By increasing the number and activity of Stem Cells in the hair follicles the result is a reversal of hair loss.

What is a Stem Cell?

Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth. In addition, in many tissues they serve as a sort of internal repair system, dividing essentially without limit, to replenish other cells as long as the person or animal is still alive. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential either to remain a stem cell or become another type of cell with a more specialized function, such as a muscle cell, a red blood cell, or a brain cell. ALL CAUSES OF HAIR LOSS RESULT IN A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER AND ACTIVITY OF STEM CELLS IN THE HAIR FOLLICLE!

A. What Stem Cell Treatments are Available?

There are several methods of stem cell transplants that are currently available which transfer your own adult stem cells from one location to another. Embryonic stem cells are not available.

B. Types of Stem Cells?

Until recently, scientists primarily worked with two kinds of stem cells from animals and humans: embryonic stem cells and non-embryonic "somatic" or "adult" stem cells.

C. What are Embryonic Stem Cells?

Embryonic stem cells, as their name suggests, are derived from embryos. Most embryonic  stem cells are derived from embryos that develop from eggs that have been fertilized and their use is restricted by our governments. There are no legally available uses for embryonic stem cells in Canada or the US.

D. What are adult stem cells

Adult Stem Cells are not embryonic. Once an embryo developes into fully formed infant there are no longer any embryonic stem cells remaining. From birth onward we only have Adult Stem Cells.

Due to the new methods of harvesting Adult  Stem Cells  from fat (these are termed Mesenchymal Adult Stem Cells), these can now be used today in many procedures without the  ethical concerns of using Embryonic Stem Cells. 

For example, a skin graft from healthy area of skin to a burned area is actually a Stem Cell transplant. Another example is a conventional hair transplant of hair follicles from a hair bearing area to a hair depleted area which is also in fact, a stem cell transplant.

Dr. Adams is among the first doctors in Canada to under go mesenchymal stem cell transplant training.

By taking your own stem cells from fat and transferring them to the scalp, face or other areas of your body, these cells increase the reparative capacity of the tissues receiving the transplant.

So for areas of hair loss, there can be an increase in the diameter and thickness of hair in an area undergoing thinning thereby, reversing hair loss.

For the face, an increase in Stem Cells can result in healthier more youthful skin by increasing collagen, elastin and other molecules that hold water and diminish lines and wrinkles.

Aging and disease states reduce the reservoir of Stem Cells. As Stem Cells decrease in number and activity, aging occurs. For example, in hair bearing areas reduced Stem Cell activity result in miniaturization and thinning of hair follicles (= hair loss).

By increasing the number and activity of Stem Cells in the hair follicles, we can achieve reversal of hair loss. As long as the hairs have not died and are in a miniaturized state , the hair loss remains potentially fully reversible with Stem Cell therapy.