Serum based on plant extracts increases hair growth in weeks

A serum designed to reverse hair loss has shown promising results in less than two months. Based on plant extracts and cell-stimulating proteins, the current treatment led to visible improvements in hard density compared to a placebo formula.

Pattern baldness affects up to half of men and 40 percent of women at the age of 50 to some extent. Some treatments, such as Finasteride and Minoxidil – also known as Rogaine – may be effective, but this depends on a number of factors, including genetics and how much hair has been lost.

Researchers are investigating new methods of re -growth of hair, including the use of stem cells, manipulation of fibroblasts – a type of cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue – and drugs that appear to be waking sleeping hair follicles.

Looking for another approach, researchers at Schweitzer Biotech Company in Taiwan have developed a serum that includes caffeine-a common ingredient in hair loss-prevention shampoo-and two proteins that stimulate cell growth: insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and fibroblastværkværkktfaktor-7 (FGF-7) Legislation for Hair Folling. It also has excerpts from Centella AsiaticaA herbaceous tropical plant often used in skin care that seems to promote hair follen.

To put it to the test, a team of international researchers recruited 60 adults aged 18 to 60 who did not necessarily have significant hair loss. They were divided into five groups, the first of which received a placebo serum without active ingredients and the second got a basic formulation of 0.1 percent caffeine and vitamin B5, which has humidity properties. The remaining groups all had this basic formulation, but the third also had IGF-1 and FGF-7, the fourth had too C. Asiatica Extracts, and the fifth all had these.

Participants were all told to use 1 ml of the serum all over their scalp every night for 56 days. Across most of the results that the team measured – such as hard density, rental thickness and reduced hair loss – things improved from group one to five. Hearing density improved most significantly; With almost 25 percent in group five – almost twice as much change in the placebo group.

The researchers wonder if C. Asiatica In particular, extracts can strengthen the roots of the hair or improve the blood flow around its follicles. “This plant has been used for anti-altar and restorative, anti-inflammatory use,” says Christos Tziotzios at King’s College London. “So it’s a bit of a miracle plant, allegedly. A few other things in the study have more evidence base, for example the long-acting IGF-1 and FGF-7; they are known to have an impact on the hair cycle.”

The researchers and tziotzios are both warning that the study is small and larger, longer trials are needed before treatments based on this formulation become available. “That doesn’t mean it’s not a potentially interesting thing to look at, but of course it needs further work,” says Tziotzios. “The better we get in terms of our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that underlie hair loss in general, hair biology, the more likely we are that we get closer and closer to a radical treatment.”