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Recent scientific experiments using mice have shown that new hair follicles can be induced to grow in new skin when the wound healing process is altered using a wnt protein. This protein caused mature skin cells to behave like embryonic skin cells and form new hair follicles. The research into this potential hair loss treatment is [...]

Recent scientific experiments using mice have shown that new hair follicles can be induced to grow in new skin when the wound healing process is altered using a wnt protein. This protein caused mature skin cells to behave like embryonic skin cells and form new hair follicles.

The research into this potential hair loss treatment is in the early stages and it remains to be seen if the new hair follicles stimulated to grow in the balding areas could be made to be resistant to balding.

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Recently there has been a great deal of discussion and controversy about the recent FDA approval of low level laser therapy. Some members of our discussion forum feel that the marketers of these low level laser hair loss treatments have been misrepresenting this very limited approval for safety by presenting it as if it were an [...]

Recently there has been a great deal of discussion and controversy about the recent FDA approval of low level laser therapy. Some members of our discussion forum feel that the marketers of these low level laser hair loss treatments have been misrepresenting this very limited approval for safety by presenting it as if it were an endorsement of their effectiveness in treating hair loss.

In reality the FDA approval for devices like the Laser Max Hair Comb is not based on any measure of their effectiveness as a hair loss treatment. Rather such laser hair therapy devices have merely been FDA approved recently for being non harmful.

Yet the marketers of these low level laser hair therapies have been cleverly touting their products FDA approval in press releases and their advertisements as if it were now proven to be an effective FDA approved hair loss product like Rogaine or Minoxidil.

To learn more about this hot topic and view some of the debate, visit the following discussion forum topics:

What does FDA Approval of Low Light Laser Therapy really mean?

Dr. Alan Feller’s rebuttal of laser hair therapy used by Advanced Hair Studio

Dr. Bauman advocates that laser therapy MIGHT have some benefit.

TOFI stands for “Thin Outside, Fat Inside”, which in fact means that if you are a TOFI, then you are thin on the outside and fat on the inside at the same time. You may wonder how’s that possible?

“Being thin doesn’t automatically mean you’re not fat.” – That’s the answer of Dr. Jimmy Bell, who is a professor of molecular imaging at Imperial College in London.

Dr. Bell and his team have been researching on that for more than 10 years now. They’ve scanned nearly 800 people with MRI machines and have created the so called “fat maps” that show where our bodies store fat.

Thin people probably don’t realize that they also have fat issues. This is due to the fact that their bodies do store internal fat around invisible to the naked eye organs, such as the liver or the heart. We’ve used to say that only the people whose external fat is stored underneath the skin (which is the largest organ in human body and is visible with naked eye) are really fat. I wish it was as simple as that.

Now it turns out that the risk of many thin people (with normal BMI) to develop serious disease such as insulin resistance, Type 2 Diabetes or heart disease is even higher than the risk of this happening to people with higher (even obesity) BMI results.

Out of all people scanned by Dr. Bell and his team it turned out that nearly 45% the women with normal BMI results (between 20 and 25) actually had excessive levels of internal fat stored around vital organs. This percentage among men turned out to be even as high as 60%.

These results are quite disturbing. It seems that BMI (one of the most reliable measurements for overweight and obesity) is no longer accurate as long as internal fat is concerned. Most diet experts still consider BMI 100% accurate, which means that they believe that being of normal weight is equal to good health, but… the truth is that BMI can’t give you the exact indication of where fat really is.

I am a TOFI. And how about you? Are you a TOFI too? If your answer is “Yes”, then it pops up the question: How we fight this internal fat?

Well, there is good news for all of us and it’s that internal fat can be easily burned off through exercise or by improving your diet. As usual regular physical exercise and caloric restriction (dieting) have always been the best way to get rid of visceral fat.

When it comes to being fit and healthy, all experts are unanimous: Dieting is now always the key to healthier and slimmer you, exercising is also a very important part of your happier and healthier lifestyle.