What Causes Hair Loss

What causes hair loss? Here are four major contributors.

Testosterone is converted to DHT by an enzyme known as 5 alpha reductase. DHT contributes to both male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia. The attempt to reduce DHT production seems to be the most popular way of stopping hair loss and regrowing new hair. Drugs such as Finasteride and Dutasteride are 2 such drugs with clinically proven results showing their effectiveness. Natural substances believed to be effective in the process of inhibiting DHT include Saw Palmetto, L-lysine, Green Tea Extract and Beta Sitosterol.

Stress can be a contributing factor in hair loss for multiple reasons. Stress may cause a person to eat differently than they normally might thus causing a lack of vital nutrients. Stress can produce hormonal imbalances that can cause over or under production of hormones which will in turn accelerate hair loss.

Illness may also create hormonal imbalances and stress which may precipitate follicle displacement. Top this off with medications that are necessary to combat illness or stress and you increase the likeliness of losing your hair all the more!

Androgenic or androgenetic alopecia is the technical term for male or female pattern baldness.

This is also called hereditary baldness and regardless of which "old wives tale" you've been told, can come from either your mother's or father's side of the family.

While men typically begin losing hair from the crown of their head or above the temples, women tend to experience a general thinning from the entire scalp area.

Since there is nothing you can do about your heritage and it's affect on your hairline you may want to explore other ways of combating thinning hair.

Read on to discover both natural and commercial options of combating those circumstances which causes hair loss.