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!

The trick to youthful looks starts with a look back at old photographs of a younger you. Maybe it’s a playground or beach shot where you have a great carefree moment. You have shiny, bouncy hair, perfectly arched eyebrows, a natural healthy glow, clear eyes, a happy smile (and hopefully most of your teeth), warm round cheeks and dark, full lashes. There is not a wrinkle in sight! Fortunately, most of us still feel almost as good as we did then, so why can’t we look that young again? Maybe a little magic will do the trick!

Rosy cheeks can be had with makeup and a healthy glow comes from eating properly and getting enough sleep and just enough sun for proper vitamin D levels. Exercise can help with weight balance (not too skinny and not too heavy) and muscle tone so we can show off bare arms, legs and tummy. Getting enough hydration also helps keep skin elastic and more frequent use of moisturizers are now needed everywhere on the body paying special attention to our hands. Hands and necks can really define our age! Clear eyes are helped by proper sleep, natural tear-type eye drops and wearing sunglasses when driving as well as walking and playing outdoors. Eyelashes can be made to look darker and fuller with makeup or even lash extensions (no mascara needed!).

Eyebrows start to lighten up, thin out and even turn white! A regular visit to a brow boutique or salon can keep us perfectly manicured there, and there are professional eyebrow dyes or tints to darken and highlight what still remains of our eye “frame”. I was using eyelash mascara on my brows, then voila, out comes a new product made especially for eyebrows (looks the same to me!). However, I now use that to darken and fill in thinning brows. Lips also seem to thin, and although there are a lot of lipstick brands that tout “luscious lips”, lips need to be plumped up first for the full effect! Lip plumpers sold over the counter tend to wear off in no time, but a professional series of injections works wonders (on your pocketbook as well!).

As we age, the outer ring of our iris begins to fade making eyes look old. Colorful contacts can enliven our eyes. Our teeth tend to yellow with age as well as wear down. Regular visits to the dentist will keep our teeth healthy, but veneers or tooth-colored fillings to replace worn edges and all of the whitening products out there can rejuvenate our smiles. The skin around our lips also begins to pucker and we begin to develop “jowls” due to loss of collagen and muscle tone and connectivity under the skin in these areas. Keeping weight down helps for the jowl area and never having smoked, sucked heavily on drinking straws or any other similar motion (playing the French horn?) would mean that the lines above your lips might be spared from deep creases for a bit longer in life, but eventually we could all use some of the new rejuvenating injectables meant to decrease lines and plump tissue to keep those lines from reforming.

But the biggest magic trick is to replace lost hair! There is a laser hair brush on the market that is absolutely the best thinning hair treatment. The Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser contains 35 pulsing cool temperature lasers that increase the blood flow to the base of the hair follicle allowing each to produce a thicker, shinier hair shaft. Using it every other day for just 15 to 20 minutes is a breeze, and with rechargeable batteries it is only a one-time cost. Any type or ethnicity of hair, dyed, natural, straightened, etc. is a candidate for laser hair restoration. Because it is a natural hair loss treatment it is also safe for a person taking any type of prescription medication or using any other type of hair loss treatment. Shampoos and conditioners help with body and shine, but for true volume and thick, youthful hair only the laser hair brush treatment “does the trick”!

Popping pills has become mainstream. Actually it has been for quite some time…just ask Alice! Now however, the things that pills are trying to cure are even crazier…but do they work, and at what cost? Gaining weight? There’s a pill for that! Balance out your moods and hormones! There’s a pill for that! Too much belly fat but not enough in the butt or breast area? Change locations of fat retention? There’s a capsule for that too. Swallow a capsule (with a camera, I assume) instead of going through a colonoscopy? Yes! Add oomph with iron pills, cure cellulite (where can I get THAT one?), make me love myself, love exercise, love love…all comes in pill form.

Serious items that are on the horizon are pills that ease chronic pain without the addiction side effects. Safer painkillers would nix the euphoria and use different mechanisms than the current oxycodone-types. These drugs would not carry the added benefit of a “high” but would still reduce or eliminate pain…much better for society as a whole. At NYU they are in the process of seeing if the drug metformin which is often used in diabetes type II treatment may also delay Alzheimer’s, cancers and heart diseases…all ailments that come with old age. A cure, no, but a delay in old age symptoms would be nothing to sneeze at!

Speaking of old age arriving…I hear that there IS a hair pill on the market that can get rid of grays. These pills contain an enzyme that eats up the hydrogen peroxide that hair follicles naturally produce and that builds up over time. As with most supplements, they aren’t approved by the FDA. Major cosmetic companies are working on a different pill to stop graying another way…but I’m guessing that they might be dragging their feet as they can make more on us touching up those grays instead!!!. Now, what about a pill for hair growth? That is not in the pipeline that I can find…but there are several ways to beat losing your hair.

Just as lasers can zap away fat, hair, scar tissue, bacteria, wrinkles and age spots, they can also be calibrated to heal. The red wavelength or cool, red lasers actually stimulate the blood flow wherever they are directed. This helps in alleviating pain and promoting healing and is used extensively in hospitals, clinics and now even veterinary hospitals and offices for these reasons. The pulsing lasers in the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser stimulate the blood flow around the base of each hair follicle and this action delivers more nutrients, faster and takes away waste products so that each hair follicle is working at maximum capacity to produce a thick shiny hair shaft. Follicles that are already dead cannot just start producing hair, but any viable follicle will increase its output.

This thinning hair treatment is also a natural hair loss treatment as no chemicals, dyes or medications are used…only healing light therapy. The laser hair brush use does not interfere with any creams, dyes, or whatever else you may already use on your hair. It is also great for any type, ethnicity or color hair as well. Used only 15-20 minutes every other day it is not even that time consuming…and sure beats the alternative. It is also safe to use with ANY other medication you may be taking…so although it is NOT a pill…it is safer…and just as easy. Go ask Alice!

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!

There’s a new crop of products, services and treatments that is helping us to stay younger looking longer…and they’re getting less expensive and easier to obtain. Scientific fact or hype? As I go through the most popular, I’ll let you decide!

Want salt on that margarita?

Go ahead and take it! Actually, don’t eat it…as too much salt has been blamed for obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, kankles. Instead, breathe it in…deeply! Salt lounges are popping up all over the U.S. Rejuvenating salt therapy can be thanked for increased immune systems and athletic prowess, a cure for asthma and allergies and an added complexion glow. This white stuff is safe to inhale! Dry-salt therapy grinds warm salt into breathable particles which can be inhaled through masks, under domes or in enclosed rooms. This aerosol salt absorbs the impurities from your body and helps break up mucus which envelops the toxins and can be expelled. With clean lungs comes all of the benefits above. If your body is exposed, skin is exfoliated and can better act as our body’s natural antibacterial defense system. Also touted as a benefit for those with eczema and acne, a natural glow is a great side benefit. So, grandma’s Epsom salt baths were right on target!

Bumpy thighs?

Cellulite is a nasty 9-letter word! A newly cleared treatment by the FDA is Cellfina. A needle-sized blade is inserted about 8mm below the skin’s surface to cut the bands of fiber that cause cellulite’s dimpling effect. Anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour later with minimal pain and an easy recovery and anywhere from $3,00-$6000 dollars lighter, you can keep those nasty puckers away for years! Forget all of the creams, massages and salon devices that promise to get rid of the pesky dimples…this product actually works!

Tired of the two to five step process of applying your makeup? Now you can purchase custom colored drops to put into your moisturizer (which should already contain SPF 30) for a one-step application! Simply put the desired amount of product into your palm and add drops of custom color according to what type of coverage you want! Anything can be obtained from sheer to full coverage. Just mix and apply as usual. If you already love your moisturizing product, leave the makeup powder, foundation, etc. behind! There are 24 shades to choose from in the FX line.

A pacemaker for anti-aging? Well, a pacemaker-like device can actually interrupt the nerve signal that signals hunger, so staying slim and more youthful looking is easier than ever! When we are at our target weight, exercise becomes easier and therefore our entire body benefits. As long as our food intake is of the healthy variety, this new weight-loss gadget will leave us in better shape mentally and physically. There are several new devices on the market in this category…but they do require surgery to implant them. Move over, lap-band!

There are concierge doctors, single-fee dental insurance, free unlimited carwashes with purchase, and now unlimited hair salon visits for one monthly fee. “Memberships” to these salons let you have unlimited blowouts, haircuts, color and washes for under $150. I’m sure there is a one year contract or something like a gym membership (and we all know how THAT goes!) but easier is still the word here! Botox is extra, but for killing the sweat glands in your scalp that can ruin a good blowout in one step or spin class it’s priceless!

Speaking of scalps, how much hair does yours hold? Now lasers don’t just remove hair…they can be a treatment for thinning hair! As a natural hair loss treatment, a laser hair brush sends the cool length or red laser wave to the base of your hair follicles. This increased circulation stimulates and replenishes the hair follicles to let them produce the thickest and shiniest hair that they can. Hair grows longer, faster and thicker. No need for surgery, nasty creams or prescription drugs. It is successful with any ethnicity and works as well in males and females without downsides or counter indications to any type of shampoo, conditioner or prescription meds that one may be taking for other issues. Of course, dead follicles won’t produce hair, but for thinning spots it makes an exceptional female hair loss treatment. The best in laser hair restoration devices uses a curved surface brush-like device that uses rechargeable batteries and requires treatment for 15-20 minutes every other day. It is portable, discreet and inexpensive at around $600 for a one-time fee. Now…get yourself one of those salon “memberships” and look younger and more beautiful while you read up on all of the other new remedies out there!

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!

As we age, we are constantly noticing changes in our bodies. None, however is as devastating as losing our hair! There are presently many options for a thinning hair treatment, from pills to lotions to lasers. But, which ones of these actually work as a female hair loss treatment? Let’s first explore the arena of natural hair loss treatments.

Researching both in magazines and on the internet there are a plethora of ideas. Many tout a proper diet first. Great idea! We all would be better served if we got our recommended amount of protein, iron, zinc and Omega 3’s. Yes, this is an important part of a healthy body therefore creating the best environment for optimal hair growth. However, not all health nuts have great heads of hair…so there must be more!

Reduce stress! True, this is very important for our overall health including our scalp. Get plenty of exercise, breathe properly, meditate, get rid of all negative thoughts sounds wonderful, but men and women have real lives and jobs and commutes to deal with, so this will never be consistent unless we move to the countryside. Ah, you folks living in the countryside can attest, however, that living in remote areas has its own reasons for stress. Wild animals, chopping wood, doing laundry by hand on the rocks in a stream…OK, crazy as it sounds, man was built to stress about something!

How about herbal remedies for thinning hair? When I look up the herbs and concoctions for pastes or pills there are things that I (and even the folks in whole Foods) have never heard of. Good luck finding some of the things recommended, and when I did, they were expensive and the concoctions were messy. As far as taking anything orally? Hmmm, I want to know what is going into this body!

Oils were also touted as both stripping the scalp of pore blocking matter and as stimulating the scalp into hair production. Coconut, olive, almond, rosemary, lavender and geranium were the top natural oils for natural hair loss treatment. These options were very messy, expensive and required a lot of mixing and “down time” as you wait for them to sink in, then wash and restyle your hair. Way too much trouble!

Massage was another wonderful option. No, not whole body massage, but do it yourself (or find a very patient partner) head massage. Every day, the more the better, scalp massage does increase blood flow…but mostly to the scalp surface only. Other treatments like low level laser therapy (LLLT) delivered by a laser hair brush actually get the blood flowing below the outer layer of your scalp and move the blood’s nutrients along faster to the follicles down IN the scalp. That is where help for thinning hair occurs.

The craziest idea or piece of equipment is a needle roller. Yes, you read it correctly…a small roller on a handle that has 540 needles embedded in it to roll over your scalp. Sounds to me like aerating your lawn! (Maybe that is where they got this nutty notion.) Oh, yes, and it is also great for reducing stretch marks and cellulite…OUCH! Speaking of pain, how about a cayenne pepper, coriander juice or even onion juice treatment? Pain and stink are what come to mind. Fenugreek and yogurt would make a lovely way to spend the day as well. At least with the food choices, we may not need to go hungry either. Feed your head, Alice!

All humor aside though, these ideas just do not work as well as the latest natural laser hair therapy treatments. The use of a laser hair brush (like the onetime purchase of the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser) ends up being not only cost effective, actually work and a lot less time consuming than any of the remedies listed above. Plus…you won’t scare others away with the sights or smells of some of these. The time saved can be used toward exercise and meditation classes!!!

Take a pill for this, take a pill for that. Our society has been “drug dependent” for a long time now. It seems that there is truly a pill for everything…even hair loss! With new advances drug companies have come out with Minoxidil and Rogaine to curb or even stop hair loss. As with other medicines, however, we need to know what effect any medication is having on the rest of our bodies. The best news for thinning hair treatment is that a natural hair loss treatment is now available.

The drugs taken recreationally are bad for us, we all know that. Yet, many millions daily either occasionally use drugs or are hard-core addicts. Drug addiction is an illness that can be exacerbated by environment and circumstance, but is a social disease that we all must strive to better understand and work toward ending.

Not all addicts are those out in the streets, your neighbor society chairperson or CEO can also be a victim of drug abuse and addiction. But, when given a choice to take drugs or not (by those of us without the addictive gene) our bodies would obviously do better without.

Medical issues brought on by either our gene pool, environmental pollution or hazardous material contact, accidents, illness or even old age create another dilemma for the medical community. Drugs can save our lives, or they can cut them short or even create other problems that in turn require another drug to fix the problems brought on by the first one! Mental issues are also more commonly spotted now and instantly diagnosed with a pill as the remedy. Overcrowding in schools, high standards set by admissions due to increased competition, all the TV and printed material not to even mention Social Media pressure make it a more hostile environment for our kids, and many kids turn to drugs or their parents have them off to a physician for medicines to combat depression, ADHD and a myriad of other illnesses.

Sometimes we spot the instant effects of medicines on our bodies, especially our hair. Chemotherapy and other cancer treatments sometimes have an almost instant side effect of hair loss. Other times medicines take a time to build up in our systems before we see any harmful or obvious results. For the instant loss many women turn to wigs, scarves, hairpieces and a change of hair cut once their hair starts to grow back.

For those patients who have had a drug that causes instant but reversible hair loss, there is a natural hair loss treatment that can speed the regeneration of the hair grown in the follicles. The latest in treatments is the laser hair brush for hair loss. The website for the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser shows several of many cases of before and after photos addressing this issue.

Often times though, the results of drugs and their interactions are not noticed for a long time. Hair that is duller, drier, thinner and or more brittle is often a result of medications taken. The latest treatment for thinning hair is also a natural hair loss treatment.

It does not add to your medication load. In fact, it is safe to use with any medication and is also safe for any sex, ethnicity and any color or type of hair. It is also safe for color treated, permed, straightened or condition of hair. Use of a laser hair brush will only improve the circulation around the follicles creating a stronger, shinier, thicker hair to be produced and a longer growing phase for each hair follicle.

Sometimes we CAN alleviate the use of drugs and medications, and other times we need to take these same pills to keep us alive! As long as we have a choice, fine…but for those times with no choice in taking medications, we can make sure to check with our pharmacist to stop any effects of drug interactions and make sure that there is not a different strength or type of medication that would work as well with fewer side effects. Our bodies are complicated, but our choice of hair products and how our hair adjusts to these complications should not be. We should be able to keep our tresses healthy and looking great right along with the rest of ourselves.