Can a Laser Comb Stop Hair Loss?
May 21, 2010 by HairToday
Filed under Can a Laser Comb Stop Hair Loss?, Laser Hair Combs
In this advanced technological age, many men just assume that when they start to lose their hair, there will be solutions available to them. But while new medical treatments have gone a long way toward helping some men slow hair loss or even regain lost hair, these solutions are by no means perfect. Prescription drugs, surgical treatments, and herbal hair-loss remedies can work wonders for some, but for others they may do nothing at all. Laser combs are the only hair-loss treatment that seems to defy this trend.
How hair loss treatments work
The vast disparity in the effectiveness in hair-loss treatments for different men comes from the simple fact that there are many types of hair loss. Plus, every man is different, and we all react to these types of hair loss in unique ways. A hair-loss condition may cause one man to go almost completely bald, while it may have no effect at all on someone else. It all has to do with genetics and the chemical make-up within the body. Lifestyle factors play a small role, but they’re not as important as basic heredity and other conditions that set in as we age.
Without getting into the technical biological details, one of the most common underlying causes of baldness is a hormonal change that happens to men (and some women) as they age. Certain types of hormones increase while others decrease, and this causes the follicles in the scalp to begin functioning differently. Most hair loss treatments, including prescription drugs, are designed to reverse this process. However, the reason this is so difficult for men is that the hormonal processes are complicated, and it’s more-or-less a crapshoot when attempting to treat these changes with a single drug.
How laser combs are better
Laser combs don’t have this problem. They don’t try to change the body’s natural hormonal development, and they don’t try to make changes to the fundamental chemistry of the body. Instead, they simply work to bring new life to the place where hair is born—namely, in the follicles. The comb does this by using a novel new technology based on principles that have only just been discovered.
While some aspects of the technology are difficult to explain, it makes sense to describe it in terms of energy. All living things need energy to survive, and the cells that feed the hair follicles are no exception. Hair loss conditions cause these cells to stop receiving energy, which directly affects the production of hair. Eventually, the follicles are so cut off that they become completely inactive. Laser combs essentially zap life back into the follicles using a process very similar to the photosynthetic process that plants use to grow.
Some people see this technology and automatically don’t trust it. A little bit of wariness is understandable. After all, this technology is too new to have been firmly established in the medical field, and many doctors are still tied to their old-fashioned prescription treatments. However, the laser comb is proven to be safe and effective, so it can’t hurt to give it a try.
