Hair loss, or alopecia, is not a hopeless situation. Unless being bald is written during your genes or it is a result of chemotherapy, there are plenty of things you can still do to prevent alopecia and add up to healthier hair.

The biggest misconception a individual can make is that shampooing may promote hair loss. On the contrary, regularly shampooing your hair would be the best technique to keep your hair clean and ensuring a functional scalp. It also avoids the condition called seborrheic dermatitis.

Seborrheic dermatitis manifests itself with an itchy sensation, oily scalp, flaking, and redness. It affects the scalp, quiet often around the forehead area, ears, and eyebrows. If left untreated, the condition would elevate to the presence of sores and eventually promote hair loss.

To treat or prevent yourself from acquiring this condition, make sure to wash your hair everyday. A mild shampoo formulated for everyday use is recommended over an oily hair shampoo. Wash your hair over warm water and massage your scalp gently while washing. Use cool water to rinse and gently blot dry. Set the hair dryer at a lower setting if as soon as you use it.

Taking secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG), the principal flax lignan, food supplements is believed to help add up to healthier hair. Testosterone combines with an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase to develop Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) that shrinks the hair follicles, producing thinner hair and eventually no hair at all. SDG lowers the production of 5-alpha reductase inside the body, resulting in lower levels of DHT.

German researchers have found that caffeine is a substance that can prevent hair loss. It is believed that the effects of caffeine are more preventive rather than a cure. Caffeinated hair products are currently under development. It is important to note that consuming extra cups of coffee would not be the technique to go since it would take about 60 to 80 cups of coffee per day to reach the required amount of caffeine to develop the desired effect.

Avoid using head gears that would reduce air circulation for instance wigs and caps. Do not use a hair ornament that pulls tightly on the scalp.

what is the best way to prevent hair loss possibly regrow hair?
what is the best way to prevent hair loss possibly regrow hair?

There are many silly myths that people truly believe about hair loss. Below I list the most common myths so you can stop unnecessarily worrying if it’s adding to your hair loss problem or will cause hair loss sometime in your future.

1. Wearing Hats will cause Hair Loss. – This is completely false. Hair loss is simply down to genetics and wearing or not wearing hats certainly has no effect on your genetics.
2. Hair Loss is proportional to stress in your life. – Severe traumatic stress has been know to cause temporary hair loss called telogen effeluvium. This is temporary and subsides when the stress has been treated. Daily stresses such as money, jobs, family etc have no effect on your hair.
3. You cannot treat hair loss. – Learn to live with it!!. Absolutely false, hair loss can be treated and better yet hair loss can be prevented. People with considerable hair loss can use hair restoration techniques to redistribute hair from backs and sides of head to bald areas.
4. You cannot prevent hair loss. – Again, thankfully this is false. Many treatments such as dht inhibitors and FDA approved propecia has been proven to halt hair loss in most men and women. It’s does not replace dead hair follicles but it does prevent further thinning and damage to hair follicles as well as restore brittle thin hair even peach fuzz.
5. Shaving your head will help your hair to grow back stronger. – Afraid this truly is a myth. Shaving your head does not effect your hair in anyway, dying follicles will grow back as before, thin and weak i.e until they eventually die and dead follicles will remain dead.
6. Hair loss comes from your mother’s side of the family. False, hair loss is genetic and it can be passed on from either side of the family. Androgenetic alopecia is the most common cause of hair loss.
7. Showering, towel drying and brushing hair can accelerate hair loss. The only link here is that you will notice more dying , thinned hair falling out as a result of friction from touching the hair with towel or brush. The As hair dies, its rooting in the follicle becomes weak and feeble. Therefore its easy to knock the hair out form the root. This does not alter hair loss process in any way, it just removes dying loose hair that will eventually fall out any way if not treated.

So there you have it folks. Remember that these are just myths and don’t fool yourself by thinking that you are reversing, stopping of negating hair loss in anyway by obeying the hair loss myths. If you have been reading my articles, you should now know that the first step you MUST take in treating your hair loss is get on a course of dht blocker. I personally use provillus and am more than happy with my hair. Results are visible in weeks for those whose hair is starting to thin and results may take a few months for those whos hair loss has progressed somewhat.

Tony