Losing your hair can be discouraging, especially if you need to look your best all the time. You may be prescribed certain medications and herbal remedies that promise to take out the toxins that make your hair thin. You might also be told that you have to drink certain herbs or even have surgery on your head done for your rapidly disappearing hair. There are many ways for you to deal with hair loss. But what causes hair loss?



First, there are actually genetic causes that underlie hair loss. Your parents or grandparents may have had the right combination of genes that could lead to hair loss, and you could have gotten these genes from them. You may experience hair loss early as a result, whether you are a man or a woman; and this kind of hair loss can start off as thinning hair, and lead to complete patches of no hair.

You may also lose your hair fairly quickly if you put a lot of stress on it. You might be fond of braiding your hair and pulling on it, or putting it into corn rows, or curling it and making tight and tiny curls that give the illusion of your hair having body, or adding chemicals to it to make it straight or color it. There are many ways for you to put a lot of stress on your hair if you simply step into your local salon! You will need to avoid going to the salon too often, especially if your procedure requires that you apply chemicals to your hair in order to get the desired effect, or if your procedure entails subjecting your hair to extreme temperatures.

Stress can also induce hair loss, and you may find that your hair can thin quickly and fall out faster when you lack sleep or rest. This is because stress, whether from work, family, or school, can damage your immune system and weaken your body. It can also constrict your tiniest blood vessels, your capillaries, which provide blood and oxygen to different cells of the body. This includes the hair follicles, which allow your hair to grow. Without proper circulation of the blood, your hair can thin and you can go through hair loss much sooner. This means that you simply need to know when your body is trying to tell you to slow down or stop. When you start feeling fatigued, you may want to take a vacation or rest for a while before going back to work.

Your body may also be going through a hormonal imbalance, and any hormonal imbalance can directly or indirectly lead to hair loss. For instance, some reproductive hormones such as estrogen can lead to thick hair, but when this estrogen suddenly drops – such as after a woman gives birth – then hair can start falling out. Thyroid hormones, which allow the body to maintain its normal functions through complete digestion and absorption of nutrients, can also fluctuate from time to time, and affect hair growth and thickness.

There are still many different ways that your body can lose hair, and there are still many different causes of hair loss. You will need to talk to your physician about what you can do to avoid hair loss, and if you are already experiencing hair loss, you may need to look for different therapies that can either stop hair loss or make up for the hair that you have already lost.