About Hair Growth + What Causes Hair Loss?
In order for your body to grow a strand of hair, it requires:
1. Hair Follicle: Think of this like a plant’s seed, you can’t grow a plant without a seed + you can’t grow a hair without a hair follicle.
2. Healthy Scalp: A healthy scalp is essential to ensure healthy hair growth. An unhealthy scalp can restrict hair growth leading to hair loss, hair shedding, hair breakage and thinning.
3. Blood Supply (AMOUNT): A hair follicle is like all other cells within the body, it relies upon receiving a healthy AMOUNT of blood supply in order for it to survive.
4. Blood Supply (QUALITY): A hair follicle relies on receiving NUTRIENTS from your blood in order for it to produce keratin (the substance your hair is made of).
Any factor that causes any of the above elements negatively, can cause hair loss, hair breakage, hair shedding and hair thinning.
Types of Hair Loss
What is the difference between hair loss, hair shedding, hair breakage and hair thinning?
• Hair Loss: Describes the situation where the hair follicle is no longer alive. If a hair follicle dies, you will not grow strand of hair in that location ever again. Some people think that hair loss is a sudden process, however the majority of people who suffer hair loss, experience hair shedding and hair thinning for many years prior to experiencing actual hair loss.
• Hair Shedding: There are 3 stages with a hair follicles life cycle that keeps repeating and repeating. Anagen Phase (growth phase) Catagen Phase (resting phase) & Telogen Phase (shedding phase), then it starts with Anagen Phase again. All hair will go through this cycle many many times. It is natural for people to shed 50-100 hairs per day. Hair Shedding also has a piece of skin attached to one end of the hair strand. The hair breaking away does NOT mean it will not grow back, all that has happened is the hair has disconnected from its hair follicle and fallen away. If the hair follicle is still alive a hair strand can be produced.
• Hair Breakage: Describes hair that has broken half way down the hair strand. That means, a section of the hair is still attached to the hair follicle and the scalp, however the piece that has fallen away does NOT have a piece of skin at the end of it. Diet, poor shampoo and conditioning methods, hair styling products and scalp health can contribute significantly to hair breakage.
• Hair Thinning: Describes hair that is still growing, however over time the hair is becoming weaker, thinner, finer and appears to have less volume. Hair that is thinner covers less surface area, and people with thinning hair may believe they have experienced hair loss, when this is not true, their hair has become noticeably thinner, meaning the hair strand covers less of the scalp.
What Causes Hair Loss?
There are a lot of factors that can cause hair loss. Any event, illness, stress, injury, hormonal or genetic factor can impact the blood supply that your hair follicles receives. And any negative change to either the QUALITY or QUANTITY of blood supply that reaches your hair follicle will cause either: Hair Loss, Excessive Hair Shedding and Hair Thinning.
However, if your hair loss and thinning is isolated to the frontal, midscalp and crown regions of the scalp , and is not impacting the sides and back of the scalp nor any other part of your body, then the cause of your hair loss is almost certain to be caused by your Genetics. Genetic or Hereditary Hair Loss is the only type of hair loss to impact the frontal, midscalp and crown regions of the scalp in a gradual pattern of thinning. Other factors such as hormones, nutritional deficiency, illness, physical or psychological stress can accelerate how quickly you experience genetic hair loss, however they are not the causes of it.
How can Great Directions help you?
We have experience helping men & women with the following forms of hair loss;
• Genetic or Hereditary Hair Loss
• Alopecia Areata
• Diet & Nutritional Deficiency
• Hormone Imbalance
• Thyroid Disorder
• Liver Health
• Kidney Health
• Cardiovascular Health
• Poor Scalp Health
• Physical or Psychological Stress
• Auto Immune Conditions
• Medications that are being consumed
• Disease and Infection
At Great Directions + PRP for Hair Loss Clinics, we can help you! We have consulted with more than 30,000 men and women who are experiencing hair loss and/or hair thinning.
I have been doing PRP for over 2 years now. The first year I didn't follow the recommendations as thoroughly as I did in the second year. Scott knows his stuff, I just wished I followed his recommendations sooner.
I have been a Great Directions patient for 3 years now, and I have recently seen the negative reviews written about Scott online. I welcome anyone to ask to meet me in person so I can share with them some facts about why I trust him completely.
When I heard that other companies were talking poorly about Scott and Great Directions, I had to write in and provide this review. Scott has always gone above and beyond in helping me with my hair loss.
I've been with your company for 2 years, the first year I just did the PRP, the second year I followed all of your recommendations. The results in the second year were excellent. Thank you Scott and team.
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I love how natural and easy it is to follow. My hair feels alot healthier since starting the PRP treatments with Scott and the nurses at Great Directions.
I used to hate washing my hair because of the amount of hair that would fall out. After my initial PRP treatments, I barely see any hair loss and my hair feels a lot healthier too.
I had done three PRP treatments over 1 year at another Sydney clinic, and I have received much better results with Great Directions. Their recommendations make all the difference.
Mohammad
Melbourne Patient
My doctor couldn't believe my blood test results had improved so much after starting the PRP and following the smoothies for breakfast.
I have been with Great Directions for more than 4 years now and my hair feels much better. Scott knows his stuff and his nurses are fantastic.
I have read some of the reviews about Scott online, and I do not agree with them at all. After 5 years of PRP treatments with Great Directions I am really happy.
I wish I had started PRP sooner. After only one month of treatment I am no longer losing my hair when I shampoo it!
I have been a Great Directions patient for nearly 2 years and I wish I had joined them years ago.
I have had 2 hair transplants, and the 2nd was planned by Scott. I wish I had him plan my initial transplant now.
I have seen the bad reviews about Great Directions and I want everyone to hear that I love the place. Scott really does care and the nurses are fantastic.
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I really wanted a transplant, but Scott spent nearly 2 hours for free to convince me why I wasn't ready for one. Every other clinic I went to tried to convince me to do it. But Scott showed me photos of why I needed to prevent further hair loss first.
Mohammad
Sydney PRP Patient
My entire family has androgenetic alopecia and all of them are getting great results from the PRP for Hair Treatments from Great Directions!
I choose Great Directions because 4 of my friends recommended me to do it. Even my hair surgeon in India recommended Great Directions.
Scott Moore is the real deal! Don't believe the negative reviews online. I have been a patient of his for 5 years now. If you follow his recommendations you will get results... simple as that!
This company has helped me alot. My hair is better, my health has improved and my confidence has significantly improved. You just need to follow their recommendations (which are easy to follow).
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I am starting to notice a lot more tiny hairs in area's that I thought I was bald in.
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A Doctor
Melbourne Patient
Thank you Scott for the PRP treatments. My hair feels healthier & stronger.
There has always been the belief that hormones were only responsible for constant loss of hair in most people but of which also was revealed to have genetic susceptibility on the queue. Research has proven that there’s more to it than is thought to be involved. However, the case of genetic hair loss is a persistent problem in most patients as it affects a vast percentage of men and at least 50% of women in general. According to clinical research, it is revealed that this condition arose from a genetic predisposition (dihydrotestosterone) which is said to fight off hair follicles while restricting normal hair growth and causing them to wither. This medical condition can also be triggered by severe environmental or other lifestyle factors.