HairSite |
||||||
SUBJECT |
|
|||||
SOURCE |
|
SPONSORS |
||||
Iamin is a small peptide that tightly binds copper that was discovered by Dr. Loren Pickart during basic research on the mechanisms of human aging. It is a signal factor in humans for the regeneration of skin, hair, bone tissue, and the stomach and intestinal linings. As we age the amount of Iamin that is produced in our bodies is reduced, and this may be a cause of poorer tissue regeneration with aging. Products for wound healing containing Iamin are sold by Bard Medical, Merck, and several other cosmeceutical boutiques on the internet. Skin repair and hair growth enhancement effects are closely linked. New skin appears to arise from the hair follicle. Certain products based on Iamin can be used to both repair skin, increase hair follicle size, and stimulate hair growth. As a person ages, our hair follicles get smaller, producing thinner hair shafts. A major cause of hair follicle miniaturization appears to due to the development of striking changes in capillaries surrounding the hair follicles. Comprehensive surveys of the male scalp from birth to senescence find that very significant changes in the structure of the blood vessels of the scalp. As the amount of Iamin in our body diminished, the number of the blood capillary loops supplying hair follicles also dwindled. The inadequate subepidermal circulation that can develop as males age does not provide a rich nutrition for the follicle. Strong hair growth requires a large flow of nutrients such as such as vitamins, minerals and amino acids so that the follicle can actively synthesize new hair. Blood flow impairments to the follicle, and their reversal, may explain why the administration of copper peptides (such as Folligen and Tricomin) to the scalp increase hair growth and increase the size of hair shafts. It has long been known that certain copper-peptide complexes strongly stimulate angiogenesis or new blood vessel formation. The increase in hair follicle size and the rate of hair growth caused by the administration of copper-peptides may be due to their causing blood flow changes that provide adequate nutrients to the follicle, producing faster growing hair with thicker hair shafts. Iamin-based hair products include Folligen by Skin Biology and the GraftCyte hair restoration system to improve hair transplant success (sold by ProCyte Corporation) and the Tricomin products to improve thinning hair (sold development by ProCyte Corporation). In addition, Proctor and Gamble has also patented copper peptides that stimulate hair growth. (His-Gly-Gly Peptide and Derivatives Thereof for Hair Growth. Kronholm et al, US Patent #5,252,559). Dr. Pickart via HairSite
Editorial Forums / Community
======================= A Final Word from our Sponsors
|
|
|||||