Alastair Hall


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Vitamin D - The Vitamin for Hair Loss

It seems that the vitamin for hair loss is vitamin D . Research on mice shows that vitamin D, namely 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D regulates the expression of genes of the skin. When scientists knocked out those genes, the mice displayed vitamin D deficient symptoms of rickets and hair loss. They had total hair loss at 8 months old with the formation of dermal cysts starting at the age of 3 weeks. This is a... (posted by Alastair 5 years 337 days ago.)