I will write a long text about "shedding" soon which will be displayed on our page, too.Jacob wrote:BTW....some are worried about shedding with this product..or any product. Some say it's good..some freak out and think nothing good can come of it. And I don't know if this would even prevent such a shed(for those who don't believe in shed'n)..but I wonder if slowwwly introducing a new topical like this into ones regimen would help. I think sometimes such a quick introduction to a new topical shocks the scalp/hair and initially causes "problems. Maybe waiting a few days after the initial application...slowly working up to once a day and even twice a day..would be a good idea It's what I do..but who knows if it'd prevent the sheds for those who'd otherwise experience 'em.
Just a few words in advance:
In order to fall out a hair has to terminate the anagen phase, go through the catagen, telogen and exogen phase. That is not going to happen overnight. If you get shedding from a product already after 2 days of application it is because those hairs which are already in the telogen phase get pushed out by new hairs. The more hair you have in telogen phase the stronger will be your shedding if you use a product like Minoxidil which induces the anagen phase. Those people who report about little or no shedding usually don´t have a strong hair loss problem. But those people who have made a trichoscan and were told that they have way too many hairs in the telogen phase, they get strong shedding, but that is a good sign. In my opinion, the severity of shedding correlates with the severity of the hair loss problem. I am not surprised that Mark didn´t get noticeable shedding from Capillogain Tonic.
Some people are worried that a product may do harm to their hair if it causes shedding after about 2 days of application. But substances that are really bad for hair growth, like those used in a chemotherapy, need about 3 to 4 weeks to cause the hair to fall out. To cause an anagen hair to fall out it needs some time.
Etoposide is such a chemotherapy drug, you can read about the time it needs to cause hair loss here:
http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinfor ... oside.aspx
A nice publication on the hair cycle can be found here
http://jcs.biologists.org/content/119/3/391.full.pdf
But the focus is on the hair cycle in mice. Nevertheless, it is useful to look some terms up like "OHRS" and so on, which you can find in the drawings.