How to prevent hair loss

The hair loss, baldness in popular language, has always been one of the biggest obsessions of mankind. Despite the fashion of the rapados, loss of hair causes more of a complex poorly carried in men and in women.

What is alopecia? A natural process, neither more nor less. The life cycle of a human hair ranges from two to three years. While some fall, others growing up, being the normal daily loss of around a hundred hairs, which are in the sink after hairstyles, in the shoulder by the American, in the sheets ...

Over the years, however, the hair falls and loses vitality diffuse slowly and relentlessly. And, worse, do not regenerate. We talked about the common or androgenetic alopecia, which in Spain affects more than eight million people, mostly male, although women not escape its effects.

The alopecia is a common hormonal problem that manifests itself in men from puberty, and women, in different periods of his life (puberty, menopause, childbirth ...). Androgens (male hormo-nas) are the major culprits of this hair loss.

That does not mean that a large number of these hormones, like testosterone, leading to baldness, but the cells of the scalp are overly sensitive to them. This causes the atrophy of the hair follicle (root) and fall short of hair affected.

However, hereditary factors also influence. Although the exact mode of transmission is still a mystery, one can say with little margin for error, that "parents bald, bald children" The androgenetic is the most widespread type of baldness, but not the only one.

Other arrangements are telógenos of tenacity and alopecia areata. Telógenos known tenacity for the temporary fall of the hair, which responds to different causes. So, a lot of cases of this kind of disruption due to psychological problems.

In this sense, a situation of prolonged stress or neural disorder may experience problems with the cabello.Y also adversely affect some drugs (contraceptive products or chemotherapy), certain prevalent diseases (diabetes, abnormal thyroid), postoperative or diets low in protein.