Can You Blame Your Football Team For Your Hair Loss?

Can You Blame Your Football Team For Your Hair Loss?

Baldness is a degrading condition for millions of men and women, and can lead to psychological problems and feelings of self worthlessness. While millions of people look at the negative side of baldness, there are also millions of hair loss sufferers

who see it as just another fact of life.

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

Now it must be pointed out that there is not a magic pill for ailing balding (yet) and there is no one single treatment that works for everyone. As a salient fact, in most cases a combination of a few anti- hair loss products will derive better results than any one product or technique. The baldness treatment that suits each of will need to be tailored to our individual characteristics and traits.

That moves us to the question at hand, whether or not stress can cause baldness? You see, stress is so routinely referred to as the major cause of baldness, that many people believe this to be accurate. The fact is

that stress is a cause of balding, so you can blame your job or your sporting team if it makes you feel better, but it is not the major cause. Stress is seen as a contributing factor of hair loss, but there is one major factor that is far more prevalent than all other causes.

Balding can be caused by many factors, with more than 50% of males suffering 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 balding or thinning by age 60. The most prevalent hair loss cause is Pattern Baldness. Pattern hair loss alone affects more than 40% of the male population. Pattern balding is easy to explain - it is a genetic disposition - it develops naturally.

A genetic predisposition will mean that most men and women will experience Pattern Baldness. The cause of Pattern baldness is very multifaceted, but simply put, it occurs when testosterone combines 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 catalytic agent for slowing down hair production and produces weaker, shorter hair - and ultimately stops hair from growth altogether.

The effects of Pattern Baldness on men is much different than on women. 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. hair loss on top, with hair still growing at the sides and back. Women tend to lose hair evenly 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.

There are many other causes of baldness too, but again, none are as prevalent as pattern baldness. The other causes of balding are assignable for such small percentages of cases, and in the majority of cases are the easiest to prevent, detect or even reverse. Other known causes of balding are hormonal imbalances (especially in women) illnesses, inferior diet, below par hygiene, drug abuse and last but not least, stress. Again, stress is an absolute known cause of balding. Not a major cause, but it ranks in the top few causes.

The scientific name for stress-related baldness is Telogen Effluvium. This type of balding can also be caused by experiences such as trauma, childbirth, puberty, major surgery and even severe chronic illness. Telogen Effluvium is characterized by immediate hair loss caused by an interruption in the normal hair growth cycle. Stress and trauma cause large numbers of hair follicles to synchronously 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 balding can become chronic and eventually lead to more prevalent balding.

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 secondary causes of balding. And it is only really related to more dramatic experiences that have bought on stress. Fact is, Pattern Baldness is the most prevalent cause of hair loss, and acting on it quickly can help the minimize the effect it has.
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A healthy diet is extremely important in hair loss prevention. Avoiding processed foods, caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco products is a great hairloss prevention tactic and you may be surprised at the results. Seeing a specialist in the early stages of hair loss will increase your chances of re-growth. Visit www.hairloss-baldness.info for further information and in depth articles.

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