Hair growth by accident!

The Folligro story begins with a decorator in Europe suffering from chronic bronchitis. He was persuaded to try his grandmother's "witches brew" to rid him of his bad cough. It was a tea concocted from several herbs. "I drank the bitter concoction several times a day. Something quite unbelievable happened. Not only did it get rid of my bad cough and chest pains, but I discovered to my disbelief that my bald head had started to grow hair."

Wondering what in this herbal tea had the effect of growing back hair on bald people, he sent a sample to his brother, a scientist, who consulted with chemists and pharmacists. In 1987 they determined which essences in the tea affected hair growth and a medical company was given the task of producing capsules containing the recipe in a concentrated form.

Happy Hairdressers

The word started to spread among beauty salons. They all wanted to try it--even the skeptics tried a 3-month course. After trying Folligro on themselves it was the customer's turn. The jubilation was "hair raising". Men and women who had tried all sorts of cures now experienced hair growing on their bald patches, even those who had been diagnosed as suffering from Alopecia areata (patchy baldness) experienced new hair growth. The same happened to men whose doctors had said that there was nothing that could be done for their receding hairlines and baldness, as hereditary factors were to blame.

The owner of Folligro Worldwide, Burkhard F. K. Marshall, decided to improve the product and looked for ingredients that would even further increase Folligro's performance on male and female hair loss. Recent research has discovered the herbal extract beta-Sitosterol to be one of nature's best inhibitors of DHT (the hormone which blocks circulation to the scalp's hair follicles). This prompted the development of a patented oral delivery system containing beta-Sitosterol, (Biospray) to accompany the herbal extract capsules. Thus, the Folligro Advanced System Kit was born.

Leading Hair Expert looks for remedies ...

One of Finland's leading hair researchers, Annikki Hagros-Korski, has been interested in hair problems since 1970 and has published books on the subject. The reason for her interest on the subject is that she, herself, was the victim of unexplainable hair loss at the age of 17. It was a problem for her for the next 20 years.

"I had to know the whys and wherefores of hair loss. My academic background told me that there must be several reasons for this sad phenomenon. I think the most interesting area concerns hormonal hair loss and my theory is that when testosterone is converted to dihydro-testosterone, water is formed in the hair sacs and prevents the hair from receiving nutrients, leaving the hair dying of starvation."

Clinical test results were impressive for both men & women ...

"New double blind clinical trials began in 2000 because an earlier pilot study had shown radical re-growth of hair on the male and female subject who suffered from receding hairlines and bald spots. The participants were photographed and their bald patches measured. The clinical trials with Folligro products over a 6-month period disproved some of the myths surrounding hair loss. One myth stated that if one had hair loss for more than a couple of years then their hair cannot grow back. The clinical trials showed that Folligro had an effect no matter the length of time of the hair loss."

"Even with the group who suffered from hair loss for 16 to 40 years, the effect was 80%", says Annikki Hagros-Korski. This study, divided by age groups, showed the following results:

20-35 years Effect: 88.2% regained their hair

36-50 years Effect: 86.7% regained their hair

51-70 years Effect. 68.8% regained their hair

Based on these studies and thousands of men and women successfully experiencing re-growth, doctors throughout Europe are attending Folligro's Hair Loss symposiums and recommend Folligro to their patients experiencing thinning hair and balding.

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