Stress and Hair Loss: What Are The Causes of Hair Loss?
If your hair is thinning or falling out, you are probably anxious to find out why. Is hair loss due to stress, heredity, or some other factor? The answer is “yes” to all three. The following are some types of hair loss, with information about each: Normal Hair Loss: We all lose about 100 hairs per day, out of the 100,000 contained by the average scalp. This is due to a few factors: • Lifespan: The average lifespan of a single hair is 4.5 years; the hair then falls out and is replaced within 6 months by a new hair. • Styling: Shampooing, blow drying, and brushing hair can all cause a few hairs to fall out; most of us do this regularly. • Aging: After the age of 30 (and often before), men and women both start losing hair, though men tend to do so at a faster rate. Hereditary Hair Loss: Genetic hair loss isn’t due to excessive amounts of hair falling out, as many believe, but to an insufficient amount of hairs growing back to replace the hairs that ha
