Female Hair Loss Explained

 

 

Hair loss in men is obviously very common and also very accepted, however thinning hair in women is also a very major issue. And of course for women their hair is a very important part of how they present themselves to the world, so if it starts to go it can leave the sufferer feeling very embarrassed by it all. Lets have a look at the subject in a bit more detail:-

Another name for female hair loss is androgenetic alopecia, and it is more common than you may have previously thought with approximate numbers being about 1 in 4 women suffering from thinning hair.If you learn a little more about your hair cycle then you will start to have a better idea to answer your question are you actually going bald?

 

 

The hair grows in cycles and it works out that at ninety percent of the hair is growing and ten percent is in the resting phase at any one time, during the resting phase it is perfectly normal for you to shed hair. There is one thing you can do to determine if you are losing more hair than is necessary and that is the tug test where you grab about twenty strands of hair between thumb and forefinger and pull them slowly but firmly. If you pull out six or more then you may be suffering from hair loss.

Why do women lose hair? There are a lot of reasons why women can lose their hair. Some are obvious like general poor health, bad diet or stress – but by far and away the biggest factor is likely to be hormonal.The reason behind this is hair loss is usually caused by a hormone called DHT. DHT is made when there is too much testosterone, now women do have testosterone in their bodies, and it is normally controlled by estrogen, but when estrogen is low, say because of menopause or a women having to go through a hysterectomy, then this can allow the testosterone to become DHT and result in hairloss. This hormonal imbalance can also happen just after pregnancy too.

So can anything be done to prevent it? Well there are options out there such as prescription drugs and hair transplants, but more and more people are wanting to look at natural and effective remedies to help control their hair loss and I cover these and more on the site that is all about how to prevent hair loss.

 

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