Autoimmune Disease and Hair Loss
When you are diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, it can feel like everything changes. Some – like Crohn’s disease – absolutely require that you change the way you eat. Other autoimmune issues (like Lupus) can make it feel as though just getting out of bed is an accomplishment. Still others, like alopecia areata and psoriasis, […]
What Is Anagen Effluvium?
From research and observation, we know a lot about hair growth. We know there are multiple stages of hair growth and that while we may think all our hair is growing at the same time… that just isn’t true. Typically, hair has a four-to-seven-year lifecycle with the anagen phase lasting between three and five years, […]
Excessive Sweating and Hair Loss
Sweating can be great for your scalp as it helps your body eliminate impurities. In fact, some amounts of sweating may even help stop hair loss. But excessive sweating can cause hair loss. Confused yet? It’s simple yet complex all at the same time. When we exercise and our bodies sweat, the reaction is natural […]
Hair Loss And Aging
Many people associate thinning hair with aging, but we may be blaming age for something that is completely genetic. Age-related hair loss may be a factor of a lot of different things that tend to happen as we age, but not be specifically age-related. For example, how many of us have noticed that our older […]
Does Smoking Cause Hair Loss?
Smoking damages your skin, your heart, and leads to cancer in your lungs… so it should be no surprise that smoking is also a factor in some forms of hair loss. The myriads of ways that smoking affects the body are seemingly endless – it removes elasticity in the skin, it can lead to skin […]
Supplements And Hair Loss
Many people like to discount the role that nutrition, specifically what we eat, has in our overall well-being. But the simple truth is that getting that proper nutrition is vital to all aspects of human health – including your hair. Some of those people also do not understand that supplements, by the very nature of […]
The Link Between Mental Health & Hair Loss
Mental health issues can definitely mess with our body image and some mental health conditions can also actively change the way we look. It’s no secret that medical conditions like poor nutrition, thyroid disease, and various autoimmune conditions can affect your looks by impacting the health and condition of your skin and hair. But many […]
What Is Telogen Effluvium?
Telogen effluvium sounds a lot like something you might get diagnosed with on a super technological science fiction television show set in the far future. In reality, it is really just a fancy way of saying that you’re experiencing hair loss as a result of dietary deficiency, a medication side effect, or a non-scarring autoimmune […]
Can Dieting Cause Hair Loss?
One of the most frustrating things that can happen when you start working on your health is to find an unexpected, and negative, side effect. It’s like taking up tennis to improve your cardio health and then getting tennis elbow. It’s worse when the two things do not seem to be related on the surface. […]
What’s Normal Shedding?
Anyone who has ever owned a cat or a dog knows that shedding is a normal part of pet ownership. But did you know it is also a normal part of the life cycle of your own hair? According to the National Institutes of Health, the hair life cycle looks like this: “The hair cycle […]