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Signs of hair loss
Signs of Early Balding
The Early Signs of Balding If you’re wondering what the early signs of balding are, it’s a good sign. It means that if you do have hair loss, you’ve caught it in its earliest stages. Sure, if you don’t intervene, the result might be barely-there hair (although it’s...
How to Tell If My Hair Is Thinning
How Can I Tell If My Hair Is Thinning? A bad hair day isn’t fun but it’s manageable. Multiple bad hair days in a row? Now that might get you thinking. Is your hair just having an off moment? Is it the shampoo you’re using? Are you sleeping differently? Or is your hair...
Receding Hairline vs. Maturing Hairline
Receding Hairline Vs. Maturing Hairline - Time for Caution? Your hairline is the outermost part of your hair around your forehead. But it’s not a static thing. It moves and changes with age and a range of other factors. When you’re a teenager, you have a head full of...
Male hair loss
Male Hair Loss Stages
Hair Loss Stages for Men: What to Look for Very few men will walk through life without some form of hair thinning or hair loss. In fact, 80% of all Australian men experience hair loss at some point. It’s a daunting prospect, sure. But just because your dad or your...
How to Prevent Thinning Hair for Men
How To Prevent Hair Thinning: Men’s Edition Let's face it, noticing your hair thinning can be a downer. It’s hardly a comfort to know that in males, it’s incredibly common for strands to become smaller and finer as you age. Nearly 20% of Australian men in their 20s...
What is Male Pattern Baldness?
What is Male Pattern Baldness? Male pattern baldness (MPB) is the most common type of hair loss for men. About half of all men experience it by the age of 50 and by the age of 70, that number jumps to 80%. For many men, male pattern baldness can begin in their 20s but...
Female hair loss
Thinning Hair in Women
Thinning Hair In Women: Why Is Your Hair Falling Out? Thinning hair is a hairy prospect. You might resist the idea or try to convince yourself that it’s all in your imagination — the thinner ponytail, the clogged shower drain. Let’s put your mind at ease. A certain...
Female Hair Loss Stages
Hair Loss Stages for Women: What to Look for Hair loss is rarely ever a pleasant experience but it can be comforting to know that it’s a fairly common one — yes, even among women. In fact, more than 55% of women experience some degree of hair shedding in their...
Balding Women
Balding in Woman - Can Women Go Bald? When Deb Jones started to lose her hair in handfuls after a bout of COVID-19, she feared that she would lose it all. Surely, she would eventually end up bald? It’s true, women can go bald. But it’s incredibly rare and looks a bit...
Medical care
Hair Growth Medication – How Long Does It Take?
Hair Growth Medication: How Long Does It Really Take? So you’ve started on your new hair growth tablets and just one question is on your mind: How long until it works? Effective hair growth treatments aren’t about gimmicky elixirs that promise luscious locks or a...
Causes of hair loss
Malnutrition Hair Loss
Does Malnutrition Cause Hair Loss? Malnutrition happens when your body doesn’t get the nutrients and energy it needs to thrive. Maybe you’re not eating enough. Or you might have an illness that’s preventing your body from absorbing nutrients. Whatever the case, it...
Keto Hair Loss
Keto Hair Loss: Potential Causes and How to Stop It Many people around the world have sworn by the low-carb, high-fat keto diet. It’s been so popular that you might be asking: what’s the catch? Sure, you might shed some weight on keto. But it’s so restrictive that you...
Can Vitamin Deficiencies Cause Hair Loss?
As one of the most metabolically active parts of our body, our hair follicles can be a good indication of what’s going on inside us. Our follicles need nutrients to thrive and produce healthy hair. Deprive them of some of these nutrients and the deficiency may lead...
Hair loss treatments
Identifying & Treating Alopecia
Identifying & Treating the Different Types of Alopecia What exactly is alopecia? The short answer: It’s the medical term we use to describe hair loss. But it’s more than that. To begin with, there are different types of alopecia that affect people in different...
What is Telogen Effluvium and How Is It Treated?
What is Telogen Effluvium and How to Treat It When Deb Jones began suddenly losing handfuls of her thick hair after each wash, she couldn’t believe it. Her hair grew so thin that she hid it beneath hats and thought she would eventually go bald. What she was...
Anagen Effluvium Hair Loss – Causes & Treatments
Anagen Effluvium Hair Loss - Causes & Treatments Anagen effluvium is a type of hair loss that can result in total (or near total) balding. It’s commonly caused by cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation but it’s usually reversed once treatment has...
Types of hair loss
Herbs for Treating Hair Loss
The Best Herbs for Hair Loss Treatment (According to the Science) For aeons, different societies across the globe have used herbs in hair growth potions. They’re still used today in many Ayurvedic or Chinese treatments to treat hair loss. Researchers are beginning to...
Vitamins for Healthy Hair
Which Vitamins Keep Your Hair Healthy? Our hair follicles are busy bees. As highly active parts of our body, they need nutrients to produce healthy hair. These nutrients include a range of vitamins that help grow hair, including...
Finasteride for Hair Loss: Does It Really Work?
Finasteride for Hair Loss: Does It Really Work? A noticeably thinning hairline or a looser-than-usual ponytail is enough to send you to your phone to google if and why your hair is thinning and, more importantly, if there’s anything you can do to stop it (or even grow...
Hair loss myths
Does Creatine Cause Hair Loss?
Does Creatine Cause Hair Loss? Some rumours have been going around about creatine, a popular sports and nutritional supplement used to boost muscle mass and athletic performance. Thanks largely to a 15-year-old study, there’s a widespread belief that creatine causes...
Dandruff And Hair Loss: Are They Connected?
Dandruff and Hair Loss: Are They Connected? Dandruff can be a distressing condition for anybody. For some people, it’s up there with hair loss — which makes it especially disconcerting when people start connecting hair loss to dandruff. It’s an unpleasant thought,...
Castor Oil for Hair Growth: Myth or Magic?
Castor Oil for Hair Growth: Myth or Magic? For decades, people have sung about the benefits of castor oil for hair growth. But at The Hairy Pill®, we like to maintain some healthy scepticism. So we’ve taken a good look at castor oil to see if there is any credibility...
Hair science
The Best Foods for Hair Growth (According to the Science)
The Best Foods for Hair Growth (According to the Science) Bread crusts give you curls and biotin is a superstar for hair growth. At least, those are just some of the hair growth myths we’re told. There are a lot of misconceptions out there when it comes to food for...
Hair Growth Cycles: How Does Hair Grow?
Hair Growth Cycles: How Does Hair Grow? For decades, a group of scientists have been asking one simple question: How does hair grow? The answer, they’ve discovered, isn’t straightforward. But while there’s plenty of research still to be done, they’ve figured out the...
Hair Follicles & Their Role in Hair Growth
Hair Follicles - Their Role in Hair Growth We barely give a thought to our hair until we start losing it. Only then do we start wanting to know: how does hair grow? And how can we keep it growing? Follow every strand of hair back to its roots and you’ll find a hair...
Hair health
Weak Hair – Causes & Treatments
Let’s talk about weak hair. We know this topic is about as fun as watching your hair dry but talking about it may actually help you beat the brittle, frizzy hair and restore your luscious locks. Understanding the symptoms and causes of weak hair gives you an...
6 Lifestyle Changes For Healthy Hair Growth
We all want thick and healthy hair but there’s no need to try the latest viral hacks to get those luscious locks and superstar volume. Let’s put the old wives’ tales to rest — no, crusts won’t curl your hair — and look at real lifestyle changes you can make to...
A Guide to Growing And Maintaining Healthy Hair
Fed up with limp, frizzy, split-ended, or barely-there hair? Finding the right routine to have strong and healthy locks can feel like an uphill battle. And even when you do find the Goldilocks protocol of washing, brushing, and styling, something — call it aging,...
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Treatment contains a collection of personalised ingredients that have been clinically proven to decrease the production of the hormone responsible for hair loss and stimulate blood flow to the hair follicles to stimulate regrowth.
What to expect
- 0 – 3 months: Hair loss may slow or stop. New hairs may begin to push out the old (known as shedding).
- 3 – 6 months: Hair shedding may slow down and you may notice new hair growth.
- 6 – 12 months: Your hair may become thicker, fuller, and stronger all over.
Service available for:
- Thinning (diffuse) hair
- Bald spots
- Receding hairline
- Weak hair