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March 26th, 2012

Blow-drying Your Hair Away and More Hair Myths

There are so many hair myths out there that there seems to be more hair myths than balding heads! Many of these myths put fear into our hearts when we should be taking the right actions instead. Here we debunk a few more myths along the way to a better head of hair.

 

Myth One: If you want to keep your hair, quit using your blow dryer.

 

The good news is that this myth is completely false. The bad news is that certain ways of styling your hair could be the root cause behind your hair loss. Why? Because if you wear your hair in a style that puts stress on the roots, then you can end up killing the follicle and the hair with it.

 

However, if you do use a blow dryer, you are not going to end up with hair loss. You could end up with hair breakage though, from the extremes in temperature. If you are either using a too-hot dryer or using it too much, you can end up with brittle hair that breaks easily. So, to keep your hair in the best shape possible, don’t overdo the blow dryer.

 

Myth Two: If you take steroids, you get big muscles and not much hair.

 

Well, you now have another reason not to use steroids for muscle development. When you take steroids, you can actually promote hair loss! The issues is that anabolic steroids (in particular) can raise your level of DHT. DHT stands for Dihydrotestosterone and this hormone is the culprit behind the vast majority of male pattern hair loss. Because of the interaction between DHT and anabolic steroids, you can significantly speed up hair loss.

 

What you really need is a way to control DHT at the location that counts most – the roots of your hair. This is where quality shampoos and treatment serums are important. They can deliver key herbal ingredients directly to the follicle that work against DHT. Consider products like SureThik Shampoo and Serum combination. You are using a shampoo with active ingredients and then you apply the leave-on treatment for a one-two punch.

 

Myth Three: More sex means more hair.

 

If this were true, some of us would be pretty hairy.

 

Unfortunately, while this would be a prescription that many people would enjoy, it’s not true. It’s also untrue that hormones or bodily chemicals released during sex help to grow hair. Research just doesn’t support this. So, while the primary culprit behind hair loss – our friend DHT – is a male androgenic hormone, more sex isn’t going to get your levels of it down.

 

You have options to get your DHT under control, including natural treatments that have real effectiveness. Start there to get your hair loss under control, rather than depending on myths that won’t really work.

 

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February 27th, 2012

Thinning Hair: An Early Warning Sign?

We all want a lovely, thick head of hair. We want it because it looks good. However, it shouldn’t just be our vanity that has us looking at why we are losing our hair: it’s possible that hair loss is an early warning sign of certain health conditions and nutritional deficiencies.

 

It can be as simple as a Vitamin D deficiency – research does show that a large percentage of people in North America are deficient in Vitamin D, and hair loss is one of the primary symptoms. The further north you live, the more likely that you don’t have enough of this vital nutrient! Recent studies indicate that intake of up to 4,000 IU’s of Vitamin D is safe, particularly given the push to use sunscreen to avoid skin cancer.

 

Low iron can also result in hair loss. Iron is arguably the single most important mineral in the human body, because of its critical function in our blood. Because of its importance in the body, it can affect a wide range of functions, including hair growth. As high as 70 % of cases of hair loss in women can be due to pervasive and long-standing iron deficiency – as such, low iron is the most common cause of hair loss in pre-menopausal women.

 

Beyond warning about nutritional deficiencies, hair loss can also be an early warning for a large number of health conditions, including diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease, depression, multiple sclerosis, gum disease and even tuberculosis. Given how serious these conditions can be, get them ruled out! It is extremely important for anyone who is dealing with thinning hair to have an examination by a health professional, to ensure your health is good. Then, any hair loss that continues can be the focus of your attention.

 

Once other conditions are out of the picture, focus on the health of your scalp and your hair follicles. The best way to do this is to nourish them directly. Topical products, using hair healthy ingredients, are a great way to keep your hair looking its best and growing well. SureThik Shampoo and Serum are a combination that will deliver vitamins and herbal treatments directly to the scalp to help you to keep the hair you have and keep it growing.

 

Keep in mind that subtle hormonal issues are a significant trigger to hair loss issues. The most common hormone to torment both men and women is Dihydrotestosterone (DHT). In both genders, other adrogenic hormones can be converted into DHT. DHT then goes to work, blocking receptors in the hair follicles, which starves them of nutrition. Again, it’s critical to get the right nutrition to the hair. Look for products – both topical and oral – that contain saw palmetto. This herbal supplement helps to convert DHT into other hormonal forms, which helps to protect hair growth. The very good news is that saw palmetto is considered safe for long-term use. Taking this orally, in addition to a quality topical product, is a one-two punch to hair loss!

 

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February 15th, 2012

The Primary Causes Of Female Hair Loss

Female hair loss is not the same as male hair loss – even if some of the causes are similar. Women differ in hormonal levels and other metabolic processes, which tend to result in differing types of hair loss.

 

Women – like men – can have hair loss due to hormonal imbalance. The key hormone that directly affects hair follicles is DHT. DHT stands for Dihydrotestosterone. DHT is a male sex hormone that is present in both men and women. In fact, DHT is a normally occurring metabolite of testosterone. However, it is a more potent male, and it has much greater affinity for male hormone receptors than testosterone has.

 

The problem arises when DHT interferes with normal functions, including hair growth.

 

DHT compromises the nourishment of follicles, by blocking the receptor sites on the follicle and starving it. In the end, the hair follicles shrink and the hair gets finer and finer until there is no hair at all. This is called miniaturization, and is the process behind 95% of hair loss. The women who lose the most hair will be the ones who are predisposed to producing the most DHT.

 

You can fight DHT directly at the hair follicle. Topical products such as SureThik Shampoo and Serum will deliver natural ingredients to control DHT and nourish hair.

 

Other hormones that affect hair loss and growth are thyroid hormones. Women are typically more prone to thyroid issues than men. Whether the thyroid is overactive or underactive, hair loss can result. Thyroid disease can be easily diagnosed with blood tests.

 

Most women know that their head of hair is particularly luxurious during pregnancy. Unfortunately, nature catches up later, as hair that has stayed in the growing phase then drops out by entering the resting phase. This usually happens a number of months after the baby’s birth. Similarly, changes in hormonal status associated with menopause also tend to affect hair and increase hair loss.

 

It isn’t just hormones that affect hair. Anemia can result in excessive hair loss. Women often have greater issues with maintaining enough iron in their bodies, due to the strains of menstruation, pregnancy and lactation. When iron stores are too low, hair loss will result. This kind of hair loss is best diagnosed by a simple blood test to ensure that iron levels are optimal.

 

Women often become anemic when dieting. Dieting itself – especially severe dieting, which also results in potential deficiencies of essential nutrition – can lead to hair loss. Hair requires essential fatty acids, adequate protein, and minerals like zinc. Without key nutrients, dieting women may find that they are sacrificing their hair for a slimmer body. This is another place where nourishing topical products can help to restore the health of hair follicles.

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February 7th, 2012

Skin Conditions That Cause Hair Loss

 

It’s not always your hair that’s the problem. Sometimes, it’s actually your skin that is causing you to lose your hair! Hair loss caused by a skin condition is often reversible, so understanding what is causing your hair thinning is an important first step to treating it.

 

Seborrheic dermatitis (also known as seborrheic eczema) is an inflammatory skin condition, which results in white to yellowish scales that flake away. Typically, you’ll see these scales in oily skin areas, such as the scalp, eyebrows, creases of the nose, behind the ears and inside the outer ear.

 

If you’ve had a child with cradle cap, you’ve seen seborrheic dermatitis. However, adults can get it too.

 

Seborrheic dermatitis tends to run in families – just like cradle cap does. The condition can be worsened by such things as stress and fatigue. However, it can be reversed by proper cleaning and care for the scalp. A good cleansing routine, including items such as SureThik Shampoo and Serum to clean and nourish the scalp properly, will improve your scalp’s condition. While seborrheic dermatitis is not caused by poor hygiene, cleansing to keep follicles clear and healthy definitely helps. Daily shampooing may clear it up more quickly, by working to loosen the scales and wash them away.

 

Psoriasis is another skin condition that can cause hair loss. Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition where skin cells are building up quicker than they are being shed. As a result, it causes the creation of red or pink colored lesions on the surface of the skin.

 

The lesions cause not only hair loss, but also scarring and follicle damage. The good news is that your hair may come back if the condition is quickly and properly controlled. However, only an examination by a knowledgeable physician will confirm if the follicles are healthy enough for hair to regrow.

 

Scarring is a primary feature of scleroderma, another autoimmune disease, which is caused by a build up of collagen in the skin and other connective tissue. So much collagen can build up due to the scleroderma, that the skin actually feels hard!

 

Any kind of trauma to your skin – whether burns, infections or disease – can cause scars. Once scar tissue replaces normal tissue, hair cannot grow through it! This is called scar alopecia and it’s permanent. So, if you have been diagnosed with scleroderma (or any other serious skin disease or trauma) it’s important to have it treated early by a qualified professional. If you can avoid the scarring to your scalp, you can avoid the hair loss.

 

Once there is scarring, the only option to improve your hair loss will be hair restoration.  While hair transplant technology has come a long way since the dreaded “hair plugs”, the ideal situation is that you don’t lose your hair in the first place. So take the steps now to make sure the skin of your scalp is as healthy as it can be.

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January 24th, 2012

Can my diet prevent hair loss?

Your diet does make a difference. Obviously, your body can’t provide the right nutrients for hair growth if you don’t provide your body with the right food or supplements. It’s pretty much that simple.

 

However, you also want to balance your diet properly. Too much of the wrong things can be just as bad as too little of the right things.

 

Start out with salmon as a great food for overall nutrition. Salmon is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids, which are important for a healthy scalp.  Too little omega-3’s will cause the scalp to be dry. Salmon is also an important source of protein, which is needed to grow the actual hair. The hair shaft is made up of keratin, a form of protein, which the body can synthesize from dietary protein.

 

Just because you need protein, doesn’t mean that you have a license to go out and eat a steak every day. Your diet should include protein sources from eggs and legumes too. Eggs are a source of both vitamin B-12 and biotin. Biotin in particular supports healthy hair growth. Legumes are not only a source of protein, but also low in fat as well. Low fat sources of protein will do you the most good, even if you aren’t trying to lose weight. Too much fat can contribute to too much testosterone, and too much testosterone can make male pattern baldness worse.

 

Don’t forget your veggies while you are filling up your plate with protein! Dark green vegetables are a source of vitamins A and C. Without vitamins A and C, your body can’t produce sebum. Sebum is the only substance that your scalp secretes, which conditions the hair. Of course, you also get lots of other benefits from green veggies, not the least of which is iron. Iron deficiency is a common cause of hair loss.

 

Avoiding iron deficiency is a snap, as long as you include a few iron-rich foods in your diet! How about raisins if you are craving something sweet? Cherry juice is another good source of iron, that isn’t hard on the taste buds.

 

Why not make your own trail mix with raisins and nuts? Nuts are full of great nutrition. Brazil nuts will give you a good dose of selenium, which works like an antioxidant in your body (even though it’s a mineral). Walnuts are a particularly good addition to your trail mix, because they contain omega-3 fatty acids, and zinc. Zinc is another mineral that can lead to hair loss, if you have a deficiency.

 

Whole grains can provide you with a regular dose of zinc. However, if you are feeling more adventurous, consider oysters! Oysters are not only known as an aphrodisiac, but are a great source of zinc.

 

The most important thing in your diet is to eat a wide variety of foods, making sure that you are providing the right nutrition for your hair, as well as your life.

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January 18th, 2012

Can medications cause hair loss?

 

Drugs can often have unwanted side effects, and hair loss may just be one of them. While it’s true that some medications can help you to grow hair, it’s also true that there are medications that can cause excess hair loss!

 

The issue is that the drug may be affecting either the growth phase of the hair, or the resting phase of the hair. Your hair follicle grows during the anagen phase, which usually lasts three to four years. Your hair follicle rests during the telogen phase, which usually lasts three to four months. At the end of the telogen phase, the existing hair falls out, and a new hair begins to grow.

 

Medications can cause two kinds of hair loss called telogen effluvium and anagen effluvium. Of the two, telogen effluvium is most common. If hair loss is related to a specific drug, it will generally start within two to four months of starting the new prescription. With telogen effluvium, the drug is influencing hair follicles to go into dormancy early – therefore, falling out early. With this type of hair loss, people will lose 100 to 150 hairs daily. This amounts to about 30 percent more hair loss than normally.

 

A large number of drugs can cause hair loss. Common drugs that will affect hair include acne medications, antibiotics and antifungals, birth control pills, cholesterol drugs, high blood pressure drugs, steroids and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory pain medications.

 

If a prescription drug is causing anagen effluvium, then the drug is preventing the matrix cells in the follicle from dividing normally. This stops the hairs from growing properly and they fall out. If your medication is causing this kind of hair loss, it will become obvious within a few days or weeks. Chemotherapy is the most common cause of this kind of hair loss, and can be quite severe.

 

In most cases, if you stop the offending medication, then the hair loss stops. However, it can take as much as three months for the hair loss to end. If you are on multiple medications, you may need to stop one at a time to determine which drug is the problem. Your doctor will know alternative medications that you can take to manage the same health condition – but without the negative side effect of hair loss.

 

When you stop taking a drug, but the hair does not come back, you may need additional help. In this case, it’s time to consider hair products that nourish the scalp, and even other prescriptions that help to grow hair. If you are looking for natural products to promote hair growth, good options include products like SureThik Shampoo and Serum. When the scalp is nourished well, you have the best chance to grow healthy hair.

 

In some cases, you will need to be evaluated for medical treatment of drug-induced hair loss. A doctor who specializes in hair loss will be best able to evaluate you for the best possible treatment, whether that is hair growth medications, hair transplantation, or other options.

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October 24th, 2011

Significant hair loss has a natural solution

The normal rate of daily hair loss is about 50 to 100 hairs a day, according to the Mayo Clinic. Given that the average person has about 100,000 hairs on their head, that 50 to 100 hairs will never be noticed.

But what if you are losing more than that number of hairs? What if the hair that grows in is finer and thinner and poorly rooted? You could be on track for hair loss and thinning, unless you take some proactive steps.

One of the best steps that you can take is to clean your scalp well, using a natural shampoo designed to help alleviate and prevent hair loss. SureThik Shampoo is an ideal shampoo for those with the most common forms of hair loss. This shampoo does everything you want from a good quality shampoo, in addition to providing the most well-known and effective natural hair regrowth ingredients as part of its formula.

However, a complete solution requires more than proper cleansing – it also requires a therapeutic treatment that will stay on the scalp (rather than be rinsed away) to help address the key reasons for hair loss and thinning. In this case, you can turn to SureThik Hair Serum. This combination provides a one-two punch to hair loss, with nutrition for the scalp and herbal ingredients that are based on documented research.

The SureThik Serum uses a proprietary blend of nutrients and oils that not only nourish, but also help to protect the hair follicle from two key culprits in hair loss: Dihydrotestosterone, or DHT; and, loss of circulation to the scalp.

Research shows that one of the most common issues with hair loss is DHT. DHT binds to hair follicles, blocking off blood supply, oxygen and nutrients. DHT basically starved the follicle, which then cannot continue to grow hair. The SureThik Serum helps to reduce the amount of DHT present around the hair follicle with propagain, a combination of natural DHT blockers, which protects your ability to grow hair. Our natural serum replaces such pharmaceutical products as Propecia, delivering results at a fraction of the cost and without resorting to a drug.

Another drug known to help with hair loss is Rogaine. Rogaine grows hair by increasing blood flow to the scalp. SureThik Serum also addresses this area, but with a unique blend of Capsicum and Rosemary extracts. These extracts are able to increase circulation, without the nasty side effects of Rogaine. Good circulation will help to support hair follicles, resulting in more hair.

The SureThik Serum can be applied to the scalp 1-2 times a day. Apply directly to the scalp. Use light massage to enhance absorption.

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June 30th, 2011

Join us For PBA Beauty Week!

Are you in the Beauty industry?

Be sure to join us for PBA Beauty Week in Las Vegas July 30th-August 2nd, 2011!

If you’ve never seen SureThik in action, this is your opportunity to experience first-hand the best all natural hair fiber product on the market.

As a beauty professional, we don’t have to tell you that how a person feels about the way they look is deeply connected to a person’s confidence, and that self esteem affects every area of life.  But what do you do with a client who suffers from the embarrassing issue of thinning hair, but either isn’t a good candidate for transplant surgery or just doesn’t have the finances to invest?

SureThik offers a non-surgical, completely natural cosmetic solution. Visit our booth to see for yourself why customers like the one below are so excited about the difference SureThik is making in their confidence and ultimately, their lives!

“I am so impressed with this product, I cant believe that my hair is thick again like it was 5 years ago!” ~S. Malik

Visit us and place your wholesale order at booth #D14028 and receive FREE SHIPPING!Hair by 2008 NAHA Finalist Dimitrios Tsioumas

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April 4th, 2011

Hair Loss – Tips for Success By: Adam Sharp

Many of our potential Surethik.com customers wonder if the product they’ve chosen will work for them. Everyone wants a great return on their invesment! We stand by every sale we make for that very reason-in fact, we thought the following article was a great guide to help you get the most out of the Surethik products you’ve chosen:

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Hair Loss – Tips for Success

By: Adam Sharp

Billions of dollars will be spent on hair loss solutions this year. Much of this money will go to waste. Ineffective products and misleading advertising are only partially to blame. Many consumers are not using these hair loss products in an effective way. Fortunately there are a few simple ways that consumers can increase their chance of success. Following these guidelines will ensure that your money does not go to waste:

Start a Journal
People usually try several different hair loss products before they find something that works for them. Many use two or more products simultaneously. Keeping track of all this information can be frustrating and difficult. The best way to figure out what is working is to keep a journal detailing your progress. You should record all relevant information about the treatment process: when you started, the dosage, cost, and any side effects you experience. This documentation will tell you which products are effective, which ones are not, and allow you to make changes as you see fit.

Take Pictures
Noticing small changes in your hairline over time is extremely difficult. Taking pictures on a regular basis is the most effective ways to track your progress. Always photograph your head from the same angle, in similar lighting conditions. Use a digital camera for best results, most will automatically record the date and time for you. When combined with a treatment journal, these photos provide an invaluable tool that will allow you to judge the effectiveness of products you use.

Do Your Homework
The Internet is flooded with products claiming to cure and treat hair loss. Finding out which ones are legitimate can be a difficult task. When researching products online, beware of those that sound too good to be true. If the company has before and after pictures, examine them closely. If the images were shot from different angles, or in different lighting, be suspicious. These techniques are common camera tricks used to fool the eye, and the consumer. When a company claims their product has a “98% success rate”, look for documentation of their clinical study. If the clinical information they provide is vague, or even missing altogether, be wary.

If you follow these steps during your treatment, your chances of success are excellent. One last tip – any successful regimen requires dedication. Whatever the treatment is, carefully follow the instructions from your doctor or the product manufacturer.

Author Bio
Adam Sharp writes more about Hair Loss at his website. Visit hair-loss.org to read more about hair loss products and treatments.

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