Mirror, Mirror . . .
Here is another brief excerpt from the new Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox book, a discussion about the changes you may see in the mirror in the days and weeks of your program.
Mirror, Mirror . . .
As you proceed through your Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox, you are likely to see some changes when you look in the mirror . . . changes you’ll find empowering, encouraging, even thrilling.
You will start to see changes in your face. Yes, if you lose, say, 5 to 7 pounds over the 10 days of your Detox, your face is going to look thinner. But you will likely notice that your face changed more than those few pounds would permit. Y...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 6, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cellulite dental gluten grains hair Inflammation teeth Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Why do women pay more for beauty products? Episode 117
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South Korean beauty innovation
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Japan has long been the source of beauty trends for European and American countries but more and more that is shifting to South Korea. Recent trends out of Korea include BB creams, cushion compacts, sheet masks & ingredients like rice bran & pomegranate.
Recently, the latest products that hit Europe and North America were started in South Korea. So it would be interesting to see what else might be coming our way. Here are 5 new beauty products as reported ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - January 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
Does WEN conditioner make your hair fall out? Episode 115
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Update from the Secret Society of Cosmetic Chemists
Perry was in New York for a meeting of the Secret Society of Cosmetic Chemists where he was installed as the organization’s Vice President Elect. He also attended an interesting talk about new anti-aging ingredients. The idea was to talk about how happy products make you rather than focusing on how they work or what they do. Another lecturer discussed that just because something is safe to eat doesn’t mean it’s safe for your skin. For ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - January 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly does not end at weight loss
Misty joins the ranks of people whose physical and facial appearance has undergone a dramatic transformation by living the Wheat Belly lifestyle.
“I have been eating the Wheat Belly way for 2 months. I have lost 18 lbs. I went off blood pressure meds. I was having really bad stomach pains and they have disappeared. I was losing a lot of hair and had a very dry scalp and both have improved a lot. I can tell a big difference in my stomach and legs. I don’t have many ‘before’ pics and the pics I am posting are different angles.The first pic is from May, 2015.”
You can count calories or points a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 30, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories acid reflux bloating gluten grains hair loss IBS Inflammation rash Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Wrapping Stem Cells for Hair Regeneration
A number of research groups in different areas of regenerative medicine are working on ways to wrap individual stem cells in supporting materials that enable the cells to both survive and behave as desired for long enough to produce results following transplantation. In this case, the focus is on hair regeneration:
The dermal papilla cell (DPC) is a type of highly specialized mesenchymal cells located in hair follicles (HF). Due to the primary role in the epithelial-mesenchymal interaction that enables hair-follicle morphogenesis and hair cycling, DPC has become an attractive cell source for hair regeneration to treat alo...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 28, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Are beauty programs for cancer patients dangerous? Episode 107
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Quick follow up on curly hair
Last time we talked about how to moisturize curly hair. That generated a ton of discussion on our website. I wanted to give you one quick update which is an article I stumbled across about using combing creams to moisturize curly hair. These are essentially a detangled mixed with a styling cream and if they’re properly formulated they’re really good at controlling frizz and defining curls. The funny thing is the article which was published in Glamor of September 2015, talks about combing creams as if they’re a bran...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - November 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
Critically appraised topics
Via social media I find out about this paper from the British Journal of Dermatology (you will need a subscription to see the full paper). It is a critically appraised topic about the use of diphenylcyclopropenone to treat alopecia areata, and involves a literature search carried out by Jacqueline Limpens, a medical librarian at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, which is how I found out about it.What is a "critically appraised topic"? Also known as a "CAT", a critically appraised topic is "is a short summary of the best available evidence, created to answer a specific clinical question", quoting fr...
Source: Browsing - November 6, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: critical appraisal EBP Source Type: blogs
Enzyme Inhibitors Might Reverse Male Pattern Baldness
So far the drugs have only been tested on a different cause of baldness. NEW YORK, NY (October 23, 2015) --Inhibiting a family of enzymes inside hair follicles that are suspended in a resting state restores hair growth, a new study from researchers at Columbia University Medical Center has found. The research was published today in the online edition of Science Advances. In experiments with mouse and human hair follicles, Angela M. Christiano, PhD, and colleagues found that drugs that inhibit the Janus kinase (JAK) family of enzymes promote rapid and robust hair growth when directly applied to the skin. These drugs, tofaci...
Source: FuturePundit - October 24, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs
Reversing Essure: Say Hello To Essure Reversal Baby Emily!
Mom with second Essure reversal baby, Emily Ann.
Reversing Essure is possible if you are hoping for another baby. Removing Essure without a hysterectomy is possible if you are having symptoms after Essure.
Most health care providers are not aware Essure inserts can be safely removed without a hysterectomy.
Dr. Monteith is a reversal specialist who helps women restore natural fertility through Essure reversal surgery and treats women with symptoms from Essure with Essure removal surgery.
Essure inserts can be removed without a hysterectomy and Essure can be reversed and allow the chance for natural conception and pregnancy...
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - October 15, 2015 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: essure reversal Fall River how is essure reversed Massachusetts pregnancy reversing essure symptoms tubal reversal facebook Source Type: blogs
All about hair loss (alopecia) - Deutsche Welle expert interview
Dr. Andreas Finner (Trichomed Praxis Berlin) talks about what everyone can do to keep a full head of hair and about the best methods for treating hair loss:Today's Hair-Loss Treatments: DrugsMinoxidil shampooPatients can buy an OTC shampoo with an ingredient called minoxidil. Minoxidil (Rogaine) fights androgenic alopecia in both men and women. It's still not entirely clear how minoxidil works. Used properly -- twice a day, massaged deep into the scalp -- it slows new hair loss. Two-thirds of men do get acceptable hair growth. "It is not something a bald person would use, but someone starting to go bald would use it. The g...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - August 28, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Dermatology Deutsche Welle Source Type: blogs
Hair Loss and MicroRNA 22
A fair number of research groups are involved in investigations of the fine details of age-related hair loss. As in most research related to aging, scientists are for the most part much more interested in mapping the chain of change and consequence in cellular biochemistry than in seeking out first causes. The outcome here is that later attempts to build therapies based on new knowledge tend to involve prevention or alteration of downstream consequences of cellular and molecular damage rather than trying to repair or prevent that damage. All other things being equal, this is never going to be the best path forward. For one...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 17, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Sunscreen shaming and other news Episode 85
Have you heard about sunscreen shaming?
I didn’t either but this is a real thing. There’s an entire discussion thread on the popular site Reddit dedicated to the phenomena.
Apparently, not everyone is accepting of the idea that you should wear sunscreen to prevent getting tan. In this article there were a number of instances in which people were mocked because they were using sunscreen. They say it was even worse if they were using sunscreen on a cloudy day. Have you ever been mocked for wearing sunscreen?
People must not realize that tan skin is damaged skin or that you can still get sun damage even when it’s cloudy...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - June 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
Can plant stem cells grow more hair? Episode 84
This study indicates that butyl avocadoate does reduce sebum production (although there was no control used in the study so it’s really hard to tell if the reduction in sebum just resulted from washing the scalp.) Regardless, all the study showed was less oil on the surface of the skin it did NOT measure any factors related to hair growth. So the only evidence for this ingredient doesn’t even support the primary claim.
The Beauty Brains bottom line
Tyler asked what you can expect to see from this technology. The answer is…we can’t find any evidence that this product will do anything to your hair beyond reducing hai...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy SchuellerDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
Meet Dakota Fisher-Vance…she didn’t let cancer derail her
Fasten your seatbelts. You’re about to meet Dakota Fisher-Vance. Cancer could have derailed the impact she’d have on the world, but it didn’t. She was preparing for Med School, interested in education and looking forward, perhaps, to a day she’d work with children with autism.
Then, came cancer. Specifically, Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. I won’t tell you what she found on the web, you can read it here and understand her frustration about what she found. Then, came a desmoid tumor, another very rare condition. Statistically, she’s one in four million.
Except in my book, where she’s one in a billion. In the ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Cancer Innovation Source Type: blogs
The Low-Hanging Fruit of Cell Therapy Development
It is always going to be easier to develop treatments for non-vital organs, and in some cases work on cell therapies for those organs can be simpler and less costly for other, unrelated reasons. Thus progress is faster in these areas, and we should expect to see widespread availability of first generation, comparatively simple therapies well in advance of more ambitious goals, such as the regeneration of complex internal organs:
The regenerative medicine company RepliCel Life Sciences is developing potential cures for chronic tendinosis, damaged or aging skin, and pattern baldness by reseeding affected areas with specific...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 17, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
