How can platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy help with hair loss?

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy can help with hair loss in that it causes inactive hair follicles to switch to an active growth phase

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[MUSIC PLAYING] Now, these treatments typically are performed every 3 to 4 months on average, and they're seeing the results after about 6 to 12 months.

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So PRP is one of the newest treatments for thinning hair. And basically what we do with PRP is we separate out the platelets from the remainder of the blood.

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And that's chock full of growth factors. And the idea then is when you inject that platelet rich plasma, those growth factors, into the hair,

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around the hair follicles, it causes inactive hair follicles to switch to an active growth phase. And this causes the hair to look fuller.

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Now, these treatments typically are performed every 3 to 4 months on average, and they're seeing the results after about 6 to 12 months.

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But it's a brand new treatment and we're still getting more and more information and evidence regarding this.

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Now, injecting PRP into the scalp to enhance hair growth is performed starting by drawing the actual blood.

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So we draw the blood from a person's arm. And we place that blood into a specialized vial. That vial is then placed into a centrifuge

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and spun real quickly. That causes the blood to separate so you can separate the red blood cells from the plasma, which is rich in platelets.

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That platelet-rich plasma is chock full of growth factors. And when that's injected into the scalp, it causes the hair follicles to go from an inactive growth phase