PRP Injections for Hair Loss, Does It Work?

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the last several years, medical specialists have started using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections to address both skin rejuvenation and hair loss for men and women. Hair loss can often be associated with loss of blood flow to the scalp. PRP, which is “spun up” from your own blood, is a relatively safe and natural way to stimulate hair growth or collagen production in the skin. Results vary, but with minimal side effects and relatively low cost, PRP treatment is worth investigating. https://drruscio.com/?p=27839

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:26.9	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	any disease.
0:33.2	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.1	Now, let's head to the show.
0:40.3	Hey, everyone. Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio. This is Dr. Rousho. I'm here with Dr. Jeff
0:43.8	Birchall, who is an expert in PRP therapy, a type of injection. We'll get to that in a moment
0:50.5	that can help with hair loss and also with skin health. And we're going to
0:56.5	focus more so on hair, but we might also venture a bit into skin. And this might be some
1:01.8	type of, I guess we could term it plainly, euthanizing injectable therapy that could help
1:08.5	with hair loss. So, Jeff, welcome to the show and thanks for being here.
1:11.6	I appreciate you giving me the opportunity. I'm looking forward to it.
1:14.6	Yeah, this is something I've been following for a little while and I wanted to bring someone on who's really focusing on doing this therapy and clinical practice so we get kind of a boots on the ground clinician perspective.
1:25.6	So very excited to do that. Tell us a little bit
1:29.8	about your background and how you got into how you're using this in the clinic now.
1:35.4	Sure. So my background was family practice and did that for 15 years here in Southern California.
1:41.5	And about 12 years ago, branched off into cosmetic medicine
1:45.1	in general and have been using variety of modalities that way and in the cosmetic world
1:52.1	hair loss is a pretty significant factor I think there's a lot of a emotion that goes into
1:56.8	losing hair as we get older both males and females and so you're always looking for things that you can do to make a difference there.
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