Thin­ning hair ends: What causes them and how to pre­vent them

“Trim your ends every two weeks and con­di­tion only your ends when show­er­ing”, this is every hair­styl­ists’ advice regard­ing split/thinning ends. But before you start trim­ming or treat­ing your thin­ning hair, have you won­dered what is caus­ing the ends of your hair to thin. This is impor­tant! This infor­ma­tion will help you pre­vent run­ning into the same prob­lems down the line.  Women expe­ri­ence hair loss and thin­ning hair pri­mar­ily due to hor­monal, menopausal and genetic rea­sons.  The main con­trib­u­tors to thin­ning hair and ends are phys­i­cal and chem­i­cal sources of dam­age. Please don’t be sur­prised as some thin­ning episodes can occur to per­fectly healthy and well cared heads of hair. Hair thin­ning near the ends is nor­mal in very long hair. A slight thin­ning in the hair ends occurs dur­ing the nor­mal hair growth process. The hair near­est the ends is the old­est hair on the head, and the longer the hair is the older it is! The ends of this hair are usu­ally older than three years.

Thin­ning hair ends can be cause by many factors:

Styling

Always con­trol your comb as it makes its way down the hair shaft. This is crit­i­cal for reduc­ing break­age dur­ing detan­gling and styling. Avoid comb­ing your hair form root to ends with­out grasp­ing the hair along the way. Using the hand to sup­port along the hair shaft as you make your­self through reduces unneeded tension.

Heat Use

Heat has to be one of the main cul­prits of self induced hair thin­ning. The lack of inter­nal mois­ture causes break­age and results in a thin­ner look to the hair. Heat also dena­tures the hair’s inter­nal pro­tein struc­ture and dam­ages the cuti­cles lay­ers of the hair. Try a low heat reg­i­men to pre­vent, no direct heat more than twice a month.

Over Pro­cess­ing from Chem­i­cal Relaxers

When a relaxer touch-up is done and the relaxer is rinse out of the hair, the active creme passes over pre­vi­ously relaxed ends and starts to work on them. This is very harm­ful and hap­pens when the ends are not pro­tected dur­ing the relax­ing process. Each time this occurs, the cuti­cle becomes more and more degraded. Pro­tect your ends by using an oil or con­di­tioner and apply­ing it to your ends before start­ing the relax­ing process.

Improper Neu­tral­iz­ing of Relaxer

When the relaxer is improp­erly neu­tral­ized your hair can become thin­ner over­time. The relaxer chem­i­cals con­tinue to process the hair strand long after the relaxer is rinsed away, result­ing in thin­ner, mois­ture and pro­tein defi­cient hair strands. Break­age can also result from this; you must always make sure your hair is prop­erly rinsed!

Remem­ber it is vital that you keep your hair hydrated, con­di­tioned and well trimmed. This along with stay­ing informed about the causes of thin­ning hair ends will keep your hair end look­ing healthy and beautiful!

HairDX is a genetic test that will aid the doc­tor in deter­min­ing your hair loss pat­tern before it occurs aid­ing in deter­min­ing what is the best course to fol­low in the treat­ment that will have the high­est like­li­hood of suc­cess in hair loss pre­ven­tion.

The X and Y-chromosomes deter­mine your gen­der, while andro­gens are the hor­mones that deter­mine sec­ondary sex char­ac­ter­is­tics, which help dis­tin­guish the appear­ance of men from women.  By per­form­ing this test and see­ing the pat­tern in your fam­ily his­tory as well as in your geneal­ogy the doc­tor will be able to pre­dict your pre­dis­po­si­tion for hair loss or hair thin­ning.  In most cases by the time hair loss or thin­ning starts to get notice­able as much as 50% of the hair loss could have already occurred.

Is there a way to pre­dict hair loss or thin­ning before this takes place  Absolutely!  HairDX will pre­dict hair loss before vis­i­ble signs start to make them­selves vis­i­ble, edu­cated deci­sions can then be made to pre­serve the exist­ing hair, tak­ing in con­sid­er­a­tion that FDA approved treat­ments are best at pre­serv­ing exist­ing hair rather that re-growing of new hair.

For female hair loss, HairDX genetic test­ing will deter­mine the CAG repeat score for women to deter­mine the like­li­hood of female pat­ter bald­ness, a lower CAG score (Lud­wig grade II or III hair loss) means a higher risk for sig­nif­i­cant hair loss while a higher score meant the oppo­site.  Research has show that only 2.3% of women with a CAG test score bel­low 15 didn’t develop female pat­tern hair loss.  Stud­ies have also showed that 50% of women over the age 60 will expe­ri­ence some form of female pat­tern bald­ness.

Just like any other type of med­ical con­di­tion, for males as well as females, early detec­tion will most def­i­nitely give you a plethora of choices when it comes to hav­ing full and healthy hair.

The HairDX Genetic Test for Andro­ge­netic Alope­cia (AGA), the most com­mon form of hair loss in men and women is avail­able with Dr. John Kahen at Bev­erly Hills Hair Restora­tion.  If you would like to learn more about the HairDX Genetic Test and receive a com­pli­men­tary con­sul­ta­tion click here!

Hair Trans­plant Methods

Hair restora­tion tech­nol­ogy is con­tin­u­ously pro­vid­ing patients with bet­ter options for hair loss treat­ments. Trans­plants have come a long way since the 70’s and 80’s, when hair plugs were used to treat hair loss. These hair plugs con­sisted of grafts with about 15 to 25 hairs in each. These plugs gave the hair trans­plant a very unnat­ural and obvi­ous look.

Goals of a Hair Trans­plant

There are many goals that a Hair trans­plant pro­ce­dure can achieve, the most impor­tant goals are:

A nat­ural look­ing hair trans­plant that is unde­tectable as pos­si­ble.
That the high­est per­cent of the trans­planted hair sur­vive and grow.
That today’s hair trans­plant will appear as accept­able over time.
That the trans­plant will be con­ser­v­a­tive while being performed.

Strip Inci­sions were tra­di­tion­ally used to trans­plant hair before more mod­ern meth­ods existed. The strip inci­sion involves sur­gi­cally remov­ing strips of skin from the donor area, extract­ing the hair fol­li­cles, and then implant­ing them on the recip­i­ent area. While some sur­geons are prac­tic­ing more mod­ern tech­niques in hair trans­plan­ta­tion, this method of surgery is still effec­tive and quite common.

The strip inci­sion method has now been improved upon by micro graft­ing. Sur­geons are switch­ing to this method because it doesn’t involve mak­ing any type of inci­sion (scalpel-free). Hair fol­li­cles are extracted from the donor area using the micro graft­ing pro­ce­dure and trans­planted into the recip­i­ent area with ease.

The Strip Exci­sion Procedure

1. The sur­geon and the patient col­lab­o­rate on a hair­line design.
2. The donor area is pre­pared for the inci­sion by trim­ming a nar­row piece of hair.
3. The top and the back of the scalp are given a local anes­thetic.
4. The sur­geon uses a sharp blade to remove strips of hair-bearing skin from the donor area.
5. The hair trans­plant sur­geon stitches the donor area back together.
6. The excised skin is dis­sected into indi­vid­ual hair fol­li­cles.
7. The sur­geon inserts the hair fol­li­cles into the scalp using one of the fol­low­ing tech­niques: the punch method, the slit method,   and the laser method.

Dr. Kahen’s Technique

It is now pos­si­ble to have an aes­thet­i­cally natural-looking hair­line. Patients are ask­ing for the Fol­lic­u­lar Unit Graft­ing tech­nique. The increase in this new method of hair restora­tion has sparked and entire gen­er­a­tion of bald­ing men and some women to have a nat­ural appear­ing hair trans­plant. Patient also wants a nat­ural hair­line that is some­what irreg­u­lar. Today’s fol­lic­u­lar hair trans­plants tend to be denser that in the past. Aided by pow­er­ful micro­scopes and bet­ter sur­gi­cal instru­men­ta­tion, Dr. Kahen is able to cre­ate remark­ably nat­ural results for patients. The best hair restora­tion sur­geon also pos­sess the skills needed to design the micro-elements of the hair­line, at the trans­plant recip­i­ent site level. This is where size of the site, angu­la­tions, ori­en­ta­tion and spac­ing all come into play. These sur­gi­cal and aes­thetic skills ulti­mately deter­mine how the hair will grow into out­stand­ing, newly re-created hairlines.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the cost of hair trans­plant or any ques­tions and or con­cerns, please con­tact Dr. John Kahen, M.D.

The most com­mon type of hair loss in women occurs in a dif­fuse pat­tern. Dif­fuse hair loss is most often hered­i­tary.  It can also be caused by under­ly­ing med­ical con­di­tions, med­ica­tions, and other fac­tors.  Com­mon or “hered­i­tary” bald­ness in women, also called female pat­tern alope­cia, is genetic and can come either the mother or father’s side of the fam­ily. It is caused by the actions of two enzymes; aro­matase (which is found pre­dom­i­nantly in women) and 5-a reduc­tase (which is found in both women and men).

Med­ical con­di­tions that can cause dif­fuse hair loss in women:

• Obstet­ric and gyne­co­logic con­di­tions such as post­par­tum and post-menopausal states or ovar­ian tumors
• Ane­mia — iron deficiency
• Thy­roid disease
• Nutri­tional — crash diets, bulimia, protein/calorie defi­ciency, essen­tial fatty acid or zinc defi­ciency, mal­ab­sorb­tion, hyper­vi­t­a­minosis A
• Stress — sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures, gen­eral anes­the­sia, and severe emo­tional problems
• Con­nec­tive tis­sue dis­eases such as Lupus

A rel­a­tively large num­ber of drugs can cause “tel­o­gen efflu­vium,” a con­di­tion where hair is shifted into a rest­ing stage and then sev­eral months later shed. For­tu­nately, this shed­ding is reversible if the med­ica­tion is stopped, but the reac­tion can be con­fused with genetic female hair loss if not prop­erly diag­nosed. Chemother­apy causes a dif­fuse type of hair loss called “ana­gen efflu­vium” that can be very exten­sive, but often reversible when the med­ica­tion is stopped.

Drugs that can cause dif­fuse hair loss in women:

1. Blood thin­ners (anti-coagulants), such as war­farin and heparin
2. Seizure med­ica­tion, most com­monly dilantin
3. Med­ica­tion for gout, colchicines and alop­uri­nol (Xyloprim)
4. Blood pres­sure med­ica­tion, par­tic­u­larly the b-blockers (such as Inderal) or diuretics
5. Anti-inflammatory drugs such as prednisone
6. Med­ica­tions that lower cho­les­terol and other lipids
7. Mood alter­ing drugs — lithium, tri-cyclics, Elavil, Prozac
8. Chemother­apy
9. Thy­roid medications
10. Oral con­tra­cep­tive agents, par­tic­u­larly those high in progestin’s
11. Misc. — Diet pills, high doses of Vit­a­min A, street drugs (cocaine)

Local­ized Hair Loss

Although there are a host of der­ma­to­logic con­di­tions that cause hair loss, they pro­duce a pat­tern that is dif­fer­ent from the dif­fuse pat­tern of genetic hair loss com­monly seen in women and are eas­ily dif­fer­en­ti­ated from it by a dermatologist.

Local­ized hair loss in women may be sub-divided into scar­ring and non-scarring types. Alope­cia Areata is a genetic, autoim­mune dis­ease that typ­i­fies the non-scarring type. It man­i­fests with the sud­den onset of dis­crete round patches of hair loss asso­ci­ated with nor­mal skin. It can be treated with local injec­tions of steroids.

Scar­ring Alope­cia can be caused by a vari­ety of med­ical or der­ma­to­logic con­di­tions such as Lupus, Lichen Planus, or local radi­a­tion ther­apy. Hair loss from injuries, or from local med­ical prob­lems that have been cured, are usu­ally amenable to hair trans­plan­ta­tion. Radio­ther­apy can cause both scar­ring and non-scarring local­ized hair loss and it also can be treated with sur­gi­cal hair restora­tion if the area is not too large.

Local­ized female hair loss that occurs around the hair­line after face-lift surgery may be per­ma­nent. Trac­tion Alope­cia, the hair loss that occurs with con­stant tug­ging on the fol­li­cles, can also be per­ma­nent if the habit per­sists for a long period of time. Both of these con­di­tions can be treated with hair trans­plan­ta­tion.

Pat­terned Hair Loss

Women with this type of hair loss have a pat­tern sim­i­lar to what we observe in men. In other words, they have thin­ning in front or on top of their scalp with preser­va­tion of the hair in the per­ma­nent zone around the back and sides of the scalp. Thus, the bald­ing is in a char­ac­ter­is­tic “pat­tern” rather than gen­er­al­ized. Women with pat­terned hair loss and a sta­ble donor area may be excel­lent can­di­dates for sur­gi­cal hair restoration.

A sim­ple per­sonal call or email can start your road to recov­ery, so what are you wait­ing for All con­sul­ta­tions are com­pli­men­tary and free of charge. Dr. Kahen will per­son­ally answer all your questions.

John Kahen, M.D., the founder and med­ical direc­tor of Bev­erly Hills Hair Restora­tion, is one of the lead­ing hair trans­plant sur­geons to offer nat­ural results using inno­v­a­tive tech­niques in hair trans­plant surgery. After meet­ing with patients, Dr. Kahen focuses on their indi­vid­ual needs and helps each one to achieve his or her spe­cific goals. His treat­ment plans are cus­tomized and include both sur­gi­cal and non-surgical options.

About Hair Loss

Hair plays a very impor­tant role in any individual’s appear­ance. One only needs to see a per­son with dif­fer­ent hair­styles to under­stand the role hair plays in decid­ing the over­all appear­ance of a per­son. Since a lot of your con­fi­dence comes from the way you look, a reced­ing hair­line or a bald­ing head can suck con­fi­dence out of you and can thereby wreak havoc in your social and per­sonal life.

There is always a rea­son behind hair loss and it is very impor­tant to detect the cause before going for any kind of hair treat­ment. While, gen­er­ally, hair loss is caused due to genetic fac­tors, it can also be caused from stress, pol­lu­tion and an unhealthy lifestyle.

Since hair is so vital in main­tain­ing one’s lev­els of con­fi­dence, peo­ple expe­ri­enc­ing hair loss are always on the look­out for dif­fer­ent types of treat­ment to get their pre­cious hair back. Hair replace­ment ser­vice (or hair trans­plan­ta­tion) is one treat­ment that has always been very pop­u­lar with peo­ple with hair loss problems.

About Hair Replace­ment Service

In hair replace­ment treat­ments hair fol­li­cles from the area of your head that is genet­i­cally resis­tant to going bald (called the donor area), gen­er­ally the back of your head, are used for hair trans­plan­ta­tion. There­fore, it is imper­a­tive that you have some good qual­ity hair on your head if you wish to go for the hair replace­ment ser­vice. This is usu­ally not a prob­lem as male pat­tern bald­ness will cause hair loss on the top and front of the scalp predominantly.

The Hair Replace­ment Treatment

The mod­ern hair replace­ment surgery is done using local anes­the­sia and so the patient hardly feels any pain. The whole sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure may involve more than one ses­sion, the exact num­ber of ses­sions depend­ing on the extent of hair loss and the patient’s require­ments. There are gen­er­ally no side effects after the treat­ment and even if there are any, they are not very seri­ous and sub­side in a cou­ple of days. There may be some red­ness such as from a pin prick at the dona­tion sites.

Before going for the treat­ment, one must care­fully research about the clin­ics offer­ing hair replace­ment treat­ment that you are inter­ested in. You should get the treat­ment done only from a good clinic (and by an expe­ri­enced sur­geon) even if it is cost­lier than other clin­ics, because the cheaper clin­ics will prob­a­bly use old meth­ods of replace­ment that might prove dis­as­trous and may leave you regret­ting your deci­sion for the rest of your life.

The first visit to the clinic is very impor­tant because in the first visit, the doc­tor gets to under­stand your par­tic­u­lar hair loss prob­lem in detail, which in turn helps him or her to decide the course of your treat­ment. The doc­tor may advise you to take antibi­otics before the treat­ment and might also sug­gest some other pre-treatment pre­cau­tions. In addi­tion, you must clear all your doubts regard­ing the treat­ment in the very first visit and should also ask the doc­tor in detail about the exact pro­ce­dure of the surgery.

Recov­ery From Hair Replace­ment Surgery

If done with mod­ern equip­ment by an expe­ri­enced pro­fes­sional, no ban­dage is gen­er­ally required after the replace­ment surgery and one can even go back to one’s rou­tine the same day. The trans­planted hair grows slowly and one must not expect imme­di­ate dras­tic results after the surgery. In fact, the full results of the hair replace­ment ser­vice might even take a year to show. There­fore, the patient should actu­ally be patient in order to see the proper results.

The treat­ment can give you an approx­i­ma­tion of your prior hair den­sity and gen­er­ally it does not show even on a close exam­i­na­tion of the hair, some­thing that has made this treat­ment very pop­u­lar. Another advan­tage of this ser­vice is that the trans­planted hair requires no spe­cial main­te­nance or care. Though hair replace­ment surgery is not very cheap, it is worth the req­ui­site invest­ment con­sid­er­ing the fact that it can bring about a huge pos­i­tive change in your life.

Hair loss is some­thing that affects mil­lions of Amer­i­cans. It is a prob­lem that many find to be embar­rass­ing and want to find a solu­tion to. No one likes to lose their hair, but it is a real­ity most have to face. There are solu­tions that can help end male hair loss, and this arti­cle will list 3 solutions.

35 mil­lion men in the US are affected by hair loss. A major­ity of these men are look­ing for a way to get their thick head of hair back in a few months. The solu­tions listed below will help with your hair growth, and when com­bined together it is guaranteed!

1. DHT, a hor­mone that is man­u­fac­tured in the blood­stream through excess testos­terone, is the lead­ing cause of male bald­ness. The first solu­tion is to block DHT. DHT is a prob­lem because it is a hor­mone that clings to your hair fol­li­cles and kills them.

It starts out by just thin­ning out your hair, but even­tu­ally all your hair fol­li­cles will dis­ap­pear. To stop the source of thin­ning hair and com­plete hair loss you need to block DHT. This is the most impor­tant solu­tion to stop­ping your hair loss.

2. Some­thing that many peo­ple under­es­ti­mate is the power of a healthy and respon­si­ble diet. Hav­ing a proper diet can change your mood, energy lev­els, weight, skin, and of course hair. In order to help deal with your hair loss you need to be drink­ing half your body weight in ounces of water each day.

Also, you should be eat­ing at least 70% of your diet in fruits and veg­eta­bles and elim­i­nate unhealthy foods. This will help you elim­i­nate hair loss and begin fix­ing the prob­lem all together.

3. Finally, you need to look into hair restora­tion, as it is the only per­ma­nent solu­tion to obtain a full head of hair you once had. Yes, there are var­i­ous pre­ventable meth­ods but, indi­vid­u­als whom are genet­i­cally sus­cep­ti­ble to bald­ing will find that those meth­ods alone are not suf­fi­cient. In order to stop the cause of hair loss, and regrow hair you need to com­bine a DHT blocker with a hair trans­plant.

Hair loss is some­thing that affects mil­lions of peo­ple in the US and many of them are embar­rassed by it. For­tu­nately, with the advance tech­niques of hair replace­ment, it is pos­si­ble to stop hair loss and start hair growth.

Men and women who lose their hair, are either expe­ri­enc­ing hair thin­ning, com­plete bald­ing, or in most cases suf­fer­ing from a genetic con­di­tion known as andro­ge­netic alope­cia. This is pre­pon­der­ance for los­ing one’s hair on cer­tain areas of the scalp that is passed from one gen­er­a­tion to the next. It used to be believed that the bald­ing prob­lem was only passed down through the mother’s genes but that is no longer true. Now we know that this form of hair loss, or alope­cia, is not deter­mined by one par­ent or the other.

Andro­ge­netic alope­cia, also known as pat­tern bald­ness or pat­tern hair loss, is caused by a sit­u­a­tion that actu­ally stops the hair fol­li­cles from pro­duc­ing hair shaft mate­r­ial. The fol­li­cle can be thought of as the hair fac­to­ries in one’s body. The fol­li­cle is con­nected to the blood sup­ply which pro­vides it with oxy­gen and nutri­ents which are essen­tial for the man­u­fac­tur­ing of hair. When pat­tern bald­ness is active a hor­monal metabo­lite known as DHT is pro­duced in the body and even­tu­ally makes its way to hair fol­li­cle. The DHT bonds to the hair fol­li­cles and causes a dis­rup­tion in the pro­duc­tion of hair mate­r­ial. Nor­mally a hair fol­li­cle will pro­duce hair in a cycli­cal man­ner. It goes through growth and rest stages that can last sev­eral months. The DHT short­ens the growth phase of the fol­li­cle to the point that it can no longer pro­duce a healthy hair shaft and the shaft falls out. If not treated quickly, the pat­tern bald­ness will ren­der the fol­li­cle com­pletely ineffective.

The best hair restora­tion sys­tem involves deal­ing with the affect of DHT and also trans­plant­ing new hair fol­li­cles into the balded area. There are two hair loss treat­ment drugs that have been approved by the US FDA and have proved effec­tive at slow­ing down the loss of hair but they will not do much to re-energize the fol­li­cles that have stopped pro­duc­ing so these hair fol­li­cles must be replaced. Of the two drugs only one, Minox­i­dil, is approved for both men and females. This is a top­i­cal solu­tion that is applied to the scalp and helps to allow the hair fol­li­cles to con­tinue to pro­duce as needed. The sec­ond drug, Finas­teride, is only pre­scribed for men as it can cause birth defects. This drug actu­ally works to limit the amount of DHT that is pro­duced in the body. Hair restora­tion doc­tors will usu­ally use one or both of these drugs to keep what hair there is still grow­ing along with hair implan­ta­tion to pro­vide replace­ment hair fol­li­cles for the bald­ing that has already occurred.

The part of the sys­tem that causes the high­est hair restora­tion costs is the implan­ta­tions. Thus if a per­son can start the treat­ments early to save what hair they still have the hair restora­tion price will be much lower. As is usu­ally the case, the sooner a prob­lem is addressed the cheaper it is to deal with.  Apply­ing the cor­rect hair replace­ment sys­tems can get you the head of hair you deserve. Start today to deter­mine your path to a full head of hair.

If you’re start­ing to get wor­ried because you think you’re los­ing your hair or just won­der­ing if the amount you’re los­ing is nat­ural, take a small hand­ful of hair in your hand and tug it as hard as you can. If you have more than six strands of hair in your hand then you are los­ing hair. A nat­ural loss would be less than six strands of hair a day. The “how to tell if you are los­ing your hair” test is the best way to make the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion between nor­mal shed­ding and per­me­ate hair loss.

Hair loss is a big con­cern for many men, women and chil­dren. There are many causes. You may know that you have rapid hair loss already or even a lit­tle loss and won­der what is caus­ing it. Maybe you already have a patch of hair loss. You may not be sure so here’s a good way to tell if it’s abnor­mal or not.

What do you do about it

First of all try to deter­mine if it’s related to any cur­rent med­ical diag­no­sis you have right now. Then take a look at any med­ica­tions you may be tak­ing in case it’s tem­po­rary and related to med­ica­tions, med­i­cines or drugs.

If you’re a man then male pat­tern bald­ness could be a pos­si­bil­ity espe­cially if you notice a reced­ing hair line. Symp­toms could be related to preg­nancy if you’re preg­nant. It could be a thy­roid issue. If you are los­ing in big chunks it could be alope­cia areata. There are many causes for hair loss.

In any case you’ll want to learn how to stop or pre­vent it. There are many ways to learn through blogs, forums and dis­cus­sion groups. How­ever one must be care­ful there because there is a lot of mis­in­for­ma­tion and guess­ing going on. It’s always bet­ter to get med­ical advice from experts in the field, espe­cially if pro­gres­sion is a mat­ter of concern.

Genetic fac­tors may pre­dis­pose males to hair loss, this is con­di­tion is often referred to as male pat­tern bald­ness. Male pat­tern bald­ness is more sus­cep­ti­ble in males who have high lev­els of DHT (dihy­drotestos­terone) a gene that is found to be the cul­prit of bald­ing. Pre­vent­ing hair loss should be a mat­ter of con­cern for those who are more sus­cep­ti­ble to hair loss and begin­ning to expe­ri­ence male pat­tern bald­ness. Obtain­ing knowl­edge and a clear under­stand­ing of the envi­ron­men­tal and genetic fac­tors that go into crest­ing this con­di­tion is imper­a­tive oth­er­wise, if not addressed, can lead to baldness.

Alope­cia is what doc­tors and other med­ical experts call hair loss that has been caused by genet­ics. In just about every case, this alope­cia is andro­genic in nature, mean­ing that there are hor­mones within the body that inter­act with hair fol­li­cles of the scalp. In some males, these fol­li­cles become sen­si­tive to DHT (dihydrotestosterone).

There is also sev­eral other genetic or envi­ron­men­tal fac­tors that go into mak­ing up the con­di­tion that cre­ates andro­genic alope­cia, and although it is referred to as “male pat­tern bald­ness” women are just as sus­cep­ti­ble. One such envi­ron­men­tal fac­tor has been iden­ti­fied that relates the kinds and qual­ity of aer­o­bic exer­cise to the bald­ness though the link is still some­what unproven.

At any rate, many men and women are con­fronted with grad­ual loss of the hair on top of their heads and quite often become alarmed by it. There are ways, through, to help pre­vent such loss these days. New prod­ucts– mostly nat­ural in nature — have come into the mar­ket that show great promise in help­ing men and women to keep what they already have on their head and maybe even add a lit­tle bit more to it.

Most of these new prod­ucts are com­posed mainly of vit­a­mins, herbs and min­er­als into sup­ple­ments that are taken orally and some­time are com­bined with a top­i­cal appli­ca­tion. Those who sus­pect or fear that they will become vic­tims of alope­cia can begin tak­ing these vit­a­mins and herbs as soon as they begin to expe­ri­ence hair loss. They do not have to accept exces­sive or per­ma­nent hair loss, espe­cially with all of the pre­ventable prod­ucts on the mar­ket today.