Although we know that male pattern baldness, or, scientifically, Androgenetic alopecia, accounts for around 90% of hair loss in both males and females, there are other causes. What about the other 10%?

These causes include aging, disease, stress, malnutrition, and improper hair care. I will talk to you about two of these common problems.

Bleaching hair can make it look very nice and, if done properly, no permanent loss of hair is anticipated.

Improper Hair Care - Bleaching and strong chemicals can severely damage hair and cause hair loss.

It is frustrating – especially if you have hair problems – to see people with full, healthy heads of hair treating their hair badly in ignorance:

Bleaching, dying, tight hair-styles – they can all have harmful effects on the hair.

Coloring, perming or bleaching hair can often cause thinning by making strands weaker.

Hair-styles that pull hair tight, such as pony tails and braids, also cause baldness by dislodging hair from its roots.

Chemicals used in tinting and dying hair also may cause damage, and, consequently, cause hair to fall off.

Using permanent hair colorings too soon after the last one, can cause hair to go spongy and fall out and break easy. That happened to my wife once. It was quite a fearful time for her.

It is not any better in the hair salons, however. Styling pulls the hair tightly against the scalp, and excessive styling will cause the hair to weaken and fall off, a loss called “traction alopecia.” As long as this is stopped before any scarring of the scalp occurs, the hair will grow back to its normal density.

It is also extremely bad to expose your hair to hot oil treatments and other chemicals besides those used in temporary dying, as inflammation is possible, and this may also lead to scarring of the scalp, and, consequently, hair loss.

Improper Nutrition

Hair loss has been thoroughly researched, and researchers have noticed that much of common baldness attributed to male pattern baldness may be due to insufficient iron or protein, and all other forms of malnutrition.

Even though miracle diets sound extremely effective, they may not supply you with all the necessary nutrients and may cause damage to your hair.

Vitamin deficiencies, also due to a bad diet, also cause hair loss.

It may take a long time to discover what is causing your baldness, but, when you do, it will be worth it.

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Baldness and premature hair loss can be caused by genetics and therefore run in a family

Male pattern baldness can happen to male teenagers as well as to men.

Females are at risk of developing hair loss and female baldness, due to hormonal changes, such as with giving birth, or getting pregnant.

After age 30, hair loss and baldness in both men and women is to be expected.

After age 40, males will typically show signs of male pattern baldness and females will normally start seeing their hair thinning out.

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