The word “laser” in laser hair comb can sound dangerous! I thought that lasers removed things (think tattoos, women’s facial hair) not grew things! Don’t lasers actually destroy tissue? I investigated and found out that lasers have been helping re-grow hair for over 30 years in Europe, and at least 20 years here in the U.S. Laser combs have been typically used in clinics and specialized salons in the form of hair-dryer type equipment that allows laser light of the red frequency to penetrate the scalp to reactivate blood flow to the hair follicles. Now however, smaller, lighter, hand-hale devices are made for home use.

Can a Hand-held Laser Hair Comb Really Work?

How can this be? I researched the low level laser therapy (LLLT) that has been used for years to treat chronic pain and inflammation and is now actually used to help heal and re-grow hair after scalp surgery. Low level laser light accelerates the healing and curbs any inflammation, restoring tissues and cells to their normal healthy function. When applied to hair follicles, this return to normal cellular functions and stabilization of the membranes results in hair re-growth. Years of damage from poor diet, too much sun, tobacco, excessive hormone levels and unlucky genetics can be overcome by a laser hair comb.

How Do I Use a Laser Comb?

Typically a quality laser comb is used three times a week for about 30 minutes per day. The laser brush or comb is passed over the scalp, targeting the thinning or balding areas in a pattern that most evenly covers the entire area that you want to treat. The most effective laser comb is one that has the highest number of true lasers and not just the light emitting diodes (LEDs) that some combs use. The new portable ones have no cords, but use rechargeable batteries, this makes it very easy to use in front of the TV or on vacation.

Common Questions about Laser Comb

Is a laser comb really worth the $300-$500 that is being charged today? Compared to clinic or salon visits for laser hair re-growth treatments it is very cost effective. There are no appointments to make, no travel time or gasoline expenditures and it can be used in the complete privacy of your own home. Any shampoos or conditioners that are recommended by laser comb manufacturers would be needed to maintain your hair and scalp cleanliness anyway. How quickly will hair re-grow and will the hairs remain or will they gall out again? Results can be seen in 2-3 months. Hair may grow in finer at first, but will thicken as the follicles regain total health. Continued use is mandatory however, as without the light therapy certain types of conditions may return. Will the hair look the same or will it be different? The hair that will re-grow will look exactly like the hair that last grew out of your scalp in that area. The benefit is that hair is not transplanted from another area of your scalp or body which could look out of place. What about any side effects? Make sure you purchase a laser comb that follows FDA guidelines for home use. Thorough testing and significant use has been analyzed by the FDA and many of the manufacturers.

Laser hair combs are now the new hot topic on the internet as well as in medical journals. However, as with all new solutions to age-old problems, time will decide whether or not this device will sin the hearts of men and women everywhere. As out health consciousness and quest for youthful looks increases especially in the baby boomer generation, I believe that this is just another tool in our toolbox for looking our best!

Every other corner now has a Natural Juice Bar opposite a Starbucks Coffee. We go from caffeine high to vegetable high on a daily basis. These wonderful juice bars are really raking in the customers now though with their offerings of a “Slimmer Summer” by detoxing your body from processed foods by drinking a “set” of juices for one day to up to a week! These juices are cold pressed, made on site and very tasty (especially if you like grassy notes). I’ve tried it and recommend it. It is a little pricey, but it sure helps you get on your way to losing weight by cutting cravings!

A pedicure may not seem like a topic for detoxing, but the soak and subsequent pampering go a long way toward detoxing my mind as well as getting rid of winter’s calluses from wearing socks and boots as well as getting rid of extra skin that builds up around the nails and on our heels! There’s nothing that says “summer” better than a fresh coat of paint (er…polish) on our tootsies. Manicures are also a way to detox our minds and cuticles, although I wonder about breathing in all of the fumes that come along with the nail process.

That just means that its time to go to yoga or meditation to get our lungs functioning at maximum capacity to be “out with the bad air, in with the good” after any salon treatments. Practice in deep breathing not only detoxes the lungs, but also the soul! Our minds can get cluttered with all of the possibilities that Spring and Summer bring, like vacations, spring cleaning, kids home, parties and barbeques, etc. Come to think of it, a vacation would be the best type of detox for me! Yoga along with walking, Pilates, tennis, etc. can allow us to concentrate on ourselves rather than work, kids or dinner…so they are all definite brain detox activities.

Our hair needs a detox after winter and summer whether we live in cold climates or hot. Winter brings the dry heat of heaters, split ends of brittleness and breakage from wind or hats. Heat-styling tools are used even more often as we dare not go outside with a wet head in the winter as we might during the summer. Summer, however brings heat, sunlight, chlorine or ocean salts. The best detox for hair is a spritz of heat protecting spray whenever you style (blow dry, flatiron or curl) your hair. There are multivitamin, antioxidant, vitamin B5, vitamin E and biotin containing treatments which nourish every strand by rebuilding damaged lipids to retain moisture and add strength and elasticity. One thing to completely stay away from when detoxing your hair is any alcohol-based products such as hairsprays. They dry out the covering layer of each strand leading to brittleness and breakage. Detox to get your hair back to healthy!

Of course our scalp needs a detox too! Follicles work best when clean and clear of debris. Excess oils and skin cells clog the pores, closing off the opening for the new hair to exit. Proper circulation of blood to the base of the follicles is important too to bring nutrients and clear away toxins. Even with great care, hair can still thin or fall out with age, hormones, prescription drugs taken or heredity. The best natural hair loss treatment or treatment for thinning hair is the latest use for lasers. Nutreve has a Personal Hair Therapy Laser which uses 35 pulsing lasers of the cool, red variety housed in a lightweight laser hair brush. Rechargeable batteries, an ergonomic handle and the option of a hands-free stand make the 15-20 minutes, every other day treatments seem effortless. Improved circulation to the base of the follicles allows each to produce the thickest and shiniest hair possible. Investigate this method of detox and give your hair a spa day!

The best way to help our thinning locks is by using a natural hair loss treatment. It can all start with the foods you eat! A balanced diet with no major swings in dieting or overeating in one category stresses our systems the least. This in turn places less stress on even the hair follicles on our heads. Our hair is produced in tiny bulb-like housings in our scalp which are fed and nourished by the constant blood flow in that area. Since our blood is a great reflection of the nutrients or lack of in our entire systems, it figures that our skin, muscles, brain cells and even our hair follicles are directly affected by its condition

A head of dull, dry, brittle hair not only shows our scalp condition worse than a mane of shiny, thick hair, but it is more prone to breakage and split ends. Since hair is made of proteins, eating this nutrient will help it be included in each strand produced. 46 grams a day is ideal. Zinc, iron and omega-3s are also important for hair health.

For a healthy, shiny pate, make sure to include the following foods in that balanced diet. Soybeans are an excellent source of protein. They can stand in quite nicely if we are a vegan or vegetarian to make sure to make up for protein lost by not eating meat. Zinc can best be found in oysters. Your nails and your sex life can benefit too! Iron is found naturally in beef products and your red blood cells need it to transport oxygen to all areas of your body including your follicles. Follicles continually fed with a fresh supply of oxygen, proteins and zinc can produce a thicker, shinier hair strand. Omega-3s are also needed as scalp protectors. They keep away dry flakey skin which clogs the pores of the follicle and keep down inflammation which can hinder a follicle’s production. Salmon and avocados are rich in Omega-3s. A little vitamin D from sunshine and some vitamin C from bright, colorful vegetables also keep the strands coming out strong and keep them from breaking and splitting.

If you cannot fill in all of these categories by eating properly or due to religious or health limitations, a quality supplement which also includes biotin is helpful for stimulating hair growth. Natural sources include meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts and beans. Now if only we could eat “properly” and yet not gain weight…or if we could keep weight on in our boobs and butts, but lose in our belly area…that would be a miracle. We’ll keep our eyes out for a pill like that!

A truly revolutionary treatment for thinning hair that will NOT make you gain weight is the laser hair brush. Made by Nutreve International and called the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser, the sleek, lightweight contoured design actually holds 35 pulsing cool red wavelength lasers. This natural hair loss treatment stimulates the blood flow around the base of the follicles, so that enriched blood from your healthy diet can now better nourish the follicles and carry away waste products even faster! That translates to faster growing hair that is thicker and shinier in no time. Used just 15-20 minutes every other day, this laser hair therapy for women (or men) can be used in conjunction with ANY diet, medication, hair type, hair color or condition. It can be used along with rogaine or after men’s hair transplant surgery. Of course a healthy diet and lifestyle are the best basis for a healthy body, but this new laser hair brush concept adds the boost that proper diet alone cannot provide for a healthy, shiny, full head of hair.

As we age, it seems like our hair disappears faster each year! Patches thin and we can see our scalp easier all the time. I have thin, fine hair so it lies flat to my head. I feel like my part is widening along with my hips! My friend, however, has frizzy hair, and she claims that even though her hair is thinning all of the frizz keeps the volume larger and her scalp hidden. Who has the better deal?

As it turns out, my flat hair is actually healthier. My cuticle or covering of the hair shaft has its dragon-like scales in perfect order, not lifted up due to brittle, dry hair. Some folks have hair that just overly reacts to the moisture in humid air which swells the hair shaft and raises up those scales. Razor cuts accentuate this issue as the razor lifts up the scales as it cuts creating split ends. Super sharp scissors “cut” down on damage during styling. Less shampooing and more conditioning is also a help.

Sulfate-free shampoos don’t foam to rough up and dry out the coating of our hair strands and natural oils along with quality conditioners or oil hair mask treatments keep the dragon scales under control.

Gently patting your hair dry, combing it out with a wide-toothed comb and using an anti-frizz product on your hair before it dries is a must for frizz-prone hair. Blow drying is a big concern also and products that contain any alcohol products just dry out hair further. Salons are now offering “coating products” that are made of proteins that bond the cuticle into one smooth strand and can work for up to a few months per treatment. My friend’s favorite solution is just to put her hair into a bun. Clever you say? While it may be the latest fashion statement, pulling your hair back into a tight pony tail or bun can actually be pulling your hair out!

So both my friend and I need a treatment for thinning hair that works on all colors, types and conditions of hair. The best female hair loss treatment turns out to be the latest laser technology used in a laser hair brush. Laser hair restoration is the ingenious tool best made by Nutreve International called the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser. Its ergonomically designed laser hair brush houses 35 pulsing, low level, cool lasers that target the base of each hair follicle. Laser light stimulates the follicles to produce thicker, smoother, healthier hair which cures our thinning issue. It is this natural hair loss treatment that is light years ahead of surgeries, medications and messy topical creams that women have been using as their thinning hair treatment for years. It also is light, portable, hand-held and can be used with a hands-free stand for years of relief and beautiful hair. Rechargeable batteries mean that your purchase is a one-time deal, and no additional purchase is required! The laser hair brush also does not interfere with hair shampoos, dyes, medications or any other treatments that you may already be using or wish to try in the future, and it works on hair of any ethnicity, texture, color or condition.

So, after both my friend and I have been using our new Personal Hair Therapy Laser (which, by the way we share to cut down even further on cost) for just over a month, we have both been pleasantly surprised by the growth of new hair in all of the areas we are treating! We only have to use it for about 15-20 minutes every other day (hence the even easier sharing opportunity) and plan to continue use for as long as hair is in style…which as ANY gal knows, is FOREVER!!!

Go back to cave drawings, the first book plates, or even the first photos of the 1800s…women have a “hairstyle” that coincides with the times. Let’s not leave men out as they go from golden curly locks of the Greeks, to long birdsnest locks of the hippies…long wild hair of the cavemen to long pony-tailed hair of the cutting edge designers in France…shaved heads of fighters to the shaved heads of monks. Mohawks on individualists, slicked back mid-parts of the bankers of the forties. Both sexes have hairstyles that match the age, their status, their beliefs or their job. Everyone is an individual however…and even our attempt to fit into a style is altered by our hair’s thickness, plentitude, curl, color and texture.

Turbans contain long coils of luscious locks, and a ballerina’s bun has a tight knot of smoothed hair. But even hair as different as this contains a same measure of information. It can tell scientists our DNA, what drugs we are taking, what foods we eat and what toxins we have been exposed to. Our life’s story is actually in our hair. Our life’s history is also wrapped up in hair and styling as families still gather to cut and style hair all over the world, and salons are important gathering places where our hairdressers know more about us than most of our friends. Barber shops are places to not only get a shave and a haircut, but also to glean information on anything from politics to sports to neighborhood gossip male-style.

Hair signifies the condition of our health as well. Embattled cancer victims lose their hair to chemotherapy while heart disease and aging signal changes in our hair in either sex. Hair loss can mean you are truly becoming your father or mother, or it can signal a rapid change brought on by internal or external disease. No matter what it means, changes in hair due to age, pregnancy, the weather or the way we style or treat our hair is noticeable to everyone. We can only stay as healthy as possible and style according to our age. NOT…there are certainly ways to set back the clock or recoup damage due to lifestyle and Mother Nature. Let’s check out a couple of these remedies.

We are born with either oily or dry scalp and of course this can change as we age. In general, our sebaceous glands produce oil to help lubricate the area where hair exits our follicles to allow it to slip out without breaking off. These glands produce a varying amount of oil. Frequent washing and the use of shampoos with sudsing agents, blow –drying, dry air, age and some medicines can exacerbate dryness, where oily treatments or excessive brushing can make hair seem oilier. We need to adjust our treatments, products and habits to all of these conditions.

Dandruff is actually the flaking of dry scalp skin. It can be caused by dryness, not shampooing often enough, sensitivities to shampoos or medications or chronic conditions such as eczema or psoriasis. Medicating shampoos tackle or ease such symptoms as well as killing the yeast that can get out of control in our follicles…also causing scalp irritation and dandruff.

Graying hair is just a change in pigmentation of the hair producing cells in the follicles. As we age this pigmentation is lost and gray hair takes over. Gray hair can appear in our teens, thirties, or much later in life. Most of this process is determined by genetics. Some scientists however report that smoking or extreme stress can exacerbate the process. Hair dyes come in all types and colors for all types and chemistry of hair. Most salons do a great job in matching the type of dyes with your hair type and soften the effect with treatments that counteract the harm of the dye process.

What can we do to keep the hair we have? Get the latest in a natural hair loss treatment by using the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser. It is a laser hair brush that has 35 pulsing cool wave lasers which target the follicles to increase blood flow, production and quality of hair produced. Used 15-20 minutes every other day, it will increase quality and function of any viable hair follicle. Any ethnic group, hair color or consistency of hair is helped by this laser hair restoration device.

Now, no matter what the era, style, story, job or amount of money you have, your hair can look its best!

How many times have we heard that our hair needs volume? “Get Major Volume” read ads for volumizing shampoo, hair sprays, treatments, dry shampoos and conditioners. Polimers and proteins bulk up the strands when heat is applied in blow drying or blowouts. As we age, however, hair thins and then these tricks don’t work anymore. Laser hair therapy using a laser hair brush can optimize each follicle’s output of hair. The cool wave lasers target the base of the follicle to increase blood circulation, promoting growth of stronger, thicker shinier hair.

Once we have our perfect amount of hair, we have such a choice of styles! Back in the 50’s hair was mostly soft and touchable. Moms had soft bobs or curls and kids too. The 60’s on the other hand became all about volume. Teased hair, soup can rollers and lots of hairspray were the norm. After all that stiffness, hairstyles went into a phase of tousled locks with waves that looked like we just walked out of the ocean and the sun dried each strand. Lack of structure propagated the thick and wavy look which blended set waves with a bit of windblown effect.

By the time we got to the 90s we wanted out bob back…but this time it was cut on angles with deep parts and not too much poof. Think geometric. Then hairstyles started to change more rapidly. We went to layered looks both straight then curled. Those curls became more polished and looser…sometimes looking like the strands came right off the rollers. Glamour finally overtook the crazy curls and softened them, giving our hair a smoother finish. Now volume is back in waves, but in an undone look…or slicked back into a glamourous ponytail. Hair now doesn’t come in “one style fits all” but is adapted to our location, venue and the time of day.

All of the above however, is achieved only by having that full set of locks. Many of us now have to find a thinning hair treatment and a natural hair loss treatment at that! Back to the laser hair brush for hair loss or thinning. I have found that the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser is the most complete and easy to use laser hair brush on the market today. Its curved head holds 35 pulsing, quality lasers that are poised to target the base of the follicles. It has rechargeable batteries so that it has only the original price tag of less than $600 as far as operating costs.

The ergonomic handle allows for ease in maneuvering the brush to all needed areas, OR you can use the optional hands-free stand so that you can multitask while using the device. Required use is for only 15-20 minutes every other day, and this laser hair restoration device is light and portable so that it can be taken along on vacations or business trips. The Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser can be used along with any prescription medications, and works well with hair restoration medications, creams or treatments. It works for hair of any ethnicity, color or texture and increases follicle output and duration overall. Nutreve is very up front to say that a dead follicle will not produce hair again. Miracles are not an option.

However, they offer the best alternative to pills, surgeries, wigs or any other hair loss or thinning hair treatment out there. Then, style as usual!

Look on the red carpet and you will find hairstyles from almost every era…modernized! The 20’s brought short, close bobs. The 30’s, waves were in. In the 40’s hair got longer with curls or updos and sexy bangs. 50’s brought soft touchable hair, 80’s were wet and wild and the 90’s we chopped it all off again…so that we could grow it out again starting around 2010. Now with our longer tresses…we slick them all back into sleek ponytails.

In order to have hair to play with in so many fashions, it needs to be plentiful, healthy and shiny. Color doesn’t matter as we can dye it, and if we naturally have straight hair we will end up curling it, and if it is kinky or curly we will end up wanting to straighten it…so with all of the processing involved to get the latest look we want, let’s start with healthy hair…plenty of it!

First of all we need to start with our scalp. A clean, healthy scalp has no oil and built up debris such as dead skin cells clogging the entrance to the hair follicles. Shampoos and conditioners without sulfates (which make all that lather) and that do contain small amounts of vitamin E and coconut oil or other skin softeners that do not cause buildup keep the skin supple. However, the follicles themselves need to keep well fed in order to produce a thick, shiny hair shaft. One treatment for thinning hair and male or female hair loss treatment actually stimulates the blood flow directly around the bulb or base of the follicle. This brings a fresh supply of nutrients to the area that produces each hair. The Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser is the latest laser hair brush and has the maximum number of lasers, a comfortable head and handle and runs on rechargeable batteries so your device is as portable as a regular hair brush! It also has a hands-free stand that lets you test or make calls, read, sew or whatever while you use your laser hair comb for the 15-20 minutes every other day.

Preventing heat damage is another way to ensure healthy hair. Our blow dryers, flatirons and straighteners all break the cuticle or covering of each hair. A great moisturizing shampoo and conditioner can coat the hair strands so that damage is minimized. The best have vitamins A and C and can be applied before we get our blowout! Frizzies can make hair look less shiny, but there are new keratin products that can safely repair damaged cuticle for a few months. This helps to combat breakage from excess combing and brushing as well. Newer blow dryers have ionizing properties and flat irons now come with moisturizing steam like a steam iron does. Sun, salt and chlorine can be harmful too, so wear a hat and rinse hair promptly after a trip to the pool or beach.

There are shine boosters that spray on (use just a little!) and spritzers that visually volumize our hair. These create body and a bouncy, tousled look which makes hair look thicker and allows it to move which always looks more youthful. (Think of grandma with her perfectly coiffed helmet.) Creams that volumize and anything that we add to our hair can damage it or weigh it down if over used, so use sparingly! Hair coloring is another culprit that can damage hair if overdone, although it does make hair look thicker. Just getting your roots touched up to hide gray is a more hair-friendly way to go. Touch up kits, sprays and even mascara type wands of color are smart alternatives.

For those of us that need a female hair loss treatment for thinning or balding that can go along with the natural hair loss treatment offered by laser hair therapy, there is minoxidil (Rogaine). The two products can be used simultaneously without any interference. Laser hair therapy and this female thinning hair treatment drug are safe on any hair type and any ethnicity. Please check with your doctor or dermatologist before taking any medications orally, however. The rest of the fixes I mentioned are available in salons, stores or on the internet and work to help us keep, or help us get an amazing head of hair that will support ANY style!

The latest girly movie to come out tells the age old tale of Cinderella going through a transformation just in time for the Ball…and then slipping back into incognito mode as her Fairy Godmother’s spell fades away. Eventually, she becomes a permanent beauty when she marries the Prince and lives happily ever after in the Castle. How many of us have primped for a night out on the town, to realize the next day that all we have is (hopefully) a phone number and hope that we will meet the right Prince and live in a nice Castle in Newport Beach? Ah…but the next time we meet our Prince (he DOES call!) will we look as good?

Have we tricked him with fake eyelashes, hair extensions, Botox and now the ultimate in “quick fixes” the 24-hour boob job? Yes, in about 20 minutes you too can spend about $2,500 to go from an A to a D for a day or two…WAY past midnight…but certainly not permanent! It’s a LOT of work to look as good as Cinderella did for that night…we even bought the latest Manolo Blahniks! If we’re thrifty we borrow from friends or head out to Forever21 and even do each others hair and makeup…but not everyone has friends in the injection business. For Botox, fillers and plastic surgeries we have to pay a hefty price to keep attracting a Prince!

Thankfully MOST of us truly do rely on our intelligence and social graces to attract a nice young man and we must certainly need to be able to keep up a great conversation, (or cook well or something) but for the stereotypical female on the hunt… it’s all about looks. The best way to be able to meet our Prince again for date #2 is to be able to keep up those youthful looks easily.

Healthy looking usually equals youthful looking, and a white smile, toned body, smooth skin, well-kept nails and clean, activity-appropriate clothes go a long way…but I think the thing that Princes look at first and makes or breaks the way WE feel about ourselves is our HAIR. Clean, shiny, thick hair…long, short or in-between is an out-front testament to our general health that cannot be hidden by makeup, clothes or injectables. Wigs and extensions can cover up balding, thin or damaged hair or change our looks, but for those of us who are simply starting to lose the healthy shine and thickness that we once had, the easiest way to healthy hair is laser hair therapy.

Now I know we have been using lasers for years to remove unwanted hair…but this type or wavelength of laser (low level light therapy-LLLT) or cool light laser actually penetrates down just to the level of the follicles which produce our hair shaft. As long as the follicle is alive, it can benefit from this form of natural hair loss treatment. A laser hair brush needs to be used only about 15-20 minutes every other day on thinning areas to stimulate blood flow to the follicle, bringing nutrients to feed a healthy hair shaft. These thicker, shinier hairs are less prone to breakage, damage from shampoos, hair sprays and dyes. They actually use LESS product as we need less to look good!

This female hair loss treatment is good for our Prince too! In fact…this is one secret you may NOT want to keep from him! Males typically start to bald in patches while we women tend to thin out all over our head in general. Unfortunately this process starts for both sexes around 25 or so. So…what is good for the gander is good for the goose, and once you’re safely in that Newport Beach Castle, let your Prince in on your dirty little secret! He’ll actually think you’re smart (which we already knew)! The best laser hair brush for hair loss for a Princess or Prince? Priceless! Actually only about $600 (and you can share).

The Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser is just the thing for a lifetime of happily ever afters!

I Googled “thinning hair treatment” and came up with SO many potions, vitamins, so called natural hair loss treatments that looked a lot like snake oil to me, shampoos, scalp conditioners and even fake hair particles to blend in with your hair and scalp. I think I would rather buy a wig when it gets that bad! In the meantime though my hair IS thinning and I am looking for SOME kind of female hair loss treatment. My hairdresser has been noticing my thinning spots too, and she suggested that I research some of the new laser hair therapy products out there. She said that a few customers of hers had tried them and she could notice the difference within about 2 months! I was ON IT!

First of all “laser hair brush” and “laser hair comb” seem to be interchangeable descriptions. None of them I found looked anything like a comb, but some looked like a brush. Most of this style had handles and “bristles” to either separate the hair or aim the lasers better at your scalp. My research found, however…that laser light goes through hair shafts and so there is no need to part it, and those “bristles” were stiff and painful when you ran the brush over your head. Now if you have to do that every other day for up to 30 minutes…

OUCH! Some had LED lights mixed in with their actual lasers and some even had mirrors (tricky!) to just make it look like there were more lasers at all. One item (a personal laser hair therapy device) had a smooth, curved surface, 35 actual diode lasers, they used the latest pulsing wave technology and had a slightly curved handle angle. Even the words “laser hair therapy” sounded better. The most amazing part of this particular website is that it offered a hands-free stand that fits that curved handle and allows you to multitask while getting your treatments! More comfortable and easier…what about the price???

I found that prices for hand-held devices varied only slightly once you got past the virtually useless ones. The range was from about $500 to $850 for anywhere from 12 lasers up to the best at 35. Of course the more lasers you have working for you, the larger the treatment area is and the time of treatment can be cut dramatically. I found that most brands have their own websites that explain pretty much the same general facts about hair growth, stages, patterns of baldness, etc.

I certainly learned a lot about growth phases, expected “drop out rates” of hair per day and saw lots of photos, diagrams and read lots of FAQs. My conclusion??? The best hand-held laser on the market is the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser. It’s the clear winner with the most diodes, an ergonomic handle, a head-friendly smooth, curved surface, and the latest pulsed wave technology. It also comes with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, the option of a hands-free stand and a VERY decent price of $599! OK, I’ve done the research on hand-helds for you. Next I’ll review these caps, domes and in-house salon hood versions.

I’ve been noticing lately that there are a lot more celebrities making hair changes. The most recent is a certain unwieldy basketball star who just switched teams AND his hairline! Media is trying to decide…did he have a hair transplant, start taking a pill, start using a topical medication or start using a laser hair brush for hair loss? We may never know exactly, but I’m betting on a combo of Rogaine and laser hair therapy. Let me tell you why.

Hair transplants

They have been around for a long while now. At first, they were considered the best treatment for thinning hair. Hairs from other parts of the head are literally transplanted to the front hairline to fill in where balding is occurring. This sometimes gave the appearance of a patch of hair from someone else stuck on the front of one’s head, and there were patchy spots there and in the areas from where the hair was taken.

 

There were also scars that started to form in the donor sites as time went by. Basically now the person’s head was just thinning all over. Now, however, they are using robotics to image, harvest and replant hairs in a much more miniature and precise pattern so that the looks are much improved. Of course, with this comes a heftier price tag and it IS a surgery. The price tag is not a big thing for a basketball star…but it may be for the rest of us!

Next is Propecia (Finasteride), an oral medication that can be taken by men and post-menopausal women. One must take this continually for any effect to show and for the hair thinning to stop. Rogaine (Minoxidil) is a topical application that can be more site specific. In both cases the pores of the scalp must be unclogged and remain clear for the hair to push out of the follicle, so sometimes a Retin-A product is used. This can be irritating to the scalp so that a topical gel may also be needed (and NO sun exposure). These products have become mainstream as a thinning hair treatment.

My latest bet is on the clearance for the drug Bimatoprost known as Latisse to be used on a bigger scale for conquering balding. Currently it is used to keep eyelashes in the growth phase so that they are longer and thicker. It is now being used “off-label” for eyebrows…

Trick is, that growth stops as soon as your use of the product does, and at the cost of $100+ per month just for eyelashes, what would it be for a large thinning area on our head?

Seems like the laser hair brush for hair loss is the most economic and least invasive manor of treatment on the market today. It uses natural light in a cool laser form to stimulate the hair follicles to grow thicker hair faster. It takes about 15-20 minutes every other day to run the laser hair brush over the thinning parts of your scalp.

This device is portable, light, and the smartest company out there offers you a hands-free stand so you can multi-task by doing your e-mails or reading at the same time. The Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser also has pulsing lasers (not just LEDs like so many) for the perfect output of healing light at the correct intervals for optimum hair growth. At a one time cash outlay of around $600, this beats taking pills, having surgery or spending endless amounts of money for other treatments over time. It is also safe to use with Rogaine for a “one-two punch” to tackle those thinning and receding hairlines. LeBron, tell us the truth…you must be using the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser…..aren’t you???