Happy News for Stress Trigger Alopecia Suffers?
9:07 AM
I ran into an article that looks promising for Alopecia suffers. I wanted to share it with you guys.
Below is a brief snippet
A team of researchers from UCLA and the Veterans Administration was experimenting with mice to learn more about how stress affects gastrointestinal function. Think: mice colons.
As the altered, stressed out mice aged, they lost their hair.
Sound familiar?
The researchers injected the bald mice with a chemical compound called astressin-B, which blocks the action of the stress hormone.
Then they put them back in their cages.
They expected to monitor how astressin-B affected the mice guts, but when they returned to the mice three months later, they couldn't tell the treated mice from their hairy brethren.
All of them were covered with fur.
"We thought they were mixed up," said Million Mulugeta, an adjunct professor of medicine in the division of digestive diseases at UCLA, by telephone.
The researchers checked the ID tags and discovered they were, in fact, the mice that had been bald just three months earlier.
Read More of the Article Here >>
Also they has been an update of the Astressin-B finding here
2 comments
Very VERY interesting. However, it may not reach the Market within my lifetime (rules, regulations, funding, red tape etc); it also seemed to be better for addressing androgenous Alopecia (forgive my spelling) - aka hereditary balding not so much Alopecia areata.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing it though, perhaps if I can get my stress levels down naturally, some sort of regrowth could be triggered. What do you think?
I thought it was an interesting article as well. I know they are not coming out with a cure/remedy in my life time, but maybe my daughters or even her children’s? My Alopecia runs in my family, so my daughter having it is a huge possibility. As for the balding, I thought it was misleading of the article to include that and that is why I didn't even bother including that in my post title. The testing just show how stress can cause hair loss and how it was reverse with the Astressin-B. From what I read, this find will only work on stress trigger Alopecia (Telogen Effluvium). Don't know if they going to more research on it for other type of Alopecia or even straight up baldness. As for you, you can try to reduce your stress naturally and see if that works. As for me, the stress is what triggers mines and then I get the full Alopecia.
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