Regenera Activa, Houston

There have been many medical treatments that allegedly grow hair, all the way back to the physicians of ancient Persia, where topical rosemary juice was recommended.  A few of these may work in nutritional hair loss, which is rarely seen outside of starving populations.  Recent research in genetics and inter-cellular communications within tissues has shown promise by providing a mechanism that can reverse the miniaturization process in early androgenetic alopecia in males and female pattern hair loss as well.

We have known for years that cells migrate, or change their location, not only through the bloodstream, but also within solid tissues.  For instance, we know that the hair follicle stem cells that ultimately produce the hair shaft, originate not in the bulb at the bottom of the hair follicle, but higher up, near the junction of the upper and middle third of the follicle.  They migrate from there to the bulb, where they are used to produce the hair shaft.  Recently it was discovered that both fat and hair follicle stem cells migrate through the subcutaneous fat in and out of hair follicles, communicating with other cells around along their path.  Based upon this insight, an Italian company has postulated that if they could move cells from follicles not sensitive to the male hormone (DHT) into the area where the hair follicles are sensitive to DHT, they may migrate into the sensitive hair follicles and encourage them not to miniaturize and stop growth.