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Haarsträubend - Part 2

Alpecin Caffeine Shampoo C1

'll continue with the show supposedly science of effective anti-hair loss products. On the bottle of Alpecin Caffeine Shampoo C1 refers to the following chart:


This chart is virtually meaningless! It is a comic, which one wants to give by the coordinate system and the scale marks a scientific touch. A linear increasing curve shows that any (?) Amount of caffeine was recorded. Slightly more information is it on the side of the manufacturer, Dr. Kurt Wolff. As found, for example this image (nachgemahlt for legal reasons, a well-known spreadsheet program):


Here are at least even numbers on the vertical axis ... but you can not learn how much a unit has caffeine. And where are the two minutes of the diagram on the shampoo bottle? This can not be said! The problem: the ticks suggest that the scale is linear (with a time scale as this would mean that between two adjacent scale marks is always the same amount of time). But in fact the scale is pieced together randomly. The problem is illustrated in the next picture:


The red question mark to indicate that in the area between the times (0 min, 10 min, 30 min, ...) can not be seen as the scale develops . So you can not see where are the two minutes. What you see, however, is that the shampoo safe side should be 10 minutes to record a large part of the caffeine. experiences

on Alpecin page is that after two minutes there and as much caffeine was recorded that "there still detectable after 24 hours. This is beautiful.

But what we learn not :

• caffeine can stop hair loss?
• If so, ranging from the 2-minute recorded caffeine?

that these important questions are not answered, is because that the answers are unknown. In a Alpecin study (from Jena) are found in the test tube evidence that caffeine growth means a treatment of hereditary hair loss in men represent "could" (see the conclusions of the study Alpecin " growth phases of hair in hereditary hair loss "; can find has the Alpecin study page )

In a study from Berlin to Alpecin that caffeine was a shampoo (it's just the shampoo, which is available to buy).? actually in the hair follicles of people entering

The study was not examined whether this hair loss has stopped , although that would have been really interesting but also more expensive and risky.! would indeed came out that the caffeine shampoo the Hair loss is not stopped, it could not sell even the most serious coffee addict (at least not at the price as at the moment). Instead, one looks to whether caffeine is from the shampoo into the hair follicle. Yes, it does. Then you combine this result with the results from the test tube that caffeine to offset the harmful effects of hair Testoron or its breakdown products to hair could and voila, done is the indirect evidence. Good enough for cosmetics, but of course no proof of efficacy. If there were a proof of efficacy, which was held to review for approval as a drug, the shampoo would certainly sell more expensive than medication in the pharmacy.

Conclusion: It is not known whether caffeine helps against hair loss. Until you know it, sold Alpecin ever for expensive money the hope that it could be so . Concern to the product but the certainty of Alpecinwerbung is "bald Prevention with caffeine?" or "men given the choice: (a caffeine-) Scratch or bald?". But in fact, caffeine is not an anti-baldness-guarantee, but more of a scratch-off lot.

PS
now bicker even before court whether Alpecin advertising for caffeine as an effective protection of bald, not misleading.