COMMON HAIR LOSS CAUSES IN WOMEN
Posted by Manny Y on 7th Apr 2015
For many years, people all over the world have been dealing with hair loss.Whetheryou’re a man or a woman, young or old, this unwanted condition will take away your confidence in an instant, especially if you neglect your hair.You might notknow it but there are a lot of causes of hair loss like stress, certain health conditions, medications, too much dieting and many more. But of all the causes, androgenetic alopecia or male/female pattern hair loss is the most common.Androgenetic alopecia is a hereditary type of hair loss, it is passes on through generations with families with this hair loss gene. The start of hair fall usually starts by 30 years of age, but there some instancesthat it starts earlier depending on the gene.
In men, it usually starts with a receding hair line, that slowly progress upward to the crown and back. Generally, what is left is just a rim of hair along the temples to the back of the head. In worst cases, total baldness can occur.In women,
there isn’t any receding hair line but a slow progression of generalized hair thinning. What use to be dense thick hair, slowly becomes sparse and thin, until the scalp and crown could literally be seen. Fortunately, total baldness is rarein women.Androgenetic alopecia occurs
due to agenetic sensitivity of the scalp hair follicles to a hormone called dihydrotestosterone or DHT. This is actually a male hormone, DHT come from testosterone when acted upon by 5 alpha reductase, an enzyme. What is so amazing about this is that, this hormonal transformation from testosterone to DHT occurs on the hair follicles, and this is actually killing the follicles on the head. Body hair follicles are unaffected, actually, DHT stimulates body hair growth.
These days, there are different varieties of hair loss treatmentproducts available on the market. Some focus on increasing the blood circulation to the scalp. Others stop or inhibit the production of DHT. One product, feed the hair with nutrients and vitamins by directly apply it to the scalp.Treating Male/female pattern hair loss is a lifelong commitment because for whatever reason the treatment is stopped, it is expected to experience hair loss again.