By Michael D. Phillips
Many women and men suffer from hair loss and consider hair transplant cost as a way to remedy their balding and thinning hair. More than ever before, baldness has become extremely prevalent as all the baby boomers begin to age. Though once thought to be an old man's problem, baldness and hair thinning is now being seen in young men and women as early as their 20s.
Simply put the most common reasons for baldness and thinning of hair is poor nutrition from eating unhealthy diets and stress. While it might seem easier to have a simple hair transplant cost can be a huge factor in making you take a more natural approach to reversing your symptoms and begin hair restoration and rejuvenation by other more natural methods.
Because stress is so prevalent in our society today, it plays such a major role in throwing off the hormone levels of both men and women. Once the levels of hormones become imbalanced, both men and women produce an excessive amount of testosterone.
This extra testosterone then binds with another hormone called 5-alpha reductase. The combination of these two hormones then forms dihydrotestosterone, also known as DHT. Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) then becomes bound to the hair follicles and the roots at the base of the hair strand, forcing the follicle to stop producing hair.
While stress is one of the major factors of producing DHT, so is eating an unbalanced and unhealthy diet. By changing your eating habits to a more healthy diet you can effectively rebalance your hormone levels and diminish the production of DHT. This will automatically stop the binding of that hormone to your hair follicles and hair restoration should automatically begin.
The time is of the essence when starting a natural treatment of reducing stress and changing your diet to eliminate hair loss. Because the longer you wait after discovering you are losing your hair, the hair follicle may become dormant permanently, never to produce a strand of hair in that follicle again. Waiting too long to reverse hair loss may leave you with no other option except a hair transplant, no matter what the cost.
Determining a specific path to restore your hair should not just solely rely on hair transplant costs. Finding ways of balancing your hormones through all-natural herbal supplements, anti-hair loss shampoos and over-the-counter medicated hair rejuvenation systems, such as Rogaine, should be your first line of defense. Only after you have exhausted all the options of a natural and medicated way of rejuvenating your hair loss, should you consider hair transplant costs.
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Causes Of Hair Loss In Women
By Michael Russell Platinum Quality Author
Men find it very difficult to come to terms with their falling hair but we can easily imagine how much more difficult it would be for a woman to come to terms with hair loss.
Yet, women also suffer from hair loss, though the hair fall patterns are different from those of men. But it is a fact that women do suffer from hair loss. We will examine here the causes of hair loss in women and its possible treatments.
One of the most common forms of hair loss in women is a general thinning of hair all around the scalp. This condition, which may arise as a reaction to some medicines or due to extreme stress on the body, is called telogen effluvian. This condition arises quite suddenly and there is a general shedding of hair. Generally it gets better on its own, but for some women, it may become a chronic problem.
The hair loss due to telogen effluvian is due to the disturbance of growth cycles of hair. The hair growth passes through two stages - the growth phase and the resting phase. The telogen elluvian arises due to the prolongation of the resting phase. Due to extreme stress or prolonged illness, a large number of hairs may remain in the resting phase. When new hairs start growing they push out the old hair and one witnesses a falling of hair. However, new hairs grow back in three or four months' time and again there will be a thickening of hair. So this is not a permanent disorder and almost everyone witnesses this phenomenon some time or the other in his or her lifetime.
Another kind of condition relating to hair loss in women is called androgenetic alopecia. This is seen in those women who are genetically pre-disposed to the falling of hair. This is the most common cause of hair fall in men - around 50 percent of the men are prone to hair fall due to this reason alone. Not many women are pre-disposed to hair fall due to this reason, but the ratio increases with age. Around 40% women are affected by androgenetic alopecia over the age of 40. It is also seen that this condition increases in women after the menopause.
Hair loss due to androgenetic alopecia is in fact related to hormonal levels in the body and affects people with high levels of dihydrotestosterone, or DHT as it is more commonly known. DHT causes hair follicles to make gradually thinning hair, which ultimately stops growing altogether. Here too, the pattern of falling hair is different in men and women. In men, the hair loss results in a receding hairline and balding of crown, while in women, there is an all round thinning of hair.
Another cause of falling hair in women is caused by a condition known as alopecia areata. Here white blood cells start attacking hair follicles, which then start getting smaller and smaller. After a few months of the onset of this condition, the hairs stop growing completely. This condition often cures itself and one may witness growing back of hair after some time.
Possible treatments of hair loss include a drug called minoxidil, which comes in the form of a lotion which is applied to the scalp.
This is not a permanent cure and one has to keep on applying it to sustain its results.
Another possible treatment, though somewhat costly, is surgery, which one can resort to if everything else fails. Though this is an option to be considered, one should think over it carefully as this technique is far from perfected at this time.
Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Hair Loss
Men find it very difficult to come to terms with their falling hair but we can easily imagine how much more difficult it would be for a woman to come to terms with hair loss.
Yet, women also suffer from hair loss, though the hair fall patterns are different from those of men. But it is a fact that women do suffer from hair loss. We will examine here the causes of hair loss in women and its possible treatments.
One of the most common forms of hair loss in women is a general thinning of hair all around the scalp. This condition, which may arise as a reaction to some medicines or due to extreme stress on the body, is called telogen effluvian. This condition arises quite suddenly and there is a general shedding of hair. Generally it gets better on its own, but for some women, it may become a chronic problem.
The hair loss due to telogen effluvian is due to the disturbance of growth cycles of hair. The hair growth passes through two stages - the growth phase and the resting phase. The telogen elluvian arises due to the prolongation of the resting phase. Due to extreme stress or prolonged illness, a large number of hairs may remain in the resting phase. When new hairs start growing they push out the old hair and one witnesses a falling of hair. However, new hairs grow back in three or four months' time and again there will be a thickening of hair. So this is not a permanent disorder and almost everyone witnesses this phenomenon some time or the other in his or her lifetime.
Another kind of condition relating to hair loss in women is called androgenetic alopecia. This is seen in those women who are genetically pre-disposed to the falling of hair. This is the most common cause of hair fall in men - around 50 percent of the men are prone to hair fall due to this reason alone. Not many women are pre-disposed to hair fall due to this reason, but the ratio increases with age. Around 40% women are affected by androgenetic alopecia over the age of 40. It is also seen that this condition increases in women after the menopause.
Hair loss due to androgenetic alopecia is in fact related to hormonal levels in the body and affects people with high levels of dihydrotestosterone, or DHT as it is more commonly known. DHT causes hair follicles to make gradually thinning hair, which ultimately stops growing altogether. Here too, the pattern of falling hair is different in men and women. In men, the hair loss results in a receding hairline and balding of crown, while in women, there is an all round thinning of hair.
Another cause of falling hair in women is caused by a condition known as alopecia areata. Here white blood cells start attacking hair follicles, which then start getting smaller and smaller. After a few months of the onset of this condition, the hairs stop growing completely. This condition often cures itself and one may witness growing back of hair after some time.
Possible treatments of hair loss include a drug called minoxidil, which comes in the form of a lotion which is applied to the scalp.
This is not a permanent cure and one has to keep on applying it to sustain its results.
Another possible treatment, though somewhat costly, is surgery, which one can resort to if everything else fails. Though this is an option to be considered, one should think over it carefully as this technique is far from perfected at this time.
Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Hair Loss
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