Monthly Archives: February 2014

HairMax Lasercomb, LLLT, Low Level Laser Therapy

HairMax Lasercomb 2014 Update

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Leonard from HairMax LaserComb posted the below comment under my older LLLT post and I thought it deserved its own post.  I still find it hard to believe that lasers can do anything substantial for your hair, but hopefully we will get far more evidence for or against LLLT in the future.  At the moment, there are very few well designed unaffiliated studies concerning LLLT out there. 

I am Leonard Stillman, Director of Professional Services at Lexington International, LLC, manufacturers of the HairMax LaserComb. This post is NOT for commercial purposes, but is to notify your readers of a landmark clinical paper that was published in January 2014, in a peer-review medical journal. The article provides complete information on 4 studies with 225 subjects, which conclusively proved the efficacy and safety of the HairMax LaserComb in treating male and female pattern hair loss.

The article is titled: Efficacy and Safety of a Low-level Laser Device in the Treatment of Male and Female Pattern Hair Loss: A Multicenter, Randomized, Sham Device-controlled, Double-blind Study.

Low level laser therapy (LLLT) may provide an alternative treatment option for patients who do not respond to either finasteride or minoxidil. Moreover, topical minoxidil (solution or foam) needs to be applied once or twice daily. It also has to be in contact with the scalp for at least 4 hours. Such an application protocol may be impractical for many users.

In contrast, the HairMax lasercomb treatment just requires 8–15 minutes of treatment, three times per week. Such a user friendly approach will lead to better patient compliance and, subsequently, improved efficacy.

Luis Garza, PGD2, Prostaglandin D2

Does Prostaglandin D2 Hold the Cure for Male Pattern Baldness?

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Dr. Luis Garza, yet one more well know US-based hair loss researcher, recently published quite a thorough article regarding PGD2 and its link to hair loss.  The material in this article is fairly scientific, and an image on the last page of the article is probably far more confusing than useful for most laypeople.  In any event, worth a read:

Does Prostaglandin D2 hold the cure for male pattern baldness?

Dr. Garza’s team has probably done more research on PGD2 and its link to hair loss than any other group in the world, but their conclusion at the end of the above article is a bit discouraging:

The tools are limited, but the task is simple: just find the needle in the haystack

The section in the article on outstanding questions that still need to be addressed is quite lengthy, and I am therefore not very optimistic about this particular avenue of research leading to any hair loss cure within the next few years.  Nevertheless, worth following Dr. Garza’s updates and summary of his students’/interns’ recent projects at the bottom of the page I linked to his name at the start of this post.