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Some
myths about hair loss:
- Frequent shampooing contributes
to hair loss.
- Hats and wigs cause hair
loss.
- Hair loss is inherited
only through the mother's family.
- Hair loss is more
common in people whose work involves intense thinking and cerebration,
for example, intellectuals and academics.
- Permanent hair loss
is caused by perms, colors and other cosmetic treatments.
- There are cosmetic
products that will cause hair to grow faster than the normal
growth cycle.
- 100 strokes of
the hair brush daily will cause healthier hair.
- Dandruff causes
permanent hair loss.
- Women don't go
bald.
- Hair loss can
be minimized by not shampooing.
- Woman with androgentic
alopecia will go bald.
- Alopecia areata
is due to stress.
- Baldness is inherited
from the maternal grandmother.
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Some
facts about hair loss:
- Genetics.
- An inherited tendency
to store the male hormone testosterone. Testosterone breaks
down to form DHT. DHT attacks the hair follicle, causing it
to shrink, finally causing the hair to fall out and not grow
back.
- The normal scalp
sheds about a 100 hairs daily.
- About twenty million
American women experience pattern baldness.
- Physical stress.
- Emotional stress.
- Thyroid abnormalities.
- Chemotherapy agents
that poison the growing hair follicle.
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