Hair Loss

Hair loss baldness or thinning hair cause are common concerns for both men and women.  Most men and women experience some form of hair loss baldness or thinning hair during their life. 

Hair loss affects approximately 35 million men and 21 million women in the United States alone.  Understanding fact from fiction regarding hair loss & treatments is our goal.

• Understanding your hair loss

• Hair loss cause

• Most common hair loss conditions

• Emotional effects of hair loss bald thinning hair growth

• Medical & non medical solutions to hair loss

• Hair transplant a surgical hair loss solution

Male hair loss, male pattern baldness or androgenic alopecia, is an hereditary condition which causes male baldness or significant male hair loss in about 66 percent of all men.  An estimated 35 million men and 21 million women in the United States alone have male pattern hair loss.  It can start as early as the teen years.  Hair loss risk increases with age.

Most men experience at least some degree of hair loss in their lifetime, with  the numbers increasing continuously with age. By their late 20’s, approximately 12% of men experience some hair loss. Research shows that 40% of men showing noticeable hair loss by age of 35 and more than 50 percent of men over age 50 have some degree of hair loss.  By the time a man is in his 50s, he has a greater than 50% chance showing some genetic baldness.

More than 30 million women in the United States suffer hair loss thinning hair or baldness in some form.  One in five women suffer from female hair loss.  Women's hair loss make up forty percent of total hair loss sufferers in America. The 1999 survey by AC Nielsen in Singapore showed that hair loss affects 23 percent of men and 21 percent of women. 

As we age. men or women, our genetics signal the hair follicle to produce an enzyme named 5 alpha reductase. When the testosterone present in the follicle combines with the enzyme 5 alpha reductase, it produces dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Hair follicle receptors are sensitive to DHT and thereby start the process of male or female pattern hair loss.

Some men and women start losing hair by showing thinning hair all around the scalp, while others develop a slight hair loss as a bald spot at a specific area.  Some individuals have complete hair loss or total baldness within a short time.   

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