June 2024 in “Current Developments in Nutrition” In this study, KeraGLO, a nutritional supplement with hydrolyzed keratin, was shown to significantly improve skin wrinkle depth, smoothness, moisture, firmness, and hair health in healthy adult females over a 90-day period at both 500mg and 1000mg doses compared to baseline.
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January 2015 in “Current problems in dermatology” This review discusses environmental factors like UV radiation and smoking that affect hair health and highlights the potential role of nutrition, but it reports no new results.
This study reported that high cholesterol levels were linked to increased prostate cancer risk, while selenium supplementation affected gene expression, suggesting nutritional and clinical factors might influence prostate cancer risk and biology.
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May 2023 in “Frontiers in immunology” This review discusses how environmental factors like lifestyle, nutrition, and vitamin deficiencies may influence autoimmune diseases such as MS, SLE, and AA, highlighting associations with vitamin D levels and dietary interventions, but notes a lack of conclusive evidence for their roles in disease pathogenesis.
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June 2018 in “International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics” This study found that among children aged 1 to 5 with nutritional dermatoses, lower socioeconomic status and dietary fallacies were major factors contributing to poor nutritional status and skin issues.
February 2025 in “Indus journal of bioscience research.” In this study of 200 pregnant women in District Mardan, researchers found a high prevalence of zinc deficiency, with 63% having low zinc levels, alongside dietary and lifestyle factors that may influence maternal and fetal health.
May 2024 in “Internattional journal of current innovation in advance research” This review discusses PCOD, highlighting its hormonal abnormalities and contributing factors, such as lifestyle and genetics. The authors emphasized that lifestyle changes and medications are central to effectively managing symptoms and improving fertility in impacted women.
December 2018 in “Journal of Patan Academy of Health Sciences” This study found that three-quarters of patients experienced hair loss following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, with female gender, preoperative serum folic acid, and percent excess weight loss as significant risk factors.
October 2024 in “Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association” This letter discusses the various risk factors associated with premature greying of hair, highlighting genetic predispositions, nutritional deficiencies, stress, and lifestyle factors, while noting a lack of conclusive data on effective interventions, as detailed in the reviewed studies.
March 2026 in “Journal of Health Wellness and Community Research” In this study of young adults in Lahore, Pakistan, researchers reported a 55.2% prevalence of premature graying before age 30, commonly linked with factors like family history, nutritional deficiencies, hair loss, oily scalp, anxiety, and smoking.
This study found a higher prevalence of PCOS among young women, with significant associations to factors like diabetes, non-vegetarian diet, and family history.
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October 1961 in “Experimental Biology and Medicine” This study found that rabbits fed a diet deficient in Vitamin E developed severe muscular dystrophy that was not fully prevented by adding selenium, Vitamin E supplements, or natural feedstuffs, indicating other nutritional deficiencies.
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January 2017 in “American Journal of Biological Anthropology” This review explores the various genetic, hormonal, environmental, and nutritional factors proposed to explain the historically shorter stature of Sardinians, while reporting no new empirical findings.
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May 2009 in “Annales de Dermatologie et de Vénéréologie” This article reviews environmental factors contributing to androgenic alopecia and emphasizes the importance of giving patients advice to manage hair loss; it reports no new clinical findings.
June 2025 in “Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology” This study examined the factors contributing to gray hair, such as genetics and lifestyle, and found that while graying correlates with some health conditions, it is primarily a physiological process rather than a pathological one.
July 2012 in “Hair transplant forum international” This article reviews potential factors contributing to hair loss in androgenetic alopecia beyond genetic predispositions and discusses current knowledge without presenting new clinical results.
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September 2010 in “Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care” This review discusses the lack of specific micronutrient supplementation recommendations for hair loss in patients on long-term parenteral nutrition and reports no new clinical results.
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January 2016 in “Journal of cosmetology & trichology” This review discusses the emerging pathophysiological factors and potential new therapies for androgenetic alopecia beyond traditional treatments, but reports no new results.
May 2026 in “International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management” This review reports that nutritional and lifestyle factors, such as micronutrient deficiencies and stress, play a significant role in hair health and loss, but emphasizes that evidence for interventions remains limited and more research is needed to establish clear clinical guidelines.
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January 1981 in “Springer eBooks” Environmental factors like temperature and nutrition affect hair growth, with humans showing seasonal hair growth differences.
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May 2014 in “InTech eBooks” This review discusses the genetic and androgen-related factors in androgenetic alopecia, highlighting a specific polymorphism in the AR protein associated with male pattern hair loss, and reports no new clinical results.
This article discusses the impact of lifestyle factors on skin conditions and STDs, highlighting the need for more attention to environmental, psychological, and social influences on dermatological health; it reports no new results.
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May 1993 in “Archives of Disease in Childhood” Children's hair loss can be caused by many factors, including autoimmune diseases, emotional stress, genetics, and infections, with treatment and prognosis varying.
July 2023 in “Hair transplant forum international” This abstract suggests that hair integrity is influenced by both external factors like physical damage and internal factors such as nutrition, and proposes a "hair diet" as a comprehensive approach to address these issues and improve hair health.
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July 2008 in “Nutrition reviews” This review discusses environmental epigenomics and its potential impact on gene regulation and phenotypic outcomes, using the Avy mouse model to illustrate nutritional and environmental effects on the fetal epigenome without presenting new findings.
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August 2022 This review examines the structure and function of the skin in goats and the factors affecting fiber growth, particularly in cashmere and mohair-producing breeds, without presenting new research data.
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August 2021 in “GSC biological and pharmaceutical sciences” This article reviews various causes of hair loss, including genetic and environmental factors, and explores different medicinal plants that may help prevent or treat hair loss.
September 2026 in “European Journal Pharmaceutical and Medical Research” This source discusses the various causes of premature greying of hair, highlighting lifestyle, genetic factors, and nutritional deficiencies, and contrasts mainstream dermatology's focus on nutritional supplementation with homeopathy's holistic treatment approach for long-term management.
April 2024 in “Tạp chí Y học Thảm hoạ và Bỏng” This review discusses various treatment options for androgenetic alopecia, considering factors such as effectiveness, side effects, and cost, but reports no new clinical results.
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October 2022 in “PubMed” This review examines alopecia, its causes, the impact of micronutrients, and the role of the Mediterranean diet, noting conflicting data and a need for more research on diet's effect on hair loss.