Although many people think of hair thinning as a male problem, the truth is that an estimated 25 percent of women experience some type of hair growth problems during their lifetimes.
Women dealing with thinning or balding hair often experience diminished confidence in their appearance as well as anxiety as to why the problem […]
While a receding hairline may be easier to deal with and hopefully slow down or even reverse, localized hair loss on the other hand is a lot trickier to deal with, even for men.
Massive localized loss of hair is usually caused by disease or as in the case of a condition known as alopecia […]
Female hair loss is usually much more traumatic than would be the case with men losing hair. For starters, there are many men who have embraced baldness and there are those who now even readily associate it with attractiveness in men.
Charismatic celebrities who are bald have helped promote this view. This includes the likes […]
Male pattern baldness, also called alopecia, is characterized by hair receding from the lateral sides of the forehead, known as a receding hairline; an additional bald patch may develop on top. It’s much easier to prevent the falling out of healthy hairs than to regrow hair in follicles that are already dormant. Baldness is simply […]
The trigger for male pattern baldness, also called androgenic alopecia, is DHT, a powerful sex hormone that can adversely affect the hair and prostate gland too. One large study that was done in Australia showed that the prevalence of mid-frontal hair loss increases as people age and affects 57% of women and 73.5% of men […]
The average human head has about 100,000 hair follicles; each follicle can grow about 20 individual hairs during a person’s lifetime. Statistics show that most men have a 50% chance of experiencing hereditary hair loss by their 50th birthday. The normal cycle of hair growth lasts from two to six years.
Some mycotic infections can cause […]
Hair loss reaches its final state when reaching baldness. I am sure you have seen many bald people on the street or in different places near you. The question now rising is: what causes baldness?
Baldness is also known, in medical terms, as Alopecia. For males, the manifestation of alopecia is characterized by hair falling […]
Baldness is a distressing problem for many men and women. While not every case of premature baldness can be prevented, it is possible for some people to avoid losing their hair. Here are five ways you can potentially prevent hair growth problems:
#1 Know Your Family History
It’s important to understand your […]
Each hair on the scalp grows less than half an inch per month. About 90 percent of the hair on the scalp is growing at any one time while about 10 percent of the hair is in a resting phase; after two to three months, the resting hair falls out and new hair starts to […]
Interesting bit of trivia: the word alopecia is formed from the Greek word meaning fox; the origin comes from the fact that the fox sheds its coat twice a year. The average human head has about 100,000 hair follicles; each follicle can grow about 20 individual hairs during a person’s lifetime. About 90 percent of […]
