Hair loss affects men and women alike and if you are reading this article I bet either you are becoming bald or your know someone who is and are afraid you will too. Hair loss can make you lose confidence in yourself and if your father or grandfather already have it, it may seem inevitable you will lose your hair too.

Fear no more! There are many effective ways you can prevent this from happening and even reverse it once hair loss has begun, I'll show you a few.

The first tip is to treat your hair well. Don't do perms all the time, don't pull it, and don't put weird chemicals in your hair (dyeing products included)… What's the point of having an astonishing beautiful hair right now that makes the ladies want to pat your head or the guys drool at you, if later you will have to wear a wig?

Next, make sure you keep your hair clean and if you ever feel itching in your head for more than a week go see a dermatologist. If you are concerned about your hair, you should be concerned about anything that goes on with your scalp. There are some nasty diseases that start by just itching and can make you balder than a soccer ball. Also, the very act of scratching your hair, very much like tearing it, may make you suffer from hair loss.

The third tip is one I know you are just gonna love. Get head massages all the time. Ask your girlfriend to massage your scalp, get your men to run his hands through your hair… You have the excuse of health (Honey, you don't want me to suffer from hair loss) and who knows just what that might lead to as the hours go by… Massage will stimulate blood circulation, giving more nutrients for your hair to grow.

Fourth, mainly for guys, don't use steroids. Steroids may make your muscles bulge, but they will ruin your heart, make you look like hulk (the ladies would prefer Bruce Banner, if you mind) and make your testosterone skyrocket, blowing down any effort to prevent hair loss.

And last, start using hair loss treatments before beginning to lose hair. If you have people in your family who are losing or lost hair and if you hair is beginning to get thinner and thinner, hair loss treatments have proven to be the most effective way to prevent you from getting bald and to grow any lost hair back. Usually medications will stop hair loss by preventing testosterone from turning on genes that cause hair loss.

So, that's it, five easy ways to prevent hair loss. And the best thing is that if you are already losing hair these five techniques can stop that and hair loss treatments will even make you grow a lion's mane in no time. Better than this only if you could change your genes!