Hey guys! So I'm not just making a video about hair loss here, I've actually been
experiencing it myself. So I want to show you and take you into my bathroom. This is
what I've been dealing with lately so I'll be washing my hair and literally
like clumps of hair strands will just come out of my head. And this has been
really concerning for me. I've always loved to my hair and felt like it was one
of my best features so to feel like I'm losing it now makes me worry, makes me
feel insecure, self-conscious. There is a treatment called PRP that is really
helpful to women that are experiencing this thinning and really noticeable
you know balding and hair loss in these specific areas. Usually it's around
the hairline at the very top. So I can't wait to show you the PRP process with
Dr. Deanne Robinson who I have filmed with before. You might remember me getting
Cellfina at Dr. Robinson's office, but--well literally BUTT--that's a whole other
treatment and you can watch that video in the box right here. Now let's take a
look at PRP, we'll get a second opinion and here's some personal hair loss
accounts. When did you first notice it thinning? Probably after menopause.
Which is again very common. You know hair loss in women can be very hormonal driven
and linked, similar as to men. So we notice that during menopause after pregnancy
there can be a loss of hair. Sometimes with birth control, starting or stopping it.
So it is very hormonally tied and hormonally linked. Did you notice your part
getting wider? YES. And that's a really common spot for us as women to notice
hair loss. You know with men we think about the bald spot and then up by the
temples but as women sometimes one of the first signs we see is
that widening up the part. But you know how we women are about our hair? Yes!
We want it to look beautiful! Of course! While we are thinning, we get nervous that
more it's gonna fall out. Of course, and 40 percent of hair loss sufferers
are women. And I think for us there's is so much self-confidence and social
stigma attached with it so it's a huge huge issue. So what we're going to do
today is the treatment called PRP or platelet-rich plasma. So what we're gonna
do is take the blood, draw it, spin it, which is going to help separate that
rich plasma from the red blood cells. The red blood cells we get rid of and the
PRP we inject into the spots that we're noticing the hair loss. Usually it's a
series of treatments, three usually separated over a month. And it takes a
full six months for our hair growth to kind of kick back-in in that hair cycle.
So we'll really notice those results after about three to six months and then
we can reassess and kind of see where that takes us. But most people notice an
increase in kind of in the density of hair, less hair falling out and regrowth
of those little areas. So here we go as Dr. Robinson preps PRP and the patient's
scalp. So I use a super fine little needle here and just do little injections right into the areas.
Doing great. How ya doing? Okay
Little pinches, right. A little bit of pressure as it goes in.
What we want to do afterwards is we want to keep that PRP where we injected it, so for 24 to 48
hours after, you don't want to really massage the scalp or do like a vigorous
shampoo just because we want to keep that PRP where we put it.
So that was really cool watching the PRP treatment. How often are you doing this?
We have people coming in quite often for this. You know, men, women, younger people,
older people, so probably a few people a day that we end up treating. Generally it
can range from about maybe $500 upwards to $1,000 per treatment.
You know, obviously this is a big investment for patients to do these injunctions so
we want to try to supplement and do as much for them at home as we're doing in
the office. So taking a supplement such as the ISDIN hair supplement that has
biotin some other nutrients saw palmetto extract which helps block the conversion
to that active testosterone, the DHT, which causes the hair loss is something
that's really important you know people want to do something at home and that's
also going to help. And then using the shampoo which helps to thick and fortify
the hair and the lotion similarly which kind of gives like a nice luster and
sheen but also a thickness to the hair, just makes people feel better on a day
to day basis. How does it make you feel that you're helping these women? I
love it. You know I think as a woman and as a provider I love being able to do
something that meaningfully reflects on our self-confidence...how we, you know,
identify ourselves how we deem ourselves. So it makes me really happy to be able
to do it for people. It's always good to get a second opinion and I was curious
what kind of success other doctors were having with PRP. Meet Dr. Brock Ridenour
of Ridenour Plastic Surgery. We treat patients with hair loss with increasing
frequency. The reason for that I think is because we are now using non-surgical
methods to manage hair loss that are quite effective where in the past the
only options were really surgical sorts of procedures. 50% of women in their 50's
and 60's will experience this type of hair loss that's androgenic in nature,
resulting in loss of hair density that can be quite
devastating and certainly can be quite noticeable.
My name is Amparo. I had done a detox and all of a sudden my hair was...I could see
significant thinning. I could see more in the shower. I began seeing some hair on my
pillow, and that was really frightening. So that's when I realized something more
than the normal shedding that you get between seasons. I could notice especially
after I wash my hair that it looked thinner in the in the back, and that's
like I said, when I began getting concerned. People may see that I still
have a lot and I hope I continue to but there is a lot missing especially in the top of the head.
Stress is involved in a particular type of hair loss called
telogen effluvium, which is a sudden and precipitous sort of shedding or falling
out of the hair that tends to be temporary in nature.
My name is Jessica Cullela and I'm a yoga instructor at Yoga Six. So I began to notice the hair
loss. It was about five or six months after having Oliver, my second child. This
happened with both of my kids but it was to a much more intense degree with
Oliver. I would wash my hair and it would my fingers would just be webbed with
with hair coming out and just in clumps. I was also going through postpartum depression at the time.
You should think of hair like a plant with a root system
under the under ground and that root system requires the proper nutrition, the
proper blood flow, and the proper hormonal interactions in order to flourish.
I noticed the last few days something is beginning to fall out more
than last couple of weeks so would I try something else? Yeah, I would like to.
Platelet-rich plasma. Why is platelet-rich plasma important
it's because the platelets carry a bunch of powerhouse of wound healing factors
and they're our first-line response to injury, the platelets are. And they
release hormones and growth factors that
stimulate a healing response. It turns out if you take the power of those
platelets that there tends to be some regenerative capability of those
particular proteins on hair follicles. And what we think happens with PRP is
we're stimulating those potential cells to regenerate a healthy follicle. We've
been very very happy and our patients have too. Our doctors have told us that PRP
works, and these post procedure pictures of our patient who was treated at the
beginning of this video really say it all. You can see all the regrowth that
she's experienced and these pictures were literally taken within months of
her first PRP treatment. As for our yoga instructor Jessica and even myself, we're
not quite there yet where we feel we need PRP.
I would be open to supplements shampoos anything that can help.
So I gave Jessica the ISDIN Healthy Scalp supplements that I've been using to nourish and feed
her post pregnancy hair. So it's definitely an emotional attachment to
your hair. It's how you look and who you are. Amparo is spot on when it comes to
women and their hair. It's how we see ourselves it's how we express ourselves.
Our hair is our greatest ornament. That's a quote by someone famous you can
probably look it up and you know when you start to lose your hair it affects
us in that same way, especially when you feel like there's nothing you can do
about it. So I want to continue this conversation and movement to sharing, you
know, solutions and treatments that can help us maintain and stimulate the
regrowth of this hair. So if you're experiencing this, you know someone who is,
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