Consumer Education - Copper Peptide - A New Breed of Hair Growth Stimulant

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Copper Peptides - A New Breed of Hair Growth Stimulant

SOURCE

Dr. Pickart, Skin Biology, Inc.

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Copper ion complexed with certain peptides has both skin repair and hair growth enhancement effects. Examples of this are Folligen (from Skin Biology) and Tricomin and GraftCyte (from ProCyte Corporation). The Proctor Gamble Company has patented as hair growth compounds a number of copper complexes with peptides such His-Gly-Gly and similar compounds.

The skin of the mouse to the left was shaved, then treated in three spots with Folligen. The result is a much more rapid hair growth (the three circular patches
of hair) in the three spots treated with Folligen. While human hair growth will

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not respond nearly as dramatically as in mice, skin health and hair follicle function are closely interrelated. New skin appears to arise from the hair follicle. As a person ages, our hair follicles get smaller, producing thinner hair shafts. The blood circulation system that supplies nutrients and oxygen to the hair follicle send fewer blood vessels to the hair follicle, thus inhibiting the vital flow of nutrients to the hair follicle. Copper-peptide complexes improve skin health and a more healthy skin increases the blood vessel network to the hair follicles resulting in larger follicles that grow hair faster with thicker hair shafts.

In a similar experiement with copper-peptides, two groups of mice were involved, one treated with copper-peptides and the other without. The group treated with copper peptides reported larger hair follicles and increased content of subcutaneous fat in the skin and the increased thickness of the skin. When we are young, we have a layer of fat under the skin (part of "baby fat") which is greatly reduced as we age. Hair researchers have noted the accumulation of this fat around healthy follicles that are vigorously growing hair, and its relative lack in around dormant follicles, and have postulated that these cells serve a supportive function for the hair follicle. In animal studies, copper peptides have reduced or stopped the hair loss associated with chemotherapy for cancer. It must be emphasized that effects in in humans on hair follicle health are not as dramatic.

There are currently numerous patents issued for copper-peptides covering it's hair growth stimulant properties. Specifically, the patents addressed how copper-peptides can reverse, slow down or stop adrogenetic alopecia (eg: male pattern baldness & female pattern baldess), alopecia areata, and chemotherapy or radiation induced hair loss.

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