Hair loss, the hair growth cycle

The primary component of hair fiber is a kind of protein that called keratin. It also contains natural oils (lipids) and water. Hairs grow from follicles found all over the human body except on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet and on the lips. Human scalp contains about 120,000 to 200,000 hairs. Their growth starts since birth and will grow until old age. In order to understand the causes of hair loss you have to learn about 3 phases of your hair growth cycle.

The life cycle of hair has 3 stages:

Anagen or active growth phase, Catagen or transition phase and Telogen or resting phase

The anagen phase refers to the stage that hair grows continually about half an inch per month. This stage lasts 2 to 8 years. About 90% of hairs are in this stage at any time. People who can’t grow their hair long have short anagen phase and people who have an active, healthy anagen growth phase have long hair.

When the Anagen growth phase comes to an end, the next transitional phase starts. During the catagen phase, structural and chemical changes take place in the follicle and growth of the hair completely stops. This phase lasts about 2 to 3 weeks and 3% of all hairs are in this phase at any time. Then, they move to the next stage.

In the final phase of telogen hair sheds and the follicles are completely rest from producing keratin. This phase lasts about 3 months. When the cycle passes this stage, anagen starts again.

If all of our hairs were in the same phase at the same time they would all fall together!!! But instead of that they fall out at different times independent from their neighbors.

Approximately 25 to 100 hairs shed normally every day. Hair grows faster in the summer and slower in the winter. Its growth depends on age too. Younger people have more hair growth than older.

common causes of hair loss in men and women

Have you noticed that your hair is starting to fall out? Seeing hair go down the drain after shampooing can be quiet upsetting to most of people. A number of things can cause excessive hair loss including stress, genetics, thyroid disorders, drugs, blood loss, chemotherapy, nutritional deficiencies (specially iron and vitamin A), hormonal imbalance. These are some of the more common reasons.


Within three or four months after illness you will notice large amounts of hair coming out in your brushes. This is related to the stress of illness and you shouldn't worry about that because that is temporary.


If your thyroid gland is overactive or underactive, your hair may fall out. This kind of problems usually can be improved by treatment of thyroid disease.


Also about two or three months after pregnancy, some women may suddenly lose a large amount of their hair. This loss is related to hormonal changes and this is not permanent.
But hair loss is usually based on genetic background. If your mother or father or even your grandparents lost their hair at their young age, then you should expect that happens to you too.


Losing hair also occurs if male or female hormones (androgens and estrogens) become out of balance. Curing the hormone imbalance will stop your hair loss.


Some medicines can cause hair problems too. This type of hair loss improves when you stop taking the medicine. Certain hairstyles that create pull on the scalp also cause hair loss.


There are many effective treatments available today and many people use them to save their hair and re-grow hair they have lost. The most impressive of these treatments are antiandrogens that prevent the creation of DHT.

stop hair loss with a DHT blocker

The first thing that many people notice is a person overall appearance and hair is a part of it. Everybody wishes to look good and beautiful. Unfortunately many people including both genders have lost their hair due to hair loss problems. In males, it is generally referred to as male pattern baldness and frequently results in total baldness. In females, the hair will become thinner on the surface area of the head. There are some causes which can result in hair problems. The most of them are poor diet, sickness, some medications, tight hairstyling and genetic factors.


Apart from the causes mentioned above, one major cause of that is DHT. It is an abbreviation of Dihydrotestostrone and is synthesized as a byproduct of conversion of testosterone. It is the main enemy of your hair. People with high DHT hormone level are most susceptible for hair loss problems and they have actually inherited that from their family. DHT blocks the way of proteins, nutrients, vitamins and blood to the hair follicles and as a result follicles can’t reproduce hair because of the insufficient nutrients and ultimately leading to baldness.


If you are one of the many people who suffer from hair loss, since you can't change your genes, to get rid of that you have to use a DHT blocker as a hair loss treatment. The blocker prevents synthesizing of DHT and cures hair problems.

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Hair loss is an unpleasant fact and nobody wants to deal with ever. People, specially men in the age group of 35 to 50 lose 35% of their hair and after the age 60 it reaches to 65%. It starts with a few extra hairs in the sink or in their comb.


The most common causes of hair loss are poor diet, tight braids, sickness, some medications or even hereditary factors.

 Hair loss can be permanent or temporary. In temporary cases, the hair grows back after the cause of the loss has been corrected but in permanent hair loss there is a little chance of getting back the hair.

Everybody loses about 50 to 100 hairs everyday and it is natural. This lost hair is replaced after a few days but if you are losing more than that number, you have to pay more attention to your hair.

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