04/10/2024
Guys, stop wasting your money on PRP injections! They do not work for hair loss!
As a hair transplant surgeon I often see patients who have spent thousands of dollars on worthless unproven cures for baldness in men. Unfortunately while many marketing companies promote vitamins and pills to prevent or even reverse hair loss, scientific evidence is sorely lacking for their claimed remedies. For pills that claim to correct the nutritional deficiencies that are causing hair loss it would be quite simple to actually measure those nutritional levels and check if the patient actually has a nutritional deficiency that is causing their hair loss. There is no scientific evidence that PRP injections can bring dead hair follicles to life so that they begin generating new hair. PRP (platelet rich plasma) is created by simply spinning down whole blood and while it does have many nutritional and growth factors when injected into the scalp those factors will be washed away by regional blood flow within 30 minutes. PRP injections will not stop hair that is genetically pre-programmed for early death from their inevitable fate. Patients who have spent substantial sums of money on these scientifically unproven treatments are inevitably disappointed.
