Sitting at your desk, and reading this article, probably on your computer screen, if you happen to glance six inches to your right or left you're almost certain to find something, actually 'many somethings' Made In China.  Pick up any item lying on your desk, turn it over and see where it was made.

Take a walk down any aisle at Target® or Walmart® and you'll be confronted with an army of products, all Made In China.  Pick up the phone and call American Express™ or other major company and, more often than not, you will be connected to a customer service center in India, or perhaps Peru.  

How Hair Cycles; Why Human Hair Is Unique

Most hair-bearing mammals shed in waves which cycles are often seasonally driven. In rats and mice for example, hair is shed in a cephalocaudal pattern beginning at the tip of the nose and progressing rearward toward the tail.  In humans, each individual hair cycles individually -- this distinction is known as a mosaic pattern.  Scalp hairs typically grow in the anagen portion of the cycle for two to five years then transition to a telogen resting phase where the follicle sheds its hair and does not produce a new hair for 90 days.  

A consumer concerned about alopecia areata type hair loss writes:  Does HairGenesis® work in the setting of alopecia areata (AA) as well as for other forms of hair loss?  Here's my response:

Your e-mail was forwarded to my attention so I hope you do not mind if I reply personally.  I should preface my comments by noting that I am a Ph.D. research scientist, NOT an M.D. clinician.  This means that any thoughts I offer in this regard should not be construed as medical advice.  As long as we both appreciate the limitations of what I've just conveyed, here are my thoughts.

What makes HairGenesis® different from all the rest?  Let's start with the basics.  First, we're in the business of selling a patent pending, USPTO trademark registered, line of hair loss treatment products.  We are the only non-drug hair loss treatment line supported with published peer-reviewed IRB monitored clinical research.  Our latest university-based research study demonstrates a novel mechanism of action and our patent pending application articulates the novelty of our most recently developed dual-mechanism formula. 

The treatment of pattern hair loss has evolved from the use of materials that obviously don't work to those that barely

work to those that have scientific evidence that they actually work very well.  Of late, 21st Century methodology 

allows for the investigation, testing and deployment of new substances as well as known substances used in new ways.

Carnitine is a known substance that is finding new application in the treatment of hair loss.  Here's why.

By typing "Hair Genesis" in the Google search box, a quick review of the sponsor link ads brings up one that reads 

Click through to the landing page and one views what appears to be an objective third party review of HairGenesis® comparing the product against Nisim and several other brands, particularly Provillus.  

In the past fifteen years, HairGenesis® has gone through four significant formulation improvements.  

Today, Generation IV HairGenesis® represents the state of the art in naturally derived hair loss treatment 

methodology.  One of the most important features associated with the new formula is its dual-mechanism

design and deployment.