Causes

Malnutrition happens when your body doesn’t get the nutrients and energy it needs to thrive. Maybe you’re not eating enough. Or you might have an illness that’s preventing your body...

Killing a bit of hair to kill (or control) a malignant tumour seems like a fair trade. But that doesn’t make the prospect of hair loss any easier to deal...

When you pull your hair and it falls out easily, clumps coming away from the scalp, the default reaction is panic. That’s completely normal but probably not necessary. In most...

Stress hair loss isn’t about the everyday stresses of life and work. It’s about a stress so severe or prolonged that it shocks the body into shutting down hair production.

Whether you’re heading into surgery or recovering from it, the last thing you should be worrying about is your hair falling out. It seems hard to fathom. After everything you’ve...

If you’re wondering what the early signs of balding are, it’s a good sign. It means that if you do have hair loss, you’ve caught it in its earliest stages....

The causes of androgenetic alopecia (or androgenic alopecia) are genetics and aging. Specifically, it happens when a hormone called dihydrotestosterone shrinks sensitive hair follicles, limiting their ability to grow hair....

As one of the most metabolically active parts of our body, our hair follicles can be a good indication of what’s going on inside us. Our follicles need nutrients to...

Hair loss and cancer — or rather, cancer treatments — often go hand in hand. After all, hair loss is a recognisable side effect of cancer therapies like chemotherapy and...

Anagen effluvium is a type of hair loss that can result in total (or near total) balding. It’s commonly caused by cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation but it’s usually...

When Deb Jones began suddenly losing handfuls of her thick hair after each wash, she couldn’t believe it. Her hair grew so thin that she hid it beneath hats and thought she...

Dandruff can be a distressing condition for anybody. For some people, it’s up there with hair loss — which makes it especially disconcerting when people start connecting hair loss to...

We get it. You’d probably rather be reading about something other than why your hair is thinning right now. But if you’ve noticed that your hair is thinning out, it’s...

This August, we’re ready to raise awareness of the hairy truth: male pattern baldness affects up to 1 in every 2 men over 40 while about 49% of women will experience hair loss at...

A study by the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology has recently uncovered an interesting discovery relating to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. It seems that hair loss and COVID-19 symptoms might very...