Red Light Therapy and PRP: A Hair Restoration Powerhouse

Men aren’t alone when it comes to balding. Although they may start losing hair earlier, half of all men and women have noticeable balding or thinning by age 50.

No matter your age or gender, hair loss affects your appearance and often impacts your self-esteem and mental well-being.

That’s why you owe it to yourself to learn about the safe, natural hair loss treatments available from Jaime Dodge, MD, and the skilled team at Aletheia Integrative.

We offer red light therapy and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatments that restore healthy hair growth without powerful medications or transplants.

Type of hair loss treated with red light therapy and PRP

You can lose hair for many reasons, including physical and emotional stress, fungal infections, autoimmune diseases, and hormonal imbalances.

However, the most common cause of hair loss in men and women — and the condition we treat with red light therapy and PRP — is androgenetic alopecia.

Androgenetic alopecia (male-pattern and female-pattern baldness) is an inherited condition that makes hair follicles overly sensitive to hormones. As a result, hair follicles on your scalp shrink, growing thinner for a while before they stop growing hair entirely.

Male-pattern baldness results in a receding hairline and hair loss from the top of the scalp. Female-pattern hair loss causes widespread thinning over the entire scalp.

Red light therapy boosts cellular activity

Red light therapy, often called low-level light therapy (LLLT), uses specific wavelengths that safely travel through your skin and reach cells below the surface.

This type of therapy doesn’t work through heat (like other light treatments). Instead, the red light stimulates cellular activities after it’s absorbed by specialized receptors on each cell.

Red light therapy is well-known for boosting energy production inside cells, a good first step toward restoring hair growth. But its benefits don’t stop there.

When red light reaches the hair follicles, it stimulates new hair growth and promotes a longer growth cycle. Your therapy may also improve the follicle’s health and protect it from inflammation and damage caused by toxic metabolic waste.

PRP promotes healthy hair growth

PRP contains concentrated platelets obtained from a sample of your blood. We can inject PRP into balding areas or create tiny wounds (microneedling) that allow the PRP to reach hair follicles below the surface.

The injected platelets release growth factors that activate numerous cellular activities. Your PRP treatment slows or prevents ongoing hair loss and promotes hair growth by healing the follicle, regulating inflammation, and triggering new blood vessel growth.

When needed, growth factors also recruit stem cells to the area. Stem cells regenerate any new tissues necessary to repair old, degenerated, or damaged tissues affecting hair growth.

The power of combining red light therapy and PRP

When red light therapy or PRP affects the hair follicle in a way the other doesn’t, they enhance one another. For example, red light therapy increases cellular energy, which multiplies the healing activity of PRP.

If both treatments deliver similar benefits, such as reducing inflammation and improving the hair follicle’s health, they supplement each other and magnify your results.

Get hair loss treatment from an experienced team

Our team helps men and women regain healthy, beautiful hair by specializing in cutting-edge red light therapy and Aletheia cell therapy, which includes PRP.

Call Aletheia Integrative today or schedule an appointment online to learn how these powerhouse treatments can restore your hair.