How male hormones cause female hair loss

Hormone changes are a major cause of hair loss in women.

Most women would have guessed that to be the case. But would you have guessed that changes in your testosterone levels are a key cause of hair loss in women?

Specialists divide the causes of hair loss in women into traumatic or stress related hair loss and non traumatic – which includes just about everything else.

The most accepted cause of non traumatic hair loss in women is an androgen called DHT or dihydrotestosterone. Read more

How stress can make your hair fall out

The causes of hair loss in women are varied but one of the most common causes is stress.

Generally speaking the causes of hair loss in women are classified as either traumatic or non traumatic.

Traumatic causes are quite easy to understand – stress of a kind sufficiently severe to cause a major reaction in the body resulting in sudden hair loss.

Traumatic hair loss can be physical or mental and can make your hair fall out prematurely months after the stress is experienced. Read more

Why losing your hair feels like your worst nightmare

You may not appreciate it but hair loss is essential for healthy hair. And what’s more it happens to every one of us every day of our lives.

Most of us don’t realize that hair loss is essential for hair growth. Every hair on your head will at some point fall out and be replaced.

You may not have appreciated that you have around 100,000 hair follicles at birth and the same number right throughout your life. Most of us will lose around 100 hairs a day as part of a natural hair growth cycle. Read more

Keep your hair on – watch how you diet

Few people realize that hair loss in women can be a direct result of dieting.

The problem, of course, is not the fact that you go on a diet but the kind of diet you go on. Many weight loss diets are deficient in essential nutrients needed for thick, glossy and healthy hair.

Although diet related hair loss is often the result of iron deficiency, a range of other nutrient deficiencies can result in thinning hair when you try to lose weight. Read more