Those who are desperate to slow down the hair loss process have probably tried every method under the sun, from scalp treatments to handfuls of daily supplements. Do they work?
No one enjoys suffering from hair loss. Dr Russell Knudsen, Australian hair transplant surgeon and founder of The Knudsen Clinic thought it was time to debunk some of the myths about hair loss.
If you've noticed your hair thinning on your upper scalp, the most likely cause is male pattern baldness (MPB) which is an inherited condition. It starts sometime after puberty because of the involvement of the male sex hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT).
Millennial men are losing their hair sooner than ever before. Typically, hair loss and balding are associated with aging, but young people are experiencing an increasing amount of hair loss.
Depending on the length of your genetically determined growth phase, you shed 50-100 hairs a day. The cycle starts again, with healthy hair replaced by healthy hair.