Causes of Hair Loss
What Are The Causes of hair loss?
The causes of hair loss - alopecia, in both men and women can be due to can be many and varied. These include the envioronment as in harsh weather, ultra violet light, chemicals, illness or physical trauma to the hair or scalp.
Quite often hairloss can be the result of changes in hormone levels, caused by aging, stress, pregnancy or breastfeeding. The major hormone that causes hair loss is a testosterone and this is why men tend to be more prone to shiny pate syndrome than women. It can affect men in their twenties which needless to say can be very distressing and embarrassing for a young man to endure. Men with receding hairlines are constantly on the lookout new hair regrowth formulas, amost always with dissapointing results, till they discover something that works.
Hormone levels are to some degree genetically pre-determined, so the chance of you suffering from early hair loss will be greatly increased if you have parents or grandparents sufferring baldness particularly if they were on your mothers side of the family. Nonetheless, even with a genetic link the pattern of hair loss as well as age of onset can be difficult to predict and varies a lot between individuals.
Some other causes of hair loss to think about are excessive shampooing and blow-drying or the overuse of hair dyes and perming or straightening solutions. Especially over a period of time, it can cause both hair loss and poor growth, so for those who are more susceptible to hereditary hair loss care should be taken to negate the likelyhood that it is not worsened by the misuse of hair products.
