Undesrtanding Hair Loss

Many of us experience a hair loss during our time and yet have no idea what causes them.  In turn, we all try all sort of products without any results; more often than not, all those products even worsen the situation of our hair condition.  We have to understand the delicate nature of hair follicles and the precision of the hair cycle in order to remedy the hair condition.  Trial and error will not help and will do more damage to majority of hair follicles.

Human being goes through a process called regeneration.  Every living cell in our body gets worn and gets replaced at a certain time interval.  So does our hair.  At normal condition, hair falls will not cause any thinning and will not change the density at all.  As a matter of fact, every human being is allowed to have 100 pieces of hair loss daily and still considered a normal amount.  Why?  Because there are approximately 390 thousands other follicles are on the anagen (growing) phase covering the head.

However, when follicles are attracting DHT hormone to attach, the anagen phase will be affected badly and causes each hair shaft to prematurely shed.  This condition is called Androgenetic Alopecia syndrome.  Androgenetic Alopecia syndrome occurs to more than 75% of the men population worldwide and almost 30% of the women population.  In men, Androgenetic Alopecia occurs when the body needs to get rid off the excess Testosterone and yet the secretion process unable to complete the process and make the DHT circulates int he system.  Women do not produce Testosterone hormone, yet their body may have the retention ability to it.  This acquired Testosterone also needs to be secreted via the normal secretion method.  30% of women population is unable to process the secretion naturally and thus the DHT circulates in the system ruining the normal hair cycle.

How to determine whether it is an Androgenetic Alopecia ?

Androgenetic Alopecia is, actually, the easiest form of alopecia to pinpoint.  If you are a man or a woman above 18 years of age and experience the following symptoms, you are 100% positive of having an Androgenetic Alopecia syndrome,

• Increase of hair loss and notably on the thinner hair (vellus hair)
• Increase of sebum on scalp, oily scalp and hair
• Gradual thinning on some part  of scalp, usually occurs on hairline, widows peak, crown and vertex
• Decrease in hair volume, hair gets thinner and the color becomes lighter than normal
• Decrease in hair density, scalp begins showing under the sun and/or bright light

If you experience those symptoms, you have to act quickly before the DHT gets more sporadic and starts affecting the healthy follicles.  If you do not embark upon the right remedy, DHT level will escalate rapidly due to the cohesion between proteins and subsequently affects more follicles.