Hair Loss

    January 2015 in “ Springer eBooks ”
    Peter A. Lio, Toral Patel, Neill T. Peters, Sarah Kasprowicz
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    TLDR Some alternative treatments may help with hair loss, but more evidence is needed to confirm their effectiveness.
    The document reviewed alternative treatments for hair loss, focusing on androgenetic alopecia (AGA) and alopecia areata (AA). It reported on small-scale studies: a study with 10 volunteers using raspberry ketone resulted in hair growth for 5 participants after 5 months, and a placebo-controlled study with 19 men using procyanidin B-2 showed significant hair improvement. For AA, a study with 40 patients found significant improvement using garlic gel with betamethasone, and another with 38 patients showed 86.9% experienced hair regrowth with onion juice. Aromatherapy with essential oils improved hair growth in 44% of an active group, and hypnotherapy improved anxiety and depression but not hair growth. The document concluded that while these treatments show promise, more substantial evidence is necessary to establish their efficacy compared to traditional treatments.
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