There are several causes of hair loss, but the main causes of hair loss are health, stress, and hormones.
Health
Health is one factor in hair loss. Damaged blood vessel linings can inhibit your hair growth. This is because these blood vessel linings normaly produce endothelium-derived relaxing factor (E.D.R.F.) or nitric oxide (N.O.). Studies also show that there is a clear relationship between people with heart disease experienceing hair loss. Also, diabetics have a higher chance of experiencing hair loss.
Stress
Stress can also cause your hair to fall out. Typically the hair loss happens 3 months after you’ve gone through the stressful period. Then you will need another 3 months after you start losing hair for your hair growth to begin again ( if the stress has been diffused ). Your bodies built in healing process considers your emotional problem so important, that it ignores your hair putting it into a resting phase. This resting phase is known as Telogen Effluvium. Stress can also trigger genetic hair loss. It’s important to keep your stress at low level.
Hormones
Finally, male hormones called dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is known to be the most common cause for male pattern hair loss. DHT is produced from testosterone which is produced by the enzyme 5-apha reductase. Your DHT hormones can be balanced which medication, these medications will resurrect your hair follicles bringing them out of their resting phase and your hair will begin to grow again. The most popular hair loss medication is Propecia. An inbalance of DHT triggers and autoimmune response in pattern loss, which initiates an attack on your hair follices. Gradually your hair follices will become inflammed putting your hair in a resting phase which causes hair to only fall out not grow.
Fifty percent of the people in the U.S. suffer from hair loss. There are many treatments out there, some will correct the inbalance of DHT in your body to allow you to grow your own hair again, some simply need patience or counseling, and of course you can turn to expensive hair transplant surgery. It’s important to understand the three factors that cause hair loss and your odds of preventing hair loss will increase.
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