{"id":56542,"date":"2018-02-07T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56542"},"modified":"2018-02-07T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:58:40","slug":"a-chemical-found-in-mcdonalds-fries-might-just-cure-your-baldness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/02\/07\/a-chemical-found-in-mcdonalds-fries-might-just-cure-your-baldness\/","title":{"rendered":"A chemical found in McDonald&#8217;s fries might just cure your baldness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Japanese scientists claim that the cure to baldness might just be there in your McDonald&#8217;s fries! They&#8217;ve found that dimethylpolysiloxane, a chemical which is added to oil to cook french fries at the fast-food restaurant, was\u00a0able to mass produce hair follicles in mice.<\/p>\n<p>Initial tests suggest this &#8220;simple&#8221; method could also be used to treat hair loss in humans, the scientists at\u00a0Yokohama National University in Japan claim.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in the journal Biomaterials, the scientists reported they were able to generate on a large scale hair follicle germs (HFG) &#8211; up to 5,000 simultaneously &#8211; which is reportedly &#8220;one of the more challenging obstacles to hair regenerative medicine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When these follicles were subsequently transplanted onto the back and scalp of mice, the researchers confirmed that the mice started to sprout new black hairs in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>Read full news here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/A-chemical-used-to-make-McDonalds-fries-could-help-cure-baldness-Japanese-scientists-say\/articleshow\/62794290.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/A-chemical-used-to-make-McDonalds-fries-could-help-cure-baldness-Japanese-scientists-say\/articleshow\/62794290.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Japanese scientists claim that the cure to baldness might just be there in your McDonald&#8217;s fries! They&#8217;ve found that dimethylpolysiloxane, a chemical which is added to oil to cook french fries at the fast-food restaurant, was\u00a0able to mass produce hair follicles in mice. Initial tests suggest this &#8220;simple&#8221; method could also be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}