EmuOilDepot.com Monthly Newsletter - Issue #6 - March 19th, 2007
 

Emu Oil And Hair Growth

Dr. Michael Holick, M.D, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Dermatology
at Boston University School of Medicine, conducted a study involving a processed
emu oil, and the results were so outstanding that they quickly became a topic of
conversation in many medical and other journals.

Dr. Holick revealed that he and his associates had been very interested in looking
at factors that stimulate and inhibit both skin and hair growth. He had been
introduced to a processed emu oil by representatives of a company that processes
and sells the oil.

"They had told me about the wondrous things that it's doing from their own
anecdotal experience. My feeling was that the only way to really know whether or
not this oil has some biologic property was to do a control study in a laboratory
setting."

"We depilated some mice and we then topically applied, in a blinded fashion, emu
oil and corn oil to two different groups of mice, and we did this for two weeks,"
he explained.

24 hours before the conclusion of the study, the mice were given an injection of a
label that indicates what the DNA turnover is. The injection was a monitor of how
quickly their DNA was multiplying. Skin was then obtained from the animals the
next day and analyzed.

"We found that there was about a 20% increase in DNA synthesis, which means
that there was a 20% increase in the proliferative activity, or the growth activity
of the skin in the animals that received the emu oil compared to the animals that
received corn oil," said Dr. Holick.

"And when we looked at the hair follicles, and the thickness of the skin, it showed
that the hair follicles were much more robust, and that the skin thickness was
remarkably increased, suggesting that the emu oil stimulated skin growth and hair
growth in these animals. Also, we discovered in the same test that over 80% of
hair follicles that had been asleep were woken up, and began growing hair."

Hair Follicles Go Through A Cycle

"A hair follicle goes through a cycle. It goes from a resting stage into an active
growth period, and then it goes back to sleep again. We woke up all the hair
follicles by stimulating them, and then we wanted to see if we could further
stimulate these hair follicles by topically applying emu oil.

We found that there was an enhancement in the growth activity of the hair follicles.
So it gives us a very good scientific indication that we were stimulating skin growth
with emu oil," Dr. Holick elaborated.

"We now have some evidence..........that emu oil will actually stimulate skin
growth, and may either stimulate and or maintain hair growth."

Source: ET&T