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 Dr. Lee is the founder and owner of Regrowth LLC, a company based in Los Angeles and dedicated to the treatment of hair loss. He has been developing innovative products and treating hair loss sufferers for the past 16 years. Dr. Lee is the creator of the Xandrox line of hair loss treatments.
Important Note: Due a busy schedule, Dr. Lee cannot answer any new questions at this time; however, he will be providing high quality answers to questions he receives from his own practice exclusively to Morphollica.com regularly
anonymous
2005-05-15
Decreased blood flow and MPB
Is decreased blood flow a cause of MPB?
Not really, but this myth has been used to sell hair loss products as
bizarre as devices that allow you to hang upside down to potions that 'increase the blood flow to the scalp'. MPB is not caused by poor or decreased
circulation. If poor circulation were a cause for MPB, there would be no explanation for
the hair loss of MPB that occurs in a symmetrical pattern, unrelated to the
blood supply of the various scalp arteries. Furthermore, hair follicles would never be successfully transplanted, if MPB
were primarily due to decreased blood supply, since the follicular transplants
are used to fill in those areas of the scalp affected by MPB. In fact, hair
transplants have a very high success rate, even to the areas of the scalp,
which appear totally bald. All organs and tissues require proper circulation to maintain their health and
all portions of the scalp receive large amounts of oxygenated blood. In fact,
20% of the output of the heart goes to the head, so the scalp is highly
vascularized. Numerous studies have shown that the vascular supply to the
balding scalp is just as good as the vascular supply to the non-balding scalp. Richard Lee, M.D.
Regrowth, LLC,
www.Minoxidil.com
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