{"id":2270,"date":"2025-03-18T15:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/tatsebuds-in-hair-follicles-may-lead-to-new-treatments-for-unwanted-hair\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:53:58","slug":"tatsebuds-in-hair-follicles-may-lead-to-new-treatments-for-unwanted-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/tatsebuds-in-hair-follicles-may-lead-to-new-treatments-for-unwanted-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatsebuds in hair follicles may lead to new treatments for unwanted hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-18 15:53:57<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Tastebuds in hair follicles could lead to a treatment to prevent unwanted hair.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers found the follicles on the scalp have taste receptors called TAS2R4.<BR><br \/>\nThe team said that when a natural, stevia-like sweetener is added to them, it promotes &#8220;apoptosis, where the hair follicles start to die, stopping hair growth in its tracks&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe University of Miami&#8217;s professor Ralf Paus, lead author, said: &#8220;Despite the name, and their historical association with tastebuds, taste receptors crop up in unexpected places.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;These findings identify specific taste receptors in human hair follicles, demonstrate they are active, and that they can be triggered to control hair growth.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Given that, paradoxically, a sweetener can tickle bitter taste receptors so that they send signals which halt hair growth makes one wonder. Is this the bitter-sweet end of unwanted hair?&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nProfessor John McGrath, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Dermatology, added: &#8220;We don&#8217;t know for sure that activating these taste receptors in hair follicles could reduce hair growth in people \u2013 but it&#8217;s the type of research that could one day lead to a new type of hair removal product.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The concept is that activating the receptors alters the way a hair cycles through its growth phases, promoting what is known as &#8216;apoptosis&#8217;, where the hair follicles start to die, stopping hair growth in its tracks.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-18 15:53:57 Tastebuds in hair follicles could lead to a treatment to prevent unwanted hair. Researchers found the follicles on the scalp have taste receptors called TAS2R4. The team said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}