Problem Hair Loss

Often, we associate hair loss with age. In fact, this usually isn’t the case at all. Very old people can still have full heads of hair. There are many causes of hair loss, but aging is actually the least common cause of hair loss. It is important that you never associate your own hair loss to aging, as there may be a medical cause, and often, when the cause is determined, you may be able to do something to restore hair growth.

First, we have hereditary baldness or pattern baldness, which is technically called androgenetic alopecia. Pattern baldness can occur in females and males, and the cause of the hair loss is that the length of time in the hair growing process is shortened, resulting in hair that is thinner and weaker, allowing the hair to fall out more easily. This hereditary baldness can be inherited from either side of your family, and the age that your ancestor started losing their hair would be about the age that you would start losing yours as well.

Cicatricial Alopecia is caused by scarring of the hair follicle. This is permanent hair loss, and while some health conditions are known to damage hair follicles in this manner, we know little about all causes of this type of hair loss.

Alopecia Areata is more common than most people realize, and the amount of hair loss will vary from case to case. It is caused by certain health conditions, such as thyroid disease, and alopecia areata is considered to be an autoimmune disease. The good thing about this type of hair loss is that the hair typically grows back on its own, but most people will experience periods of hair loss, followed by periods of hair re-growth throughout their lives.

The condition known as traction alopecia is caused by constant stress and tension on the hair such as that caused by styling the hair or from certain hairstyles. In most cases, the hair will grow back, however if the constant stress continues, the hair follicles can become damaged, which will result in an inability to re-grow the hair.

There are other causes of hair loss as well, such as poor nutrition, using certain medications, specific diseases, other medical treatments, changes in hormones, the use of various hair treatments, or infections. It is important to find out the exact cause of your hair loss before you begin trying to treat the problem.

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Male hair loss is often thought to be caused by wearing a hat too much or stress. Then there are always the rumours that if your mothers father was bald watch out you probably will be too. There is one proven cause behind premature thinning hair in men, and surprisingly it’s something that occurs naturally.

DHT is a substance found in all mens bodies. It is created from the male hormone testosterone. Our bodies synthesize DHT form testosterone on a regular basis, the catch is some of us make a little too much.

DHT the Cause of Premature Hair Loss

DHT makes its way to the scalp where it binds with hair follicles. Not all hair follicles on your scalp are affected at once so it is possble to catch this process early and reverse it.DHT slowly shrinks the size of a hair follicle it’s attached to, this also shrinks the size of the hairs that can grow from those follicles as well. What eventually happens is these hair follicles become dormant an can no longer grow new hair.

Stopping DHT

It isn’t all bad news, DHT doesn’t mean you go bald. There are several hair loss supplements  topical treatments designed to reduce the amount of DHT that is produced, or block it from attaching to the hair follicles. Treatments taken orally usually reduce the amount of DHT being produced while topical treatments such as shampoos stop DHT from acting on the scalp.

In order to maximize the chance of seeing results from any hair loss product you must use it consistently. Men who don’t seem to get results from any hair loss treatment generally do not follow the suggested instructions for the product.

Getting Started

For those of you who might be a little shy about buying a hair loss product there are a lot of products available or order online. In fact the hair loss shampoo of choice comes from a company called Nisim can be ordered direct from their website with volume discounts available if you order more then one bottle.

Other manufacturers also sell direct to the consumer and there are also larger skin care and beauty websites such as Sephora and Amazon that also sell hair loss treatments. The key is you must take action. The longer you wait to treat your thinning hair the larger the risk you have of not being able to fully regrow the hair you’ve lost.