What Can
Cause Hair Loss?
Hair loss
can affect anyone. Though it naturally takes place as you age, the
severity of loss varies.
If you are experiencing one right now, my guidelines will help you know
the cause - giving you the necessary information to take the
appropriate action.
You can divide the cause of Hair loss into two categories: Natural and Unnatural.
Natural means your body loses hair on its own - not much you can do.
Unnatural means you have a hand on your hair loss –what you are doing
now with your life causes your hair to fall out –you can do something
about it
UNNATURAL
REASONS
Ask yourself these four questions; find out what aspect of your
lifestyle drives your hair away:
What are you eating? – Is your diet cutting-down on protein? If yes,
then you have hair loss.
Hair comes from protein; if your body lacks protein; your brain tells
your body to stop supplying protein to your hair.
What happens then? Hair stops growing; it falls asleep. It enters a
dormant condition; after sleeping for a long time, and you still lack
protein, hair stops sleeping. It just falls.
Solution - eat
protein rich food - nuts, Soya, milk, chicken and pork.
Are you pulling your hair? If hair-pulling with your sister is your
past time, better stop: your hair’s at stake. Drop scalp-scratching,
too. It is bad for your hair.
If you are the hair-fashionista, too much hair rollers, hair dye,
pigtails, shampoo, and blow-dryers can make you look fabulous at the
cost of hair loss.
Solution -
respect and care for your hair. Its abuse has consequences.
Are you stressed? Your boss’s deadline or your girlfriend’s moods can
cause hair loss. If you are mom, and just have just given birth, the
stress of your pregnancy can cause hair loss too.
Emotional and physical stress imbalance your body’s hormones; hormones
control your hair’s growth more on the effect of hormones later.
Are you sick? Serious illnesses make your hair fall immediately. Other
chronic illnesses like Diabetes and Lupus can cause gradual hair loss.
Sometimes sickness itself does not remove hair –medication does
example: Cancer patients taking chemotherapy hair; yet less serious
medications can also have the same effect.
If you are a mother birth control pills and your body’s hormonal
imbalance during childbirth all combine to make your hair fall. Your
hair comes back to normal after this period.
Solution -
stop medication. Stop hair loss.
NATURAL REASONS
Your body loses hair for 3 natural reasons: Age, Hormones, and Genetics
Age
As you grow older hair loss gradually increases; your body’s ability to
produce hair slows down until finally it stops.
If you are a man, expect to say good bye to your hair earlier than your
wife –women loss hair slower than men.
Hormones
Remember I have told you that your hair comes from protein? Enzymes are
protein. A special kind of Enzyme is produced by your hair’s follicle.
The enzyme’s amount increases as you grow older.
Your body combines your Androgen – hormones unique to men; and your
enzyme producing DHT (dihydrotestosterone). Here’s the weird part -
your hair is allergic to DHT. An increase in DHT means a decrease of
your hair growth.
Here’s the formula: Age + Hormones +
Enzymes = DHT.
Genetics
Two Common kinds of natural hair loss exist that science can hardly
explain: First, is Androgenetic Alopecia (ah-low-pee-shi-ya) or more
commonly known as male pattern baldness. Women have it too; men have it
more starting from age 20 and up.
You get Androgenetic Alopecia
from your dad; it’s hereditary; thus it’s irreversible.
If you have it, you can still grow hair again; you just don’t know when
or how. You lose and gain hair almost randomly.
Second is Alopecia areata –an
autoimmune illness. It means your body’s immune system, the system that
fights diseases, fights your body’s normal processes like hair
production. You can get Alopecia areata from either of your parents.
It’s hereditary too.
You cannot cure this type of hair loss.
But you can still grow hair again - like the first kind of alopecia.
You just don’t know when or how. You lose and gain hair almost
randomly.
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