Natural Baldness Treatment Is A Growing Success

Cultures since the beginning of time tried their own doubtful remedies for baldness, from powdered horn of unicorn to petroleum to X-rays. In truth, no “miracle” cure has ever been discovered, even in today’s age of sophisticated medical technology.

October 2005 --

The Roman emperor Julius Caesar wore a crown of leaves, but not because it was traditional headwear for a king. Caesar donned the wreath to hide his baldness.

For men and women, hair loss has always been a source of social and psychological anxiety.

As the hair goes, a person’s sense of self-esteem and identity tend to go with it. That’s understandable, since throughout history a full head of hair has been a symbol of virility, strength, and beauty. And healthy hair is as sexy today as ever.

Cultures since the beginning of time tried their own doubtful remedies for baldness, from powdered horn of unicorn to petroleum to X-rays. In truth, no “miracle” cure has ever been discovered, even in today’s age of sophisticated medical technology.

However, within the past 20 years, a non-drug cosmetic treatment applied directly to the scalp in the form of a shampoo and treatment has been steadily showing that it can reverse certain types of baldness and stimulate hair regrowth, according to Dr. Morton Walker, author of the book “How to Stop Baldness and Regrow Hair.”

Walker makes no grandiose claims that the treatment, Thymuskin®, will create sensational hair growth overnight. But as part of a regimen that includes understanding the causes of hair loss and the use of nutritional supplements, he is convinced the product can indeed help reactivate hair follicles and stimulate hair growth.

“Thymuskin® is not some magical tonic,” Walker writes. “Rather, it’s a stimulative natural substance possessed by every individual as a child. But it becomes much diminished or nearly lost altogether as one grows into adulthood. The natural substance is thymosin, a hormone secreted by one’s thymus gland.”

A chief player in the research that brought Thymuskin® to the market was a team of German scientists. One concept that emerged from the research is that baldness falls into a wide classification of disorders known as autoimmune diseases. With these disorders, the body’s own antibodies cause the inflammation and destruction of certain tissues.

Researchers have found evidence that thymosin might increase the number of T-lymphocytes (cells that fight off infectious agents) in the bloodstream. They also believe that thymosin may neutralize autoimmune reactions that cause hair follicles become defunct.

It is noted in clinical studies that Thymuskin is 67% effective for male pattern baldness, 95% effective for female pattern baldness and 85% effective for men and women with alopecia areata.

Walker writes of numerous ways in which Thymuskin® can be effective: to prevent hair loss, diminish hair thinning in women during menopause, prevent hair loss during chemotherapy and quickly restore it afterward, stimulate new hair growth, and replace weak hair strands with strong hair.

Walker notes that the treatment has proven especially useful to women in overcoming female pattern baldness.