Hair Loss: Can Pea Sprout Extract Help?

When hair loss increases, it's easy to look for quick answers. But not all active ingredients are equally beneficial, nor are all formulas equally well thought out. At Modesta Cassinello, we prefer to work differently: choosing ingredients that truly fit into a serious hair strategy, with discernment and a reasonable basis behind them.

Such is the case with AnaGain™, a pea sprout extract rich in interesting bioactive compounds, which we have incorporated into the Hair Boost food supplement as one of its differentiating active ingredients. Not because it sounds good on a label, but because it provides an interesting line of work within internal hair care.

Not all hair loss is the same

Not all hair loss responds to the same cause. There can be diffuse hair loss associated with stress, hormonal changes, postpartum, seasonality, or nutritional deficiencies, but also more complex situations that require a medical or dermatological evaluation.

Therefore, when we talk about a hair supplement, it is reasonable not to present it as a universal solution, but as a support within contexts where a well-formulated product can make sense.

What is AnaGain™?

AnaGain™ Nu is a water-soluble extract obtained from pea sprouts (Pisum sativum). It has been developed to work on signals related to the hair cycle that act in the dermal papilla, located at the base of the hair follicle and involved in the initiation of a new growth phase.

What makes it interesting?

What we find particularly interesting about AnaGain™ is that it is not only presented as a "nutritive" active ingredient, but as an ingredient with a more concrete functional logic within the hair cycle. Simply put, it could support the follicle's dynamic by promoting entry into a new anagen phase and contributing to shortening the telogen phase.

What data is behind it?

Here is another reason why we find it an interesting active ingredient: its clinical study.

An oral pilot study was conducted on 21 volunteers with mild to moderate hair loss, defined as a loss of at least 100 hairs per day. They took 100 mg of AnaGain™ Nu daily for 56 days. According to the reported results, average hair loss decreased by 33.9% after 28 days and by 37.1% after 56 days. Additionally, 86% of participants reported noticing a reduction in hair loss.

What you should know about AnaGain™

• It is a pea sprout extract.
• The orally studied dose was 100 mg per day, the same dose included in our Hair Boost hair food supplement
• In the pilot study, average hair loss decreased from the first month.
• It should not be considered a single or universal solution.

What does this mean in practice?

This positions AnaGain™ as a particularly interesting active ingredient within formulas aimed at increased hair loss and hair vitality. The available data points in a positive direction and supports its value within a well-formulated product, although, as with many innovative ingredients, it will continue to be valuable to have broader and longer-term studies that allow for further consolidation of the available evidence.

Why did we include it in Hair Boost?

In Hair Boost, we didn't want a formula built on megadoses or ingredients chosen simply because they sound good. We wanted a better-thought-out combination, and AnaGain™ fits that philosophy because it provides a distinct line of work within the supplement.

Hair Boost was not built on ingredients added out of inertia or category expectation, as often happens with biotin, whose widespread use in hair supplements coexists with reasonable doubts about its necessity in the general population and the known possibility of interference in certain analytical tests.

AnaGain™ also provides an element that is particularly relevant to us: the amount incorporated in Hair Boost matches that used in the ingredient's oral pilot study.

That is what makes it a real differentiator within Hair Boost: not an empty claim, but an ingredient chosen with discernment.

What can realistically be expected?

When hair loss increases, it's not serious to promise miracles or immediate changes. It's reasonable to think about continuity and formulas that support hair from different angles.

In this context, AnaGain™ seems to us a valuable active ingredient because it provides biological plausibility, a specific dose, and preliminary results in humans. Not as a unique solution, but as part of a better-formulated product to accompany stages where hair needs more support.

Conclusion

Hair loss is complex, and precisely for this reason we are wary of overly simplistic messages. But when an active ingredient offers clear logic and reasonable preliminary evidence, it deserves attention.

That is the place AnaGain™ occupies in Hair Boost: that of a differential, standardized active ingredient, chosen with discernment to help with hair loss through a more serious and better-thought-out formulation.

Each article is backed by the expertise of Dr. Modesta, pharmacist and founder, committed to excellence in hair care.