Hairloss... A Tragedy for Men and Women
Men and Women can suffer from hairloss.
Most people haven't any idea what actually goes on beneath their hair, unless they have been shaving their head already.
For something that is played with, obsessed over, colored, cut, and twisted into shapes, hair is amazingly dead. Yes, the hair you think looks so colorful and alive is basically not alive in any way.
I don't say that you must ignore or mistreat your hair. For something that's dead, hair is sort of capable of replying to good treatment or bad.
Look at the endless shelves of hair products in your local supermarket and prime time TV advertising to backup the fact that people spend a fortune on hair, afraid that one day they might be bald.
Hair is technically part of your skin, although like fingernails and toenails, it grows and separates from your skin.
The average head contains around 110,000 follicles, and your complete body is home to around five and a half million hair follicles. Almost all of the complex activity that keeps your hair growing goes on under the surface.
The active growth segment of a follicle, called the Anagenphase, averages around three years. At any given time, about 92 % of your hair is in the Anagen phase, and the other 11 % is taking a rest in the Telogenphase, which is the resting phase, and disappears from your head, thus resulting in hairloss.
Hair grows about 15 mm a month ( although it actually seems like more when you need a haircut ) and grows to a length of approx a metre before growth stops and the hair falls out.
When you are going bald, you can feel isolated, as if you are the sole one to lose their hair. Everytime you look at the TV, it seems like each commercial features hair blowing gently in the breeze as bronzed kids run chill out on the beach.
You may not have the tan or the body, but those are at obtainable with desire and determination, while lost hair seems to be just that - getting old and lost youth forever.
You're not alone, though; Alopecia affects over 51 million folks in the U. S. alone, and lest you believe only men have alopecia issues, over 22 million of sufferers are ladies.
So it's a safe bet that thousands of people are thinking a similar way that you are, " Oh my God, I'm going bald
On average people lose about 100 hairs per day, that's from their head, not the rest of their body. The causes vary from person to person, most common being;
Genetics, if your Mum or Dad were bald then over 90% of men fall into this category. Luckily for women, only 50% lose their hair if it's in their genes.
Also, with men the patterns of hairloss are different to those of women. Men nearly always keep a band of hair around the sides of the head, whilst women tend to have a thinning of their hair all over the head, but very rarely do they have completely bald areas.
Turbans, braiding or anything that pulls at your hair can, over a period of time, cause hairloss.
Everyday stress of the modern way of living can cause your body to malfunction and in turn make your hair fall out.
Drugs and medicines. Certain ways of building and toning your body can have a detrimental effect on your hair.
Anabolic steroids, birth control pills, anti depressants and tranquilisers can be some of the main causes for hairloss.
Most people haven't any idea what actually goes on beneath their hair, unless they have been shaving their head already.
For something that is played with, obsessed over, colored, cut, and twisted into shapes, hair is amazingly dead. Yes, the hair you think looks so colorful and alive is basically not alive in any way.
I don't say that you must ignore or mistreat your hair. For something that's dead, hair is sort of capable of replying to good treatment or bad.
Look at the endless shelves of hair products in your local supermarket and prime time TV advertising to backup the fact that people spend a fortune on hair, afraid that one day they might be bald.
Hair is technically part of your skin, although like fingernails and toenails, it grows and separates from your skin.
The average head contains around 110,000 follicles, and your complete body is home to around five and a half million hair follicles. Almost all of the complex activity that keeps your hair growing goes on under the surface.
The active growth segment of a follicle, called the Anagenphase, averages around three years. At any given time, about 92 % of your hair is in the Anagen phase, and the other 11 % is taking a rest in the Telogenphase, which is the resting phase, and disappears from your head, thus resulting in hairloss.
Hair grows about 15 mm a month ( although it actually seems like more when you need a haircut ) and grows to a length of approx a metre before growth stops and the hair falls out.
When you are going bald, you can feel isolated, as if you are the sole one to lose their hair. Everytime you look at the TV, it seems like each commercial features hair blowing gently in the breeze as bronzed kids run chill out on the beach.
You may not have the tan or the body, but those are at obtainable with desire and determination, while lost hair seems to be just that - getting old and lost youth forever.
You're not alone, though; Alopecia affects over 51 million folks in the U. S. alone, and lest you believe only men have alopecia issues, over 22 million of sufferers are ladies.
So it's a safe bet that thousands of people are thinking a similar way that you are, " Oh my God, I'm going bald
On average people lose about 100 hairs per day, that's from their head, not the rest of their body. The causes vary from person to person, most common being;
Genetics, if your Mum or Dad were bald then over 90% of men fall into this category. Luckily for women, only 50% lose their hair if it's in their genes.
Also, with men the patterns of hairloss are different to those of women. Men nearly always keep a band of hair around the sides of the head, whilst women tend to have a thinning of their hair all over the head, but very rarely do they have completely bald areas.
Turbans, braiding or anything that pulls at your hair can, over a period of time, cause hairloss.
Everyday stress of the modern way of living can cause your body to malfunction and in turn make your hair fall out.
Drugs and medicines. Certain ways of building and toning your body can have a detrimental effect on your hair.
Anabolic steroids, birth control pills, anti depressants and tranquilisers can be some of the main causes for hairloss.