What causes hair loss?
Hair loss has many causes. What’s causing your hair loss can determine whether your hair:
-Fall out gradually or abruptly
-Thins
-Can regrow on its own
-Requires treatment to regrow
-Needs immediate care to prevent permanent hair loss.
According to scientists, there are four causes of alopecia in either men or women.
- Too much DHT
- Pseudo-estrogens chemicals
- Lack of vital nutrients
DHT:
DHT is a male sex hormone created when certain enzymes convert testosterone in men's testes and prostate and women's ovaries. Free testosterone is broken down into DHT. This chemical binds to the hair follicle receptors blocking vital nutrients from accessing the hair. The hair becomes miniaturized and thin and eventually dies.
That is the reason eunuchs never had any hair loss, which got Plato wondering. It is also why only men get male pattern baldness and women don’t. Hair loss in women is more evenly distributed with a thinning over the whole scalp. Also, effective DHT inhibiting treatment was only effective on young men with hair loss and not older men or women. Excessive DHT is, therefore, not the only reason for losing your hair.
PSEUDO-OESTROGEN CHEMICALS:
Normally unheard of for women in China to get hair loss at any age. Over the last 25 years, an increasing number of Chinese women in the industrialized areas of China are experiencing hair loss. This has been put down to chemicals from the industrial process, which mimics the chemical effects of estrogens. These pseudo-estrogen chemicals bind tighter to the hair follicle receptors than normal estrogens do, starving the hair follicle of vital nutrients, similar to the way DHT does. Also, this seems to be the reason for hair loss in obese men. Fat cells in obese and balding men contain more of the enzyme aromatase. Also, bacteria in fat cells produce estrogen-like chemicals.
LACK OF VITAL NUTRIENTS:
A nutritional deficiency occurs when the body doesn't absorb or get the necessary amount of a nutrient from food. Deficiencies can lead to a variety of health problems. These can include digestion problems, skin disorders, hair loss, and even dementia. The hair needs a variety of nutrients to sustain itself. The theory is that both DHT and estrogen-like chemicals block the hair follicle by binding to it too tightly. Even without these chemicals, a person lacking in these nutrients will experience hair loss.
There has been a trailer on mice that show the effect of a deficiency of certain vitamins or minerals. Staten scientists injected naturally “nude” mice with vitamin D; they started sprouting hair at an alarming rate. Scientists knocked out the genes in mice responsible for the regulation of the hair and scalp. These genes are, in turn, normally regulated by vitamin D. The result was rickets and hair loss, with dermal cysts appearing quite early on.
It has been shown that copper and zinc if lacking together, increase a loss of hair. In fact, a copper peptide was shown to induce hair growth in the skin around the wound of a person. The copper peptide was first used as a healing accelerant.
ALOPECIA AREATA:
Alopecia areata is a kind of disease that develops when the body’s immune system attacks hair follicles (which holds the hair in place), causing hair loss. You can lose hair anywhere on your body, including your scalp, inside your nose, and in your ears. Some people lose their eyelashes or eyebrows.
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