Treatment for thin and thinning hair:
Hair loss can start to occur at any time of your adult life. The most common causes are related to pregnancy, stress, diet, ageing and seasonality. Spring hair tonic has been specially formulated with natural ingredients to reduce hair loss. if used regularly, it can reduce hair loss and will leave your hair soft, glossy and more manageable. The tonic is also an excellent treatment for dandruff.
About hair loss
> We each have about 100 000 hairs on the scalp
> It is normal to lose 50 t0 100 hairs from the head each day
> Each hair on the head grows for about 5 years before being shed
> Scalp hair grows at a rate of about 1 cm (just under half an inch) a month
> A survey has shown that about 7.9 million men and 1.6 million women in the UK have hair loss problems
> Each year, American men spend about $900 million on efforts to regrow hair
> In the USA and UK, there has not been a bald President or Prime Minister since the television age began
Hair loss is a big worry to many people, both male and female. If you have a worrying amount of hair in the basin after shampooing, you may think you are on the way to baldness. But this is not usually the case. The 50 to 100 hairs that everyone loses each day often become tangled with the rest of the hair, but are washed out when we shampoo. So we see what seems like a lot of hair in the basin after shampooing, but in reality these hairs have been shed earlier.
There are many factors associated with hair loss that can disturb this delicate balance resulting in excess hair loss leading to thin or thinning hair.
The most common factors thought responsible for hair loss are Stress, Childbirth, Iron Deficiency, Hormone Changes and Ageing. Todays modern lifestyles may also contribute to hair loss simple factors such as excessive use of hair dryers, certain hair colours and excess brushing.
Mens Hair Loss
Most men eventually lose hair at the sides of the forehead. This mainly occurs at or after middle age, but it can start at any time after puberty. In fact, most balding men say that they first noticed the problem when they were in their mid-20s. Some men also lose hair from the top of their head, then eventually only the sides and back of the head have hair, forming a horseshoe shape. This is known as common baldness, androgenic alopecia or male pattern baldness.
If you were able to look at the bald area under a microscope you would see that there are the same number of hair follicles as before, but each is shrunken, the hairs being produced are fine and short and pale, and more of the follicles than usual are in the 'resting phase'.
It is impossible to predict how quickly anyone will lose hair. One study found an average rate of hair loss of about 5% per year. Once they have started to notice hair loss, most men take 15 to 25 years to lose most of their hair, but a few are completely bald after 5 years. The rate of hair loss usually varies; a lot of hair may be lost over a 3 to 6-month period, and then no more for 6 to 18 months. This makes it very difficult to tell whether 'treatments' are having an effect.
Causes of male pattern hair loss
Male hormones. 'Maleness' was recognized by Aristotle as a cause of baldness. He wrote that boy, woman or castrated male ever becomes bald! and he thought that baldness was a sign of virility (he was bald himself!). To a large degree, science has proved him right. Baldness is the result of hair follicles reacting to male hormones. However, men with male pattern baldness do not have more male hormone than other men. It is simply that their hair follicles are more responsive to the hormones.
The main male hormone is testosterone. Both men and women have testosterone in the blood, but men have more. The skin of the scalp converts testosterone to another substance called dihydrotestosterone (DHT for short). Hair follicles in areas that are destined to become bald are especially sensitive to DHT it makes them shrink. Follicles on the sides and back of the head are not affected by DHT.
Confusingly, DHT helps growth of the beard and hair on the chest. This explains why bald men can have bushy beards and hairy chests. Nobody knows how DHT produces opposite effects on hair growth on different parts of the body.
Heredity (genetics). If you have relatives with thin hair or who are bald, you may well develop the same problem. This tendency can be inherited from either the mother's or the father's side of the family (but the mother herself would usually be unaffected, or her hair might start thinning after the menopause). Inheritance probably makes the follicles extra-sensitive to DHT.
Ageing. Baldness is more likely with increasing age: 40% of men have noticeable hair loss by age 35; and 65% by age 60. Most elderly people have thin, fine hair even if they are not noticeably bald.
Womens Hair Loss:
Women who lose their hair often worry that they are going bald like a man, and that their hormones are becoming masculinized. In fact, patchy baldness (alopecia areata) and total baldness (alopecia totalis and alopecia universalis) are unrelated to hormones and occur equally commonly in men and women.
Thinning hair after the menopause
Like men, most women develop widening partings and thinning of the hair all over the scalp with age; this is normal. It actually starts in the teens or early 20s, and by the age of 50 over half of all women have thinning hair. After the menopause, thinning of the hair is more pronounced. Hair can also become thin at the front, similar to the male pattern. This is because the hair follicles are responding in exactly the same way as in balding men to the testosterone in the blood. All women have testosterone; this is perfectly normal. The balding does not mean that the woman has more testosterone; it simply means that the hair follicles on her scalp are oversensitive, which is probably inherited. The hair will eventually not become any worse. There is no need to worry that you will become completely bald.
Hair loss and other symptoms.
A few women develop male pattern baldness with other problems such as growth of hair on the face, lumpy acne, deepening of the voice and irregular periods. In rare cases, this can mean that too much testosterone is being produced by a tumour, so it is important to see your family doctor so that appropriate tests can be done.
Causes of thinning hair in women
Thinning hair may be caused by:
> age (most old people have thinner hair than when they were young)
> heredity (some people are programmed to have thin hair, particularly as they get older)
> a hormone disorder (particularly an underactive thyroid gland)
> drugs
> iron deficiency (most likely in women who are vegetarians)
> severe mental stress (such as bereavement), 2–3 months previously
> severe physical illness of any sort, 2–3 months previously (particularly a high fever or severe infection – the hair grows again when the body has fully recovered)
> childbirth (it is common to shed a lot of hair for 1–6 months after childbirth, but it usually grows again afterwards)
> systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, a disease affecting the connective tissue)
> damage from bleaches and relaxers, which can make the hair become 'soapy' in texture and break off (Afro-Caribbean hair is especially vulnerable).
Spring nettle Hair Tonic Directions for use:
Use on dry hair. Spray Spring Nettle Hair Tonic directly into affected area, covering evenly. Make sure the scalp gets thoroughly wet with the tonic. Then slowly massage the scalp as deeply as possible with your fingers. Leave overnight and wash with mild shampoo in the morning. For best results, use every night for the first two months and then every other night.
Always wash hands before and after use. If contact with eyes should occur, wash thoroughly with clean tap water. Avoid if you suffer from high blood pressure. Avoid if you are pregnant.
