I’ve recently applied for some Australian Federal Govt. funding to prove what I have long (anecdotally) known - Alopecia areata can be caused by food allergies (Gluten - the main protein wheat + Dairy) in greater 90% of young children at first presentation.

As a Trichologist specialising in the causes and treatment of female hair loss, I am consulted by many women – who by good fortune or sheer desperation – see me as their final hope.

 

Scalp rollers or ’scourers’ are now being sold online, and by some commercial hair loss centres as an application enhancer for Minoxidil topical solution.

25th Sep, 2008

Absolute Disgrace…

In the fourteen years I’ve been involved in the hair treatment industry I’ve never seen anything like it … a late-20’s single man taken in by the heavy print media advertising and ‘guaranteed promises’ of a certain individual operating in Sydney CBD.

I’ve on occasion been critical of Doctors who appear not to listen to what symptoms female patients are relating – particularly hair loss concerns – and refuse to consider anything other than ‘generic’ blood testing in place of symptom-specific testing – if they order any testing at all.

Low level laser light therapy (LLLT) has been the hi-tech, so-called ‘wonder’ treatment for hair loss + scalp problems in Australia for more than a decade.

As a continually growing appendage of the skin, hair is one of the body’s most metabolically-active tissues, and often reflects the first signals of internal disturbance.

Every woman knows her hair is her ‘crowning glory’ – and an essential feature to her femininity. For most Mothers-to-be, this is especially important when her body is changing shape and her weight and size are increasing. She may feel less attractive – and if her hair is falling out – even more so.

Relatively few people not from a health background really know the function of the thyroid gland. Fewer still realise the intricate complexity of producing thyroid hormone; its conversion process, and eventual intra-cell activation. This journey requires specific nutrients, hormones and body systems all harmoniously focused - but with uniquely separate roles to play.

Read more of this important article here…

Most Medical Practitioners understand that Medicare is NOT about promoting wellness or even illness prevention. Medicare’s raison d’etre is authorise and fund the investigation of medical/surgical/palliative treatment of disease as it arises - at minimal expense and shortest hospital stay.

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