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Plant extract that may grow hair discovered by Japan’s Rohto Pharmaceutical

Plants, you gotta love ’em.

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Japanese researchers learn how to grow hair follicles, and probably new hair

If you want hair restoration, better go to the source.

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Wasabi found to promote hair growth 3 times faster than minoxidil

But don’t worry, you don’t need to eat it.

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Japanese cosmetic company Shiseido expects to have baldness cure on the market by 2018

Three more years…

For much of my life I’ve been waiting for this moment. Even throughout my youth I glanced at the hairlines of relatives and wondered what would become of me. At the same time I figured medical science would have to have developed something by the time my hair would start falling out.

However, as I entered my thirties and began to look more and more like an octopus was attacking me when my hair got wet, there still seemed to be no true cure for baldness on the horizon. They were out there cloning sheep and growing ears on the backs of mice, but they still couldn’t give me a little action up top.

And just as I raised my razor to go the Bruce Willis route, a ray of hope shone on my news feed. It said that the cure to baldness actually lies inside me and my delicious stem cells, and that the key to unlocking it would be available in just three more years…

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