Regrow Hair -Or- Don’t Go Bald In The First Place
You can regrow your hair. Find information on hair treatments, regrowth, and replacments here. Also, how not to lose your hair in the first place.
Stress, diet, heat damage, sweat, wearing hats, chemicals. There are so many “reasons” for hair loss that it makes sense that most people just don’t know where to start when they realize that yes, they have a problem. The first line of defense in this fight is to take steps before losing your hair. If successful, you won’t have to worry about ways to regrow hair or replace hair through any of the medical or surgical methods available.
What are the medical facts regarding hair loss?
First let’s cover what exactly causes hair loss from within the body. A doctor would use the term Androgenic Alopecia. A TV commentator would call the same condition Patter Baldness. A commonly used term is even “Male Pattern Baldness” as if it doesn’t or rarely occurs in women. Not true. Women experience the same condition just not in the same percentages as men. Either sex can be said to have pattern baldness. Here’s why. Over our lives hair follicles get smaller and support active growth for shorter periods of time. Hormones also play a part in that they control the characteristics or our makeup. Meaning the things that make a man a man and a women a women are triggered, controlled, and maintained by hormones. As we age, hormones change our makeup in ways fitting an older person such as lessening muscle development and, hair growth. Hair loss is a common symptom of major hormonal changes in women such as pregnancy or menopause.
What can you do to prevent hair loss?
When we go beyond the natural causes for hair loss, damage is a real problem that can easily be addresses to help keep your hair on your head. Specifically, your hair “care” routine could be causing you long term pain than you realize. When hair sprouts from your scalp, it’s already perfect as far as nature is concerned. Left alone and routinely cleaned, it will go on to live for a long and healthy time span. Of course, most people aren’t fit to simply let their hair flow naturally without treatment or guidance of some sort. Unfortunately, the way we go about this treatment and guidance is the problem. Dyes, straightening chemical, hair dryers, and curling irons and known to be the most common forms of hair damage. If you’re able to simply settle on a style and maintenance routine that calls for limited use of these damaging tools and techniques, you’ll be that much better off in your fight to keep hair on your head.
Diet is also a controllable aspect of your health that will play into the health of your hair just as much as any other part of your body. Specifically, calcium is know to be a key part of healthy teeth, bones, and hair. You hear about the teeth and bones all the time for obvious reasons but healthy hair also needs calcium. On top of that, it’s never a bad idea to maintain an healthy diet based on as many whole foods as possible while avoiding processed foods. You body is a machine of interconnected and interacting systems that all use fuel and work together. Given enough of the right kinds of fuel, you can ensure that diet will not be of concern in your fight against hair loss.
With damage and diet covered, there is a remaining issue that can lead to hair loss in a compounding way: STRESS! If you stress over losing your hair, you see how this problem can compound itself pretty easily. Fortunately the stress of everyday life is not the stress we’re talking about here. Heavy stress of the type that is atypical to your life such as critical illness of yourself or a loved one, dealing with economic or marital crisis. All these types of heavy stress can contribute to your body shedding and not regrowing hair in the normal patters leading to baldness or thinning. Short of controlling what life throws at you, there are a few proven ways of dealing with stress that are recommended and known to help. Number one would be to fight back mentally through prayer, meditation, and positive thinking. Stress is natural and can be dealt with through the exercise of working to control your thoughts rather than letting them control you. Number two is to fight back physically through exercise. Literally “working out” to work out stress is known to work for many people. Not only do you work through energy in a productive way, you also focus your thoughts on an activity that, unlike much of life at times, you do have control over and that has a healing effect in itself.
What else can you do?
Above we’ve covered the basic natural steps to losing or not losing hair. Of course medical technology and science have taken up the fight as well and have provided a number of very effective weapons in the fight to keep your hair. We’ve highlighted a few of our recommendations for the best weapons again hair loss are listed in our “resources” section and linked directly to our recommendation for the best way to regrow hair.