HAIR LOSS DUE TO DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE SENSITIVE HAIR FOLLICLES

Hair loss is a very common problem for all of us. If a person has developed hair loss at a young age, it makes them feel and look old. Surprisingly, when an elderly person has nice thick hair, this makes them look younger specially when they colour their hair.

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Androgenetic alopecia is the most common cause of hair loss in men and women. This is a genetic type of hair loss, meaning if you notice you parent, uncles or grandparents loosing hair, then it’s most likely you’ll going to loose your hair too.

Generally, hair loss starts by age 30 onwards. Obvious signs are rising number of hair strands on your pillow every morning and more than usual hair tangled up on your comb or brush. Hair loss can be gradual or sudden. Sadly, the occurrence of this genetic condition can also start on young teenagers.

It’s believed that Dihydrotestosterone or DHT is the main cause of hair loss. So it is assumed that the higher the levels of DHT, the more hair loss occurs. Well this is not the case, medical practitioners noticed that there are patients with high levels of DHT but don’t show any signs of hair loss, while other patients with low DHT levels suffer from hair loss.

Because of this, doctors concluded that the amount of DHT doesn’t cause hair fall but it is sensitivity of the hair follicles themselves to DHT. When you hair follicles are genetically sensitive to DHT, then hair loss is inevitable.

DHT starts to influence the male body in puberty. This hormone is responsible for triggering the secondary traits of men. Deepening of the voice, muscles become more prominent, protrution or growth of the Adam’s apple and of course the growth of androgenic hair, are is all influence by DHT. But sadly, as androgenic or body hair grows, head hair starts to deteriorate.

This hair follicle deterioration progresses slowly, but there are fast cases where obvious signs of hair loss occur a few years after puberty.

Since, hair follicles start to get exposed to DHT from puberty and onwards, it is advisable to use a hair loss treatment starting from puberty as well. The key is to prevent DHT from affecting the hair follicles. Of course, there are a lot of hair loss products in the market but the majority of them are chemical based and can cause mild to serious side effects from an itchy scalp to loss of sexual drive.

To get rid of any kind of unwanted side effects, it is best to use a hair loss treatment that contain all natural ingredients. There are a number of natural hair loss products that contain a special extract from the saw palmetto tree. This extract is used to naturally stop the effects of DHT on the scalp. When topically applied to the scalp regurally, DHT never get the chance to harm the hair follicles and since this is simply made from plant extracts, this is easily metabolized by the body. The longer it is used the better without causing any side effects.