The use of hair gel on it’s own does not cause hair loss and in fact you could use gel regularly for a long period of time without experiencing any negative side effects, providing you wash your hair and scalp well every day and avoid going to sleep with gel in your hair.

However gel may have an impact on hair loss.

Here’s why

Hair grows in phases. Each individual hair on your head grows for a period (several years), then it goes into a resting period for around two weeks, before it falls out. The hair that has been shed will be replaced with a new hair. This is why it is important to keep the scalp clean and the pores clear and unblocked.

Ever noticed bald people often have shiny scalps?

You may have made the observation that many bald people and people with receding hair lines or thinning hair, often have shiny scalps. This shiny layer is caused by a build up of an oil called ‘sebum’, which combines with dead skin cells, cosmetic styling products (such as hair gel) and other pollutants. This oil layer builds up and becomes embedded into the scalp, making it impossible to wash out using conventional shampooing methods. The hardened embedded oil fills in pores around the edges, eventually entirely filling the pores. This causes hair follicle miniaturization and eventually can contribute to total hair loss.

So, while hair gel does not cause hair loss, it may be a contributing factor, especially if you have used it for years without being careful to wash your hair and scalp daily, particularly before bed, in order to prevent the clogging of your skins pores.

Examine your scalp under a good light. Is it very shiny? If so it may be coated with a hardened and embedded layer of sebum based plaque.

What can you do about this?

Unfortunately in many cases the plaque layer is so embedded into the skin that no shampoo can remove it. In fact there is really only one way of effectively removing it and clearing the pores.

In step 1 of the nicehair.org Hair Loss eBook I provide detailed instructions explaining exactly how to fully remove the embedded layer of plaque, in your home, using the only known method for achieving this vital objective — to the fullest extent, making your scalp absolutely like new. This will revitalize and invigorate your scalp, encouraging blood flow and cell production.

Once the coating has been removed you will learn how to reactivate the dormant hair follicles and you will start to see new hair growing within a month or so.

Then you will learn how to stop the the sebum based plaque layer from reforming by normalizing your sebum levels.

That’s the first step of the book. There are six steps. After you’ve completed step 1 you will go on to learn how to eliminate stress, making yourself a calm relaxed person using our free audio files that you can listen to at any time, without any effort. These files will bombard your brain with positive messages that will gradually change the way you think, making you a calm individual who reacts to stressful situations in a relaxed manner.

In steps 3 to 6 you will learn how to normalize hormonal balance (a key factor to stopping hair loss), improve the efficiency of your liver (another key factor), turbo charge your hair growth with a key food (eaten at a specific time in combination with several other key foods) and finally you will learn how to turbo charge your circulation to get an abundance of nutrients to the newly re-activated hair follicles.

This six step programme will change the ‘mode’ of your body from one that is experiencing hair loss to one that naturally grows hair.

“Can the hair that have fallen be grown back?”

Thanks for your question.

Yes. Hair sheds on a daily basis and this is natural. Noticeable ‘hair loss’ occurs when new hairs fail to replace the shed ones. Therefore our main objectives are:

• to make sure shed hairs are replaced by new ones and
• to prolong the length of the hairs natural growth phase.

By doing so you effectively stop hair loss.

Can you regrow lost hair?

Yes it is possible to grow your hair back after experiencing a period of noticeable hair loss. In order to do this you have to re-activate dormant hair follicles. However if the scalp becomes bald for a long period it may be the case that the hair follicles have completely died and are no-longer present. In such cases it is not possible to re-activate dormant hair follicles, as there are no-longer hair follicles present. Therefore it is important to re-activate the dormant hair follicles as soon as possible; before they die.

I have been receding for at least 20 years. I would say I’ve lost at least 40% of my hair. Is it still possible to reactive hair follicles after all that time? Do hair follicles eventually die or do they just go into a dormant state? Does age play apart in the recovery of hair follicles?

Thanks for your question.

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