Hair Growth Remedies

Meidam explained that all hair on the head is in one of three phases of growth, with 80 percent of the hair actually growing from the follicles, 10 percent no longer growing, and the last 10 percent in the process of falling out the hair collected in hairbrushes or in shower drains. It is normal, she said, for a person to lose about 100 hairs a day. However, in the case of male pattern baldness, Meidam said, the activity of certain male hormones causes the hair to enter the last phase early, with the result that more than 10 percent of hair is being shed. This also happens in women after menopause, when certain male hormones normally present in women have an effect on the hair. It is Meidam’s belief, however, that the whole process of male pattern baldness need not occur as soon as it often does in a person’s life, and she believes, she says, that proper nutrition, minimal stress and good haircare products are the key to retarding hair loss. It has been well documented, she said, that hair loss can occur suddenly after a stressful incident, such as a severe fright. But it is not as wellknown that the more commonplace stresses of life also can cause hair to fall out, ever so gradually. And that is the kind of loss she seeks to prevent. For example, she said, if a man, say one in his 20s or 30s, comes to her with a receding hairline, and tells her that he expects to be bald one day because his father and grandfather both lost most of their hair, she will ask him about his own life and about his forebears. She may find that he is unhappy with his job or his marriage. And furthermore, she said, she may discover that his father served in World War II and endured shelling and Bombing, and that the grandfather was in World War I and lived through the horrors of frontline fighting in that war. Genetics, she suggested, may have little to do with the young man’s thinning hair. He may, instead, simply be the third generation in his family to undergo some kind of severe stress.