Hair Loss: Beating The Genetic Code

By Samuel Reed

Hair loss affects roughly 35 million men and 21 million women in the Unites States alone.  This affliction while not life threatening has a deep impact on one’s self esteem, self-confidence, and self-perception. Hair loss can often invite cruel remarks even from family and friends. Hair loss also makes people feel a sense of identity loss and often forces them into a state of concealing their hair loss anyway they can.

Hair loss seems to be happening at an earlier age than ever before. Even high school students are starting to develop problems with hair loss. While genetics are considered to be the overriding factor in common forms of baldness, there are preventative steps one can take to fend off hair loss before it begins.

Taking these steps before or in the early stages of hair loss can help you avoid more difficult steps down the road. While reversing hair loss is possible throughout a variety of methods, the earlier you deal with the issue the faster it is resolved.

Know Your Family History

A long running misconception is that the trait for hair loss is inherited from the mother’s side. We now know that it is possible to inherit this trait from either or both sides. Take a look at your parents, grandparents, siblings, uncles, aunts, and cousins. Your family member’s hair holds the clues for where your hair may be going.

If there is a steady pattern of hair loss in your family, there may be hair loss in your future. Occasionally, hair loss skips a family member within a generation. This phenomenon could explain why you are losing your hair and your brother isn’t.

Look For The Signs

If you think you’re beginning to lose your hair look for the tell tale signs and confirm this is the case. Often hair will fall out for other reasons like stress and/or poor health. It’s important to remember that non-balding people lose 50-100 hairs everyday. When you see extra hair accumulating in the shower drain, on your pillow, or in your hairbrush, this could indicate the early stages of hair loss.

The best way to tell if your experiencing serious hair loss is to self examine your hair with one or two mirrors. Look for uneven patterns of hair and/or a few hairs missing in obvious spots.  Use a brush or comb to move hair aside for a closer inspection. If there is a serious problem, you’ll know.

Relax

If you are beginning to lose your hair, you have found out at the most optimum time. At this point, you have identified the problem and are able to begin dealing with it. The sooner you identify hair loss the easier it is to reverse it. Even those with more serious hair loss have the opportunity to do something about it. If you are the former and are at the early stage, you have greatly shortened your hair loss ordeal.

Take Action

Many people, particularly men just accept hair loss. If your hair is important to you, you should not subscribe to this attitude. There are a variety of ways to reverse hair loss at many stages. Taking action is vital for those who want their hair back. A hair loss sufferer must be proactive about their dilemma and begin researching treatment options.

There are many methods whether they are clinical, surgical, or natural to treat hair loss. If you are an early stage sufferer, a shampoo formulated to remove DHT will definitely help you keep most of your hair.  For someone who is not losing their hair, but genetically disposed to baldness, using a special shampoo could prevent baldness altogether.

Beating The Genetics Of Hair Loss

While many believe that if you’re going to be bald, there is nothing that can be done about it, this simply is incorrect. Hair loss can be treated at any stage. If you think hair loss is in your future based on your family history, begin looking into options before the process begins. If the process has already begun, become proactive and take the steps to stop your hair loss and regrow the hair you have lost.

When you feel nothing can be done to resolve your hair loss, remember that many times doctors have told patients that they will never walk again only to be proven wrong by strong willed patients. People with a predisposition to weight problems have often been able to remain healthy and fit. While genetics are a factor in hair loss, being proactive can substantially lower the influence of these genetics.

Samuel Reed is a hair loss survivor and the author of Hair Reborn: The Holistic Approach For Natural Hair Regrowth, a book with a detailed plan for naturally stopping hair loss and regrowing hair.

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