen.com ]]> http://vollumaforwomen.com/blog/emu-oil-a-natural-nutrient-can-stop-or-even-reverse-hair-loss/feed/ 0 http://vollumaforwomen.com/blog/great-news-for-trichotillomania-sufferers/ http://vollumaforwomen.com/blog/great-news-for-trichotillomania-sufferers/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:39:40 +0000 Dale http://volluma.com/blog/great-news-for-trichotillomania-sufferers/

Wow, what a breakthrough from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/GeneralPsychiatry/14966

This is great news for sufferers of Trichotillomania.

Even though there is no FDA approval at this point, a 56% improvement rate looks very promising!

Look Good, Feel Great!

Dale
www.vollumaforwomen.com ]]> http://vollumaforwomen.com/blog/great-news-for-trichotillomania-sufferers/feed/ 0 http://vollumaforwomen.com/blog/i-hope-mary-takes-my-advice/ http://vollumaforwomen.com/blog/i-hope-mary-takes-my-advice/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:38:42 +0000 Dale http://volluma.com/blog/?p=127 I was at the bank yesterday and couldn’t help but notice that I could see right through my teller’s hair, it was like looking through the trees in the winter.

Now Mary is an attractive middle aged woman, immaculately dressed with beautiful make-up and her hair, what was left of it, was impeccably styled. She was obviously a professional woman who cared about her looks – why would she endure that? She obviously didn’t realize that she has cosmetic options and didn’t have to suffer.

It is because of women like Mary that I wrote the book “10 Styling Secrets for Women with Thinning Hair” because women, regardless of the reason and the degree of their hair loss, have many cosmetic and styling options to help them look great and feel more confident about their looks.

When my banking was done, I thanked her and gave her my business card and told her she might find my free e-book helpful. The look in her eyes seemed to vary between suspicion and hope.

Now, with on-line banking, I don’t get into the branch much any more but I’ll be back to see if she’s taken my advice – it’ll be obvious.

Look Good, Feel Great!

Dale
www.vollumaforwomen.com

I wondered to myself how she could justify trying to treat something she didn’t understand. Taking action is great but, consulting with experts, creating a plan and sticking with it is an even better solution. Ah, the impatience of youth!

I explained that the causes of hair loss for women are many and varied and that if her thinning hairline was simply the result of a regular, tightly pulled hairstyle (traction alopecia), then wearing her hair loose for a while could reverse the problem and allow a full, natural recovery.

I further explained that the abundance and quality of hair is an indicator of overall health and that only a doctor could truly determine the underlying reason for her specific situation, possible spotting something more serious. The cause could be relatively simple and resolvable over time, like diet, stress and medications but could also be more complex like heredity (androgenetic alopecia), hormonal fluctuation and disease or even some combination. Undiagnosed, her hair problem and potentially her health, could deteriorate further.

I asked her if she wouldn’t feel better knowing what the cause was and she agreed she couldn’t afford not to go.

Look Good, Feel Great!

Dale
www.vollumaforwomen.com