Groh Line of Organic Hair-Care to Launch in Salons

Sometimes, the most innovative products are simply accidental side effects of scientists trying to do something else. Such is the case with Groh, a new organic antiaging hair- and skin-care line created by renowned immunologist Marvin Hausman. Hausman — who in addition to being a board-certified surgeon and immunologist is also chief executive officer and chairman of Entia Biosciences Inc., Groh’s parent company — was actually researching autoimmune disorders and neurogenetic diseases when he realized that a significant percentage of medical research deals solely with treating symptoms. He set out to change that by researching what causes cells to age and die, shifting his focus from developing drugs for companies such as Bristol-Myers International, Mead Johnson Pharmaceutical Co., and E.R. Squibb to studying medical foods and the science of nutrigenomics, the ability to affect genes through nutrition. “We were never told about nutrition in medical school,” said Hausman, who graduated from New York University’s School of Medicine in 1967, with a laugh. “I think it maybe appeared once in my biochemistry textbook.” The Hippocratic Oath’s directive — “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” — inspired Hausman. At the top of his list: ergothioneine, an antioxidant which he

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