Chips from McDonald's should help against hair loss

Ingredient of McDonald's Pommes could prevent hair loss

Actually, it is always advised not to eat too much French fries, as fried and fried potatoes can damage your health and make you fat. For people with light hair, frits may be beneficial. Because according to a recent study, a specific ingredient that McDonald's fast food chain uses for fries could help with hair loss.

French fries against hair loss

That hair fall out, is quite normal. According to experts, humans lose up to 100 hair every day. If these do not grow again, it is called permanent hair loss. Circular hair loss (alopecia areata) is one of the most common forms. Men are affected more frequently than women. For those affected it is usually difficult or impossible to stop the hair loss. Scientists are constantly looking for new therapies to help with hair loss. Researchers from Japan have now discovered that a particular substance used to prepare French fries could help with hair loss.

Researchers have found that a substance McDonald's used for fries could also help with hair loss. (Image: pamela_d_mcadams / fotolia.com)

Additive in McDonald's fries

French fries are not only considered unhealthy because they are fried, but also because of the various food additives.

However, not all of them are dangerous. For example, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), an additive in McDonald's frits, is considered harmless in small amounts.

PDMS is one of the foaming inhibitors, the substance prevents the foaming of boiling oil.

And he could possibly also prevent hair loss, as Japanese researchers have found out.

Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth

In a study with mice, scientists from Yokohama National University (Japan) have shown that polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) prevents hair loss and even stimulates hair growth.

As the researchers around Professor Junji Fukuda report in the journal "Biomaterials", no one had ever succeeded in producing the hair follicle stem cells necessary for hair growth in sufficient quantities.

But the experts from Yokohama managed this, they first produced 5,000 of these stem cells.

The researchers said in a release published on the Science Daily portal that black hair grew on both the back and scalp of the rodents.

The regenerated hair thus showed the typical hair cycle of mouse hair.

"This simple method is very robust and promising. We hope this technique will improve the treatment of human hair loss, such as androgenetic alopecia, "said Professor Fukuda.

According to the scientist, "preliminary data" already suggests that its use in humans could help. (Ad)