Are you losing your hair? Then apply some sugar to your scalp. According to the results of a study conducted so far only on mice and published in the journal Frontiers of Pharmacology, It is the application of a sugar called 2-deoxy-D-ribose (2dDR), a constituent playing a fundamental role in various biological processes in both animals and humans, which is at the origin of the regrowth of fur in rodents. A discovery that could well change the lives of furless mice... but especially those of the millions of people (one in four men) suffering from Baldness.
A probable hormonal dysfunction
As a reminder, there are many causes of baldness: stress, pollution, genetics, etc. Because in men, the most common cause is so-called androgenetic alopecia linked to a probable hormonal dysfunction, testosterone transforming with age into dihydrosterone, which is harmful to the hair bulb.
Here, A team of scientists from the Universities of Sheffield (United Kingdom) and Comsats (Pakistan) has just communicated some astonishing initial results, supported by photos, snapshots (see below in the article) attesting to the effectiveness of an original, inexpensive and ultra-simple alternative, which has nothing to envy of one of the two treatments available to date, minoxidil. Only the latter was tested here in comparison to sugar.
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A very effective product
In fact, these researchers have been studying the complex, still poorly understood mechanisms of hair loss for eight years.. During their work, they noticed that hairs around wounds on their healing laboratory rodents appeared to grow more quickly than those that had not been treated. They then carried out an experiment on different groups of mice responding to a model of androgenic alopecia.
They divided the animals into four separate groups and treated them all for 20 days. The first group received dihydrotestosterone (DHT), the second received minoxidil, the third received 2dDR gel, and the fourth received a combination of 2dDR gel and minoxidil.
This is the analysis of the skin of rodents at 21E day which allowed to establish that groups 2 and 3 had in fact completely similar results and the researchers to put forward the hypothesis in a press release from the British university, that this sugar stimulates hair growth while promoting the formation of new blood vessels.
T-3 mice received 2dDR and T-4 mice received minoxidil. Credit: Muhammad Awais Anjum and all/Frontiers in Pharmacology
A treatment that is ultimately very simple
“ Our research suggests that the answer to treating hair loss may be as simple as using a natural deoxyribose sugar to stimulate blood flow to hair follicles and promote hair growth.", comments one of the scientists involved in this research, Sheila MacNeil, a specialist in tissue engineering. However, it remains to decipher with more finesse the subtle mechanisms at play in hair loss before transposing them to humans. It will also be a question of understanding when this sugary application would be the most optimal.
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