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Hot or cold? When it comes to hair loss, there are dozens of things you can try to help restore healthy hair growth. Even making several small changes might all add up to give a beneficial effect. So this newsletter focuses on one such idea: Should you wash your hair using hot water or cold water? Or does it make absolutely no difference at all? Can these water temperature ideas increase blood flow to the scalp and improve hair growth? And if so, which one works best? Well first of all, it's important to keep things in perspective: any increase in circulation achieved in this way will only be for a short time. As your body quickly restores its normal temperature, it will also restore its normal blood flow in the capillaries of your scalp. Only warm or cool water should be used to wash and rinse your hair, not hot or cold. Very hot water will burn and damage your skin which, quite obviously, won't help your hair at all. And any beneficial effect freezing cold water might have will almost certainly be achieved using cooler water which will be a lot easier to tolerate. Heat dilates blood vessels. This causes blood to rush to the skin (which is obviously good for hair growth). Dilated blood vessels also allow the body to reduce the temperature back to normal through evaporation of sweat from the skin. Cold constricts blood vessels. This reduces blood flow to your skin and causes blood to rush to your internal organs. However, it will also flush blood through the blood vessels of your skin leaving it oxygenated (which is obviously good for hair growth). So you can see that both warm and cool water may help scalp circulation to a small extent. There are other effects of water temperature that you should also be aware of: Warm water will open up the cuticle (outer layer of the hair shaft) and may give the appearance of slightly thicker hair. It should also be noted that naturally thick hair is a genetically determined factor - the more layers of scales the cuticle has, the thicker your hair will be. From the top edge in the diagram below you can just about count six scale layers in the cuticle of this example. Cool water will close the cuticle. This can increase the strength of the hair and add shine to its appearance. And, by closing the cuticle, it will seal in any conditioner you use. Cool water might also help constrict the sebaceous gland openings - this can help reduce sebum production and slow down the rate at which your hair gets greasy. So now you know all about the effects of temperature on hair, which one should you choose? Warm or cool? Many hair stylists recommend a warm wash followed by a cool rinse, so this is probably the best way to look after your hair. But, whether you use warm or cool, hard water or soft water, wash daily or only once a week (or any other variable you can think of) I don't believe any of these things will either help or hinder hair growth to any significant extent. Someone with strong hair growth will continue to grow hair regardless of these factors. And someone with hair loss will probably continue to lose hair unless the underlying cause is addressed. The underlying cause of androgenetic alopecia (male and female pattern baldness) is skull bone growth as reported in the journal Medical Hypotheses (Volume 72, January 2009, Issue 1, Pages 23-28). This discovery helped me develop techniques that saved my hair. You can try these techniques yourself and save $5 on the usual purchase price of $29.95 by using the special offer link inside my free ebook: Click Here to download free ebook. Note: If your email provider does not support html, just copy and paste the link below into your browser address bar: http://www.top-hair-loss-remedy.com/support-files/skull-expansion-ebook.pdf Next issue: How dandruff can be linked to hair loss See you next week, Paul Taylor P.S. This newsletter runs in a continuous sequence. This means that any issue you might have missed will cycle back round again in about 15 weeks. Copyright © Paul Taylor 2011 You are subscribed to Reverse Hair Loss Now. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing, please click on the following URL... http://top-hair-loss-remedy.com/cgi-bin/mailout/mailmgr.cgi?us=LQ.21143584.25338636.bfa90b05eab009a50cfe6014349d5abd (If the above URL is not a link, copy-and-paste the URL into your Web browser. That will confirm your removal.) To change your e-mail address, please click on the following URL... http://top-hair-loss-remedy.com/cgi-bin/mailout/mailmgr.cgi?ca=LQ.21143584.25338636.bfa90b05eab009a50cfe6014349d5abd (If the above URL is not a link, copy-and-paste the URL into your Web browser. That will confirm your change.)