Totally bald man gets full head of hair!
It happened in Stockholm. The man was totally bald for several years—I mean he had no hair whatever on the top of his head. This didn’t bother him very much, but he also suffered from hardening of the arteries and atherosclerosis, which was a greater reason for concern. The largest hospital in Sweden, Sodersjukhuset in Stockholm, tested new treatments for these diseases. Over one hundred patients participated in prolonged treatments with nicotinic acid, one of the B-vitamins, also called niacin. Our bald man was one of the patients in this test group. After three years of treatment with nicotinic acid he received a vigorous hair growth on his previously bald head and is now the proud owner of a full head of hair.
Nicotinic acid has a widening and dilating effect on blood vessels, particularly on the peripheral capillary system. It would seem that the vigorous hair growth in this case was effected by the increased blood supply through the dilated blood vessels and capillaries in the scalp.
Note: Do not confuse nicotinic acid with nicotine, which is a very dangerous poison and has no relation to nicotinic acid, a B-vitamin.
English doctor cures baldness—unintentionally!
Dr. John Kelvin reported in the British Medical Journal that he treated many patients for blood vessel disorders with the drug composition beta-pyridylkarbinol, derivative of vitamin substance pyridin-3-carbonic acid. The drug was intended to improve blood circulation in the feet and hands. The doctor noticed that some of his bald patients had new hair growth.
“I didn’t connect this new hair growth with the drug I was using until one more of my patients, who had been totally bald previously, walked into my office one morning with a beautiful and well-combed head of hair!” said the doctor.
After this incident was publicized, the English paper reported that the drug stores were stormed by a multitude of men of all ages asking for “the new tablets.”
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