If what’s left of your hair is turning gray because of hair loss, you shouldn’t worry — it’s an experience millions deal with because of how common it is and how many causes it has. Arm yourself with knowledge as to how and why hair loss is happening to you. With the power of knowledge, you can help stem the causes and better facilitate your scalp’s future success.
1. Severe Weight Loss
Though many view weight loss as a gain, your body often sees it as a physical trauma — especially when it happens over a short period of time. The added physical stress or possible lack of vitamins or minerals in a new diet may cause hair to shed along with the pounds.
If this is your hair loss cause, you should see the problem cease and repair itself within several months.
2. Stress
Hair has a normal life cycle with three phases: growth, rest, and shedding. When your body encounters incredible stress, your hair often leaps prematurely to the shedding stage through a type of hair loss named telogen effluvium. Though not identical, a similar event happens during severe emotional stress too. More often than not, emotional stress just exacerbates a current problem.
The best solution to these problems is just to focus on reducing your stressors.
3. Nutrient Overdose or Deficiency
When it comes to nutrients, there actually can be too much of a good thing. Too much vitamin A, a nutrient that bolsters vision and develops bone tissue, may lead to hair loss. On the flipside, too little protein may cause your body to sacrifice hair growth as a means of preserving the rest of itself.
Carefully monitor your vitamin A and protein intake to limit these shades of hair loss.
4. Too Much Styling
Hair can do almost anything — it can twist, turn, curl, roll, spike, and even pull off a beehive — but doing too much of everything can leave you with little to work with. Years’ worth of tight braids, corn rows, chemical relaxers, and weaves can damage hair roots. Too much root damage and those patches of hair may never be the same.
5. Feminine Hormones
Hormones control much of the body’s functions, including hair growth. When pregnant or even switching (or dropping) birth control medication, women may experience a hormone imbalance that leads to the aforementioned telogen effluvium.
6. Aging
Even when kept in good health, all aspects of the body experience degeneration with age. There’s little to do to prevent hair loss that comes with aging, so just make sure you keep yourself in best shape. Your scalp should reflect that work.
7. Heredity
Sometimes the strength of your roots is what’s causing the weakening of your roots. For both men and women, hair loss may arrive as a factor of genetics. Male pattern baldness usually results in men experiencing a receding M-shaped hairline, while female pattern baldness tends to weaken women’s hair at the part.
You Are Ready to Take Action
For a precise diagnosis over what’s causing your hair loss, consider reaching out to an expert. Contact John Frank, MD in New York City or Columbus, Ohio to find the option that works best for you.
