Posts Tagged ‘hair loss’
November 17th, 2023 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
The original name for this serum, 20 years ago, was “let’s make collagen.” It was soon shortened to “collagen serum” for convenience, but this serum never contained collagen, an insoluble protein that would settle at the bottom of the bottle and do nothing for your skin. From the get-go, the serum’s purpose was to push your skin to make its own collagen. You can read all about skin collagen in my book, but in my blog post on collagen, you will find more than enough to understand why collagen has to be made inside your skin. Skin Actives Scientific Collagen serum, our #1 bestseller, started as a list of actives…
July 16th, 2020 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
What’s special about eyebrows? They grow slowly. Not so special: they can die. Teenagers eager for some sort of control on their bodies often go for eyebrows, not knowing (or caring) that they can lose them, actually losing all control! On top of innocent-looking tweezers, now there is also lasers, offered by medical looking facilities that will make you sign documents with really small text where you promise not to sue them if …(here a long list of complications). Fashions come and go, but if you keep plucking your eyebrows you will not get them back. Just like the scalp can stop making hairs, so your skin can stop making…
June 10th, 2020 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
I will admit to being vain. I always had great hair, even when I thought it wasn’t great hair because wavy hair was not in fashion and women went to a lot of trouble to get straight hair (I didn’t). In my family hair loss for men and women is common, and I felt lucky that I had avoided that trend and my genes were the “lucky hair” ones. A couple of years ago, after surgery, I lost a lot of hair and I panicked, and for the first time I had to use our hair serum with KGF. I again felt lucky when the serum reversed the hair loss…
April 18th, 2020 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
Your roots may be showing but you can’t get to the hair dresser? Now it’s the time to fix that area that is looking a bit forlorn. A couple of weeks is all you need to get hair regrowth and strengthening. There are so many reasons why we can lose hair at one time or another. It may be just a small area or a more generalized problem but it is usually reversible. Illness, stress or menopause are the most common causes. Chemotherapy will usually result in hair loss. What to do? Use this time when you have to stay at home to apply hair serum with keratinocyte growth factor…
March 6th, 2020 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
After reproductive age is over, we are no longer useful in terms of preserving the human species. Except that, of course, as mothers, grandmothers, aunts, etc. we are probably vital to the survival of the human species. We are also the greatest reservoir of wisdom. Right? With menopause, our bodies will shut off functions associated with reproduction because they are no longer necessary. Other functions will be affected as well. That’s annoying, to say the least. Menopause and hormones Women who have decided not to go for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause may expect slow changes in their bodies, including, for example, loss of bone density. Many women are…
February 27th, 2020 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
Every woman knows that if she lives long enough, menopause will happen. We’ve seen it happen in our grandmothers, mothers, friends and eventually it will happen to us. Ovaries will naturally decrease their production of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone, and the decline will affect the whole body. We know what to expect: not fun effects, but tolerable with some adjustments and some help from the MD. This is normal and to be expected unless you decide to go for hormone replacement therapy, in which you take extra estrogen and progesterone, oral and/or in patches. Many women will have to face a different kind of menopause: induced menopause. This…
February 2nd, 2020 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
The answer is very complicated, so I hope you will you will bear with me. But first, why is the “how” important? Because if we know how estrogen supports the skin, then maybe we can help alleviate the damage we can see in the mirror when estrogen goes down. Estrogen does a lot for our bodies, including the skin and scalp. Estrogen deficiency (like in menopause, natural, or surgical or chemical) leads to ageing and delayed skin repair. Many women go through early menopause, or have to contend with the effects of removal of the ovaries, or deal with estrogen suppressants (to control the growth of a tumor that responds…
December 25th, 2019 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
After bariatric surgery you will lose some and win some, and some of it will be great and others not that much. Here are some examples of what you will/may lose, depending on how you take care of yourself after the surgery. There is only that much magic the surgeon can do for you, the rest if up to you. You will lose: Weight Diabetes (yay!) this will help your skin because there will be less protein glycosylation, and that is good for the proteins (skin included) and for you. Muscle mass (you will need to exercise a lot, and eat protein, ask your doctor) Capacity to absorb vitamins (you…
December 25th, 2019 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
Do men need skin care at all? YES. We “accept” men’s aged skin not because it looks or works better (than that of a woman) but because we (society) judge men by other standards than how smooth their skin is (money and power come to mind). If men do need skin care, do they need skin care especially designed for them? NO. Why do men need skin care? Because skin care is not just a matter of beauty but also health. You can’t wait until things get bad to go to a dermatologist for a lesion that may be skin cancer. You need to prevent damage and reverse skin aging…
December 19th, 2019 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
The scalp, usually hidden behind one of our precious possessions, our hair, is exposed to the same stressors than the rest of our skin, like UV radiation, reactive oxygen species (ROS*), heat, physical stress and more. On top of the usual suspects, add the long list of chemicals, usually unwanted, that are present in the hair “care” products we use. Hair coloring, perms, straighteners, plus hair dryers, chemical and physical stress endured by those wearing “extensions”, and who knows what else. It is not surprising that most people, starting at a relatively young age, have hair problems which are actually scalp problems, because hair is dead protein and all the…
November 11th, 2019 by Dr. Hannah Sivak
No. Hair is dead protein, there are no live cells that can produce (or use) energy. This does not mean that you can’t do something for your hair. 1) Wash. Why? Because we like to smell nice and look nice! Not washing your hair will not make it stay longer or grow faster, and it will look horrible. Try, however, to avoid fragrances and strong detergents, because they will irritate your scalp and affect the quality of the hair the scalp is making. 2) Condition. Yes, hair is made of protein (not live cells) but it will look and feel nicer if you neutralize all those electric charges with a…