Receding hairlines is basically one of the most stressful moments that an adult would be dealing with but the more you’re stressed about it, it worsens. Practically because stress plays a great role in graying of hair or hair loss. For that reason alone, there is no doubt that stress management would be subject to a lot of studies in the past years. “Stress is really inevitable especially when your job calls for it,” says Patric Marx, an entrepreneur in early 30′s who’s affiliated to boats for sale in Philippines. He’s always travelling to meet his clients and usually sleep late to finish all his paper works and his friends noticed his receding hair line lately.

These hair loss effect has been managed by separated studies which resulted to numerous hair restoration remedies which includes but are not limited to hair oils, scalp nourishment creams, medications such as minoxidil and a lot more. However, these things, up to this time, showed less effectiveness.

Earlier this year, a group of researchers from UCLA and the Veterans Administration has been studying stress and it’s effects on the gastrointestinal activity accidentally found a certain chemical compound that induces hair growth by blocking a stress-related hormone associated with hair loss.

CRF a.k.a corticotrophin-releasing factor is a stress hormone found in the human skin along with its receptors and other peptides controlling the receptors that anytime would be triggered as humans experience stress. The researchers then genetically modified some mice to overly produce this hormones. As it age, they lose hair and eventually become bald on their backs.

The researchers also developed another peptide that could block the activity of CRF called astressin-B. The genetically modified mice where then injected with astressin-B to observe how its CRF-blocking ability affected gastrointestinal tract function, which is really the first aim of the study. A single shot didn’t show any effects so they continued the process up to the 5th day and left the specimen for 3 months together with the genetically unaltered mice.

As to their astonishment, they could no longer distinguish which ones were injected with astressin-B because all of them look exactly alike. In short, the bald mice have regrown their hair.

“When we analyzed the identification number of the mice that had grown hair we found that, indeed, the astressin-B peptide was responsible for the remarkable hair growth in the bald mice,” says Million Mulugeta, one of the researchers.

“This is a comparatively long time, considering that mice’s life span is less than two years,” Mulugeta added.

It showed remarkable effects on mice and it may also do the same to humans. Some of the bald mice were also treated with minoxidil and showed minimal effects as it does to human beings.