About 30 million women in the U.S alone are dealing with hair loss, and if you are one of them, you know how devastating it can be.
The difficulty in treating hair loss is that the causes are many and it can be tricky figuring out what is behind your fall out.
Some medications, such as anti-depressants, blood thinners and even birth control pills, can trigger hair loss.
If hair loss occurred during or after a pregnancy, or at the onset of menopause, the hormonal changes during these times are probably to blame. Once they get back in balance, hair growth often returns to normal.
A group of hormones called androgens can build up in the follicles and inhibit the cells that form hair from growing. This is often genetic and difficult to treat. Hair loss treatments at the onset can help slow down, stop and reverse further fall out.
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