How Do You Know If Your Hair Loss Is Hereditary?
How Do You Know If Your Hair Loss Is Hereditary
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I often have people who email me and ask things like: "how can I tell if my hair loss is genetic or hereditary?;" "howcan I tell if I haveTE or AGA?;" "how do I know if I'm shedding or thinning?;"and howdo I know if or when genetic hairloss will grow back?"I'll address and answer these questions in the following article.
It's Not Just Your Mother's Father That You Have To Look At For Genetic Hair Loss, You Have To Look At Everyone In Your Family (And Sometimes No One At All): There's an old wives tale that says that balding, thinning, or genetic hair loss comes from your mom's dad. So in other words, if your maternal grandfather is bald or thinning, you're in a bad way. But, if your material grandfather had a full head of hair, you have nothing to worry about. This is not necessary true. You often see genetic hair loss in any member of your family uncles, cousins, aunts, etc. (The boys in my husband's family have extremely different hair lines. One son has hair so thick it almost looks like an Afro, while another is completely bald.My husband is somewhere in the middle and they all have the same parents.)
Sometimes, despite searching high and low, you can't find anyone in your family with genetic thinning, but yet, here you are. It's actually not at all uncommon to have DHT or androgen related hair loss (AGA) will absolutely no family history. If you spend any time in hair loss forums at all, you see this all the time. Sometimes, a person's body chemistry or hormonal fluctuations and sensitivities are individual to them.Whereas one person's follicles may be able to handle this, another's may thin in the same scenario.
How To Tell If Your Thinning Or Loss Is AGA?: Often when people ask me how to tell if their loss is genetic, what they really mean is if there hair loss is hopeless. There's a perception that AGA is permanent and lasting while other forms of hair loss (shedding, TE, medical conditions) are only temporary. This isn't necessarily the case, but genetic or androgen hair loss will often present as patterned. Often, you'll see the loss at the top of the head or at thepart line, at the bangs (for women), at the temples, and at the crown. Sometimes, AGA will also present with a shiny, reflective scalp.
However, sometimes, especially in women, the thinning or loss can be diffuse and can present as just less hair on your head or in your ponytail. And sometimes too, unhealthy, miniaturized, or weakened regrowth can contribute to overall thinning.
If My Hair Loss Is Genetic, Does This Mean I Just Have To Live With It Or That There Is No Treatment?: Often people who are researching if their loss is hereditary are concerned that if it is, this means that there's nothing that they can do about it. This isn't necessarily true. To overcome this though you'll need to lessen the androgens on your scalp and then stimulate healthy, thick regrowth.
This is a two step process which isn't always as easy as it sounds. Sometimes, the treatments meant to accomplish this only makes things worse because they change hormones and people who are susceptible to hair thinning often have troublewith this and will react to these things with a worsening of the problem. This is why I suggest that you try topicals before attempting to self treat.
How do I know all of this? Because I lived it. In my quest to end my hair loss, I looked at my triggers, my iron, my thyroid, my adrenals, my hormones, and my scalp's health. It was a long, hard, frustrating journey which all but wrecked my self esteem but I finally found something that helped quite a bit. You can reada very personal story at http://stop-hair-loss-in-women.com/
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