Hair today Gone Tommorrow

Balding is not something anyone would look forward to. Even though we are unable to stop aging we can help ourselves when it comes to hair loss.

Our hair does get thinner as we age and more for some than others but with today's medications and creams etc we may be able to slow this down.

I have looked into many hair loss remedies and have found some that are better than others in how they say the can slow down hair loss and some even say they will help your existing hair grow more and stronger. I do not know about that but have heard of some of the good some of them do.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Women's Health Alert - What To Do With Hair Loss

By Will Schlepinger


In at least 50% of cases, the cause of hair loss in women is due to androgenic alopecia, or female pattern baldness.

What Does Female Hair Loss Mean in Simple Terms?

Female hair loss is a genetic condition inherited from either parent. Women who experience female hair loss have hair follicles that have a proclivity for genetic subterfuge, and these makes them quite prone to the effects of the testosterone byproduct dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which would result in the hair follicle replacing normal texture hair with colorless hair that is both thinner and shorter. Over time, these diminutive hair follicles would die after they have atrophied, and what is once the illusion of a thinning scalp actually becomes a thinning scalp due to balding, or what is generally termed as permanent hair loss. There is no peach-fuzz hair in balding areas, and the scalp appears tight and shiny.

Baldness is an unalterable condition. There is simply no way to replace a hair follicle that atrophied. In a sense, this is comparable to losing any other part of the human body, and of course we are not like worms who can grow themselves back independently even if cut into two and thus cannot reproduce our body parts; the same applies to hair follicles, which cannot be replaced by means of any female hair loss product.

What Causes Female Pattern Hair Loss?

Women are no different than men in the sense that the gene for balding can be inherited from mother or father. Testosterone is produced in women in two body parts - the ovaries and the adrenal glands. It is impossible though for testosterone, once converted to DHT, to cause hair loss in women, because women are able to protect themselves with estrogen and progesterone. So long as the female body is able to produce sufficient amounts of these hormones, they can effectively reduce the production of DHT and prevent DHT from assimilating itself with the woman's hair follicles. Any condition, no matter how infinitesimal in impact, as long as it leads to a decrease in estrogen and progesterone production and/or a surge in DHT production, can cause a woman's hair to thin if she is preternaturally inclined towards baldness through her genetics. Most of the time, hair loss in women starts as a side effect of menopause, although it can start any time following puberty. A paucity in the production of female hormones occurs during menopause, which would lead to a less robust defense against thinning hair, and a greater possibility of female hair loss.

If hair loss occurs in pre-menopausal women, this might be an after-effect of hormonal imbalance; as such, anybody suffering from such a condition must seek treatment from their trusted health care professional and the appropriate medication.

However, there is an easier way to stop the process of balding for post-menopausal women, and this would usually be through a regimen of hormone replacement therapy. There may be times, though, when hormonal replacement therapy would not be a medical professional's best advice, but Rogaine 2% is a viable alternative to such. Rogaine is able to rejuvenate hair follicles and facilitate their regrowth, but has no effect whatsoever on hair follicle atrophy which starts from the female body's overproduction of DHT.




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