What Causes Hair Loss in Women?

Women have always been quite conscious of their beauty, but this consciousness has vastly increased in today's times. Their problems too are now quite different than what they faced earlier. With enhancements in science a lot of these problems are getting solved but at the same time due to change in lifestyle many new issues are turning up. Aging skin and considerable amount of hair loss are few of the today’s issues. Let's look particularly at what causes hair loss in women.

Genetically women are different than men. The chemicals controlling the growth in women, her emotions or her external physique too are very different to those compared to men. Different hormones control body functions. One such hormone is dihydrotestosterone which is related to growth of hair. Typically, the quantity of this hormone in men is more compared to women i.e. women should have this in lesser amount. But, when this hormone is present in excess, hair loss increases.

No woman will like this term but woman balding is becoming common term today. The area of major hair loss on the head is different than that of men. Many women have a tendency to keep their hair long which can camouflage well the sparse hair areas on their head. Still the concept of baldness in women is not as common as it is in men; in any society there are a good number of men present to support each other emotionally. Rather being bald is not a big deal in men because of its commonness. This is not so in women, which causes frustration in them. The hormone dihydrotestosterone, according to scientists, is major cause of women hair loss. But the human body is so complex that there are thousands of chemicals, enzymes, and hormones controlling its metabolism. Those are interwoven; one thing affects several others directly or indirectly, resulting in very complex structure to study cause and effect of any action. Due to this, there can be a host of other chemicals in women that cause hair loss in them.

Normal hair has got maximum life of six years, after this it stays for some time and then falls down. New hair grows from the same location. It again stays for six years and the cycle continues. In today’s life we take so much synthetic medication and even our food items contain harmful chemicals. Any of these may affect enzymes controlling life cycle of hair. You can imagine how tedious it is to find out which one is affecting what.

There can be external minor causes too; like the environment, bad habits of conditioning hair and stress. Pollution, dust particles get accumulated in hairs this deteriorates health of hairs. One should keep that neat, wash regularly, use suitable shampoo, hair oils and any other conditioner. Every one’s hair has got different characteristics thus one needs to consider his/her own requirement and take care accordingly. For example oily hairs are treated differently than dry ones. Today’s women face a lot of stress too; have got many responsibilities and tensions. Stress also affects hormones, which leads to hair loss.

Source: HairRestorationTalk