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Can You Blame Your Football Team For Your Hair Loss?

By: Jim McDonald
 

Millions of people suffer from baldness, and this condition can be very degrading for some people, leading to a feeling of self worthlessness. On the other hand, there are also millions of baldness sufferers who just treat their hair loss as a fact of life - a part of growing old.

The scientific discoveries in recent years have made the treatments for baldness far more effective. And like so many other medical and personal health symptoms, if you act on the problem right at the onset, you've got a better chance of slowing the affects, or occasionally, even reversing the condition.

Now it must be said that there is not a magic pill for curing hair loss (yet) and there is no one single cure that works for one and all. As a significant fact, in many instances a combination of a few anti- baldness products will derive better results than any one particular product or technique. Because everyone one of us is wired differently, the hair loss treatment for you will need to be tailored to suit your individual characteristics.

That brings us to the question at hand, whether or not stress can cause baldness? You see, stress is so frequently referred to as the major cause of balding, that many people believe this to be correct. The fact is that stress is a cause of hair loss, so you can blame your job or your sporting team if it makes you feel better, but it is not the major cause. Often stress can be contributing factor, but there is one major cause of baldness that precedes all others.

Hair loss can be caused by many factors, with more than 50% of males undergoing some form of hair loss or thinning by middle age. Women also suffer from hair loss, and around 35-40% of women will suffer some type of baldness or thinning by age 60. Pattern Baldness is the most common cause of hair loss. Pattern hair loss alone affects more than 40% of the male population. Pattern balding is easy to explain - it is a genetic disposition - it eventuates naturally.

Most men and women are genetically predisposed to Pattern Baldness. The cause of Pattern hair loss is very multifaceted, but in laymans terms, it occurs when testosterone interacts with a specific enzyme and is converted into what is know as dihydrotestosterone (aka DHT). DHT has a detrimental affect on the hair follicles - it is the catalyst for slowing down hair production and produces weaker, shorter hair - and finally stops hair from growth altogether.

Men and women suffer from Pattern baldness in very different ways. Men tend to endure thinning hair in certain sections or patches of the scalp and that's why many cases in men result in the 'monk' effect, i.e. baldness on top, with hair still growing at the sides and back. Women tend to lose hair uniformly across the scalp, so instead of having a visibly bald patch, a woman can actually lose more hair than a man, but still appear to have a full head of hair.

Pattern Baldness is by far the most likely cause f hair loss, but there are a number of other known causes. The other causes of balding are attributable for such small percentages of cases, and in many instances are the easiest to prevent, detect or even reverse. Other known causes of hair loss are hormonal imbalances (especially in women) illnesses, bad diet, modest hygiene, drug abuse and last but not least, stress. Again, stress is an established known cause of hair loss. Not a major cause, but it ranks in the top few causes.

Telogen Effluvium is the scientific name of baldness that is caused by stress. This type of baldness can also be caused by experiences such as trauma, childbirth, puberty, major surgery and even severe chronic illness. Telogen Effluvium is characterized by abrupt hair loss caused by an interruption in the normal hair growth cycle. Stress and trauma cause large numbers of hair follicles to concurrently enter a stage of rest. After some time, the hair follicles will enter a stage of growth, and the old hair will be forced out of the follicle by a new hair that is formed beneath it. The result is a period of hair shedding, and is usually self correcting, but if the stress is ongoing, then this type of hair loss can become chronic and eventually lead to more prevalent hair loss.

So in theory you can blame your job for your baldness, or you could blame your hockey team, or football team or basketball team. But in reality, although stress can lead to hair loss, it is one of the lesser causes of hair loss. And it is only really related to more dramatic experiences that have bought on stress. Pattern Baldness is the most likely cause of hair loss, and if you act on it right away there's a good chance that you can minimize the effects.

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