A new hair loss invention that looks like a astronauts helmet which can apparently regrow and stop hair loss is now on sale in the UK. Using electromagnetic waves as well as essential scalp oils, its maker claims it will prevent hair falling out and stimulate weak hair follicles. The makers of the helmet say that in clinical trials 80% of people who used it saw some sort of improvement in hair thickness or a slow down in the shedding rate of the hair.

The helmet costs £750 and has been selling well in the EU and has just been brought to the UK by a property developer called Antony Hancock who bought one of the devices in France and immediately started to use it on himself. After 3 months of regular use of the machine codenamed BX3.4, he says his hair became thicker and he says that the device is not just designed for men but for women too who want to boost the thickness and health of their hair.

The device has received the OK from the Institute for Industrial and Medical Research in France and was also given the Golden Award for Technological Innovation from a magazine called Top Sante. The BX3.4 lab scientist says that on a normal scalp the hair cells in the hair follicles need to be charged by the human body's natural electricity which is set at about 70 millivolts and that men with hair loss tend to have a lower charge of say only 50 millivolts and thus the cells weakened and at the lower dose of 30 millivolts the hair cells will die and the hair will fall out.

The reason why the device works is that the BX3.4 can actually boost the electrical charge to the correct and higher level using a very low intensity electromagnetic impulse which regenerates the cells and prevents them from dying. The correct way to use the device is to wear the hair loss helmet three times a week for 30 mins over a 6-8 month period. After this time it is possible to reduce the sessions to just once weekly.

Not all medical experts are convinced however by this new invention and ukmedix doctors say that the device needs to be tested properly in independent testing and with regulated conditions to be shown to be truly effective. Just getting people who say that it has hair restoration benefits is not medically acceptable.

In the UK only Propecia (finasteride) and Minoxidil are actually licenced and properly tested by the relevant medical authorities for hair loss. This does not mean that nothing else works but only that the manufacturers of these drugs have put the products through a rigorous testing procedure to establish proven effectiveness.