Chill out, man. A key stress hormone can contribute to skin problems and baldness.
Stress can make people nervous, have ulcers, and even dying young. If that were not enough, new research suggests it may contribute to bad skin and play a role in hair loss. Scientists have found that the main body stress hormone triggers skin cells to multiply the oily lipid and to testosterone -. A key culprit in both baldness and excessive hair growth, depending on where it occurs
During a stressful event- -Say a final exam - the brain releases corticotropin (CRH), a master stress hormone that directs the body to pump adrenaline, tense muscles, or shiver. But researchers do not believe that CRH had an effect on the skin. Researchers have long thought the stress responses of the skin - such as tanning to prevent sunburn -. Was triggered by the immune system, which releases chemicals in the first signs of damage
Dermatologist Christos Zouboulis of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and colleagues examined the effect of CRH on cells cultured from human sebaceous glands. These glands are located at the base of hair all over the body except the palms and soles. They house sebocyte called cells that are lipids, oily compounds that coat and protect the skin at low levels, but cause oily skin and acne in high concentrations.
The team found that Zouboulis sebocytes to CRH and have receptors for the hormone on their surfaces. Sebocyte meet CRH seepage up to 60% fat, the team reports in the May 14 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . HRC also caused the crank 50% cells of more than one enzyme which makes testosterone, which has been linked to both the male pattern baldness and hirsutism.
Call of labor "a big step forward" in understanding the skin stress response, biologist Andrzej Slominski skin of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, said that the production of the hormone stress of testosterone and oil in sebocytes could lead to new topical treatments for a variety of skin and hair disorders. Until then, the stress management courses are highly recommended.
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