What’s the story on hair loss?
Posted on April 20th, 2009
Hair loss happens naturally to everyone. On average, the ordinary, healthy person loses between 50 and 100 hairs every day. This is the way the head is designed to work. Hairs grow, they rest, they drop out and new hair grows from the roots. In animals, hair loss is seasonal with hair getting thicker when winter comes, followed by shedding in spring. Humans lose and replace hair continuously. As people age, the hair grows thinner each time it regrows and the root system slowly dies back. By the age of fifty, more than half the world’s population has lost the thickness and shine in the hair they had when young. From fifty onwards, the hair will slowly recede. In men, this happens more than in women. Its progress is as unstoppable as the passing of the years. Whether older people find this bearable depends on their attitude to ageing. For those who see every wrinkle as something to be fought, hair loss is a further symptom that has to be hidden. Women wear wigs or hair pieces to hide the loss. Men are forced to more drastic measures such as surgery.
For younger people, hair loss comes as a natural disaster like an earthquake, shaking their self-confidence and making them look different and, possibly, older. This hair loss would be easier to bear if it was the result of a disease. Everyone knows that cancer patients who go through chemo- or radiotherapy lose all their hair. But the usual explanation is genetic. Instead of a heroic struggle against a killer disease, people lose their hair because they inherited the trait. Cruel people, intent on causing pain, suggest that balding people have genetic defects affecting them in other ways and so morale is worn down.
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Why do younger people lose their hair?
Posted on April 20th, 2009
The most common reason in men is androgenic alopecia, sometimes called male pattern baldness because of the characteristic shape of the hair line. But loss also occurs in both sexes because of drug interactions, through physical or emotional trauma, poor nutrition, and other less common reasons. At this point, it is necessary to step outside the bounds of political correctness. In many contexts, it is considered inappropriate or, even, offensive to make distinctions based on race. The general rule is to assume that everyone is equal.
However, in this case, there are significant differences between the races. Japanese men have less loss than caucasian men. Black men are four times more likely than their caucasian counterparts to suffer hair loss. Women of all races also suffer loss in the same proportions but, because of the difference in hormones, it is loss in the volume of hair rather than its physical distribution or patterning. This makes women’s hair more difficult to plat or braid, ponytails hang more limply, and so on. These differences are noted by those who market hair loss products and changes how different brands are sold into their target markets.
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Propecia - the Hair Loss Recovery Drug
Posted on April 12th, 2009
It is not news lots of men lose hair. Fortunately for them, there is a treatment that will definitely improve the situation for the better. This drug is called - Propecia.
Propecia is a prescription medicine that has been licensed for the cure of the problem regarding male pattern baldness. Women and children are not recommended to use it.
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Common Hair Loss Treatments
Posted on March 9th, 2009
If you are a man, it is absolutely accepted that you may acquaintance some beard accident in your lifetime. Abounding men lose beard aback they are in their twenties; some are a little luckier and lose their beard in their backward forties. If you accept noticed that you accept absent your hair, there are a brace of treatments available. Here are some tips.
Hair accident is actual common, about it is actual difficult for abounding men to accord with. Beard accident can affect a person’s looks and cocky esteem. If you are accident your beard there are two capital treatments that accept been accurate effective. They are contemporary treatments and a biologic that works via bolus form.
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Common Hair Loss Causes
Posted on March 3rd, 2009
One of the best annoying aspects of beard accident analysis is the addiction of so abounding bodies to seek solutions after aboriginal free what has acquired their accident in the aboriginal place.
At best, sufferers may decay money on inappropriate ‘wonder cures’ or alike accepted treatments that abominably are not acceptable for their accurate needs. At worst, some bodies may be risking their bloom by self-prescribing able biologic drugs. I don’t accept a botheration with beard accident sufferers extenuative money by purchasing bargain all-encompassing drugs on the internet, but I feel acerb that they should at atomic seek acceptance from their physician that a accustomed biologic matches their alone needs.
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Andropause and Hair Loss
Posted on March 2nd, 2009
Andropause and hair loss often go hand in hand. Imagine clumps of hair falling off your head, or observing strands of once healthy hair collecting in the shower drain. Maybe you run your hand through your hair and feel it thinning. It can feel daunting and quite scary.
Typically, hair loss is a result of an imbalance of male testosterone hormone in the body. Instead of infusing the hair with healthy testosterone, enzymes break it down to a simpler form known as dihydrotestosterone.
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