Hair Million
Herbal formula for hair growth and restoration.
Rejuvinate your hair by taking safe and healthy herbs.
Lutein-6 and
Lutein-20
Lutein helps to protect your over-worked
eyes from aging and environmental harms.
Milk thistle
Silymarin helps to protect your liver, an
over-worked organ.
Saw palmetto
A herb that deters prostate enlargement.
Triple B Super Vision
Best eye nutritions in one tablet.
A visionary product for eyes.
Garlic, Ginger, and Grapeseed Extract
Majestic trio of garlic, ginger, and grapeseed
extract. What could be better?
Ginseng and Ginkgo
Ginseng and Gingko biloba together, for
sound body and sound mind.
DHEA
The hormone of youth and health.
Coenzyme Q10
Strong anti-oxidant that does your heart good.
Sleep Aid herbal formula
Good sleep, the best medicine.
Herbal Breath
Clean and healthy herbal breath.
Weight loss herbal formula
Best herbs for PMS and menopause.
Herbs for women's health.
Hair growth, hair restoration information pages.
What is hair?
Curly Hair
Biology of hair growth and development.
The phenomenon of hair loss.
Methods and treatments for hair loss and baldness.
Drugs and hair transplantation surgery for hair loss and baldness.
Hair loss linked to other health problems
Baldness by choice and fashion
Alopecia info.
Alopecia treatment info.
Alopecia treatment info.
Hair care info.
Hair loss and alopecia research articles: abstracts and source links.
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All Products
Double G SuperPower, Ginko Biloba...
AntiAging/AntiOxidants
Coenzyme Q10, Royal Jelly...
Eye Health/Vision Care
Triple B Super Vision, Lutein...
Liver Protection
Milk thistle, ViaVita Lecithin...
Breath/Stomach
Herbal Breath, Stomagic...
Immune Health/ Headache
Echinacea, Bye Mygrain... |
Sports and Stamina
Golden Ener-Z, DHEA, ProStamina...
Bodily Health/Tonic
Triple G Super Health, PeptiTonic...
Colon Cleansing/Weight Loss
Slim Essence, LaxaColon...
Hair Growth/Prostate Health
Hair Million, Saw Palmetto
Sleep Aid/Stress Care
Good Dream, MySerena...
For Women/menopause/PMS
Natural Wonder Woman, FeminiCare,... |
Curly Hair, Straight Hair
What makes hair curly?
Hair is largely made up of a protein called keratin, encoded by a member of intermediate
filament protein genes that consist a large multigene family in animals.
Keratin is a major structural protein in hair and skin.
In human, keratin
genes are clustered in the long arm of chromosome 17 (17q). Straight, curly or
woolly hair occurs as a consequence
of the subtle variations in keratin genes among individuals and races.
Keratins are proteins, and the primary component of hair, consisting of long chains (polymers)
of amino acids. Keratin proteins are in filament shape, and form a structurally supporting
network (cytoskeletal structure)around the nucleus of the epidermal cell.
Keratins provide structural strengths in hair, nails, the enamel of teeth, feathers,
hooves, horny tissues, and epidermal cells.
Keratin proteins account for about 90% of the total hair fiber by weight.
Keratin protein family exist in a variety of subtypes, and some of them are so called
"hard" keratins which are water insoluble and difficult to enzymatically break down, and
others called "soft" keratin that are water soluble and enzymatically degradable.
Hair fiber and other hard tissues made of dead cells are made of hard keratins, while
soft keratins make up the structural components inside the living cells.
Keratins and other proteins contain amino acids including cysteins, which carry highly
reactive sulfhydril group (-SH) and are capable of forming disulfide bonds within the
polypeptide chain, or between the polypeptide chains. The curliness of hair is determined
by the amount of disulfide bonds between the pairs of cysteins in keratin proteins.
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