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Hair Loss
Hair
Loss, Baldness
Causes for Hair Loss
Standard Remedies for Hair Loss |
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If you're a typical adult, you have about 100,000 hairs
on your head. And you're not willing to part with a single one of them.
Yet once your hair starts to thin, there's little Western medicine can
do. Except in cases caused by radiation treatments, scalp infections or
severe stress, hair loss in men and women is hereditary and permanent.
Only one prescription product, minoxidil, has won approval as a hair loss
cure. And it doesn't work for everyone, especially when there is actual
baldness rather than thinning. The natural remedies in this chapter, used
with the approval of your doctor, may help slow hair loss or increase
hair growth, according to some health professionals.
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See Your Medical Doctor When...
· Your hair loss is rapid.
· You experience hair loss after taking high doses of vitamins,
such as vitamin A.
· Your hair loss accompanies other problems, such as hypothyroidism
or malnutrition.
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| Aromatherapy
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To stimulate the scalp, try a blend of bay and lavender
essential oils, suggests: Acharyaji . He says to add six drops of each
oil to four ounces of warm carrier oil (almond, soybean and sesame are
popular carrier oils; all are sold in most health food stores). Massage
the mixture into the scalp and allow it to absorb for 20 minutes, she
says, then wash with your regular shampoo, to which you've added three
drops of bay essential oil.
For information on preparing and administering essential oils, including
cautions about their use, see webpage.
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| Food Therapy
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For women, thinning hair or hair loss can be a sign of
a problem in the gastrointestinal tract, says Acharyaji, Occasionally,
it's a sign of insufficient stomach acids or that she's not absorbing
protein, zinc and other nutrients," he says. If she takes acidophilus
after meals for a month or so, that often helps Acharyaji recommends nondairy
powdered acidophilus, available in most health food stores. He says to
take two tablets between meals (four to six tablets per day) for at least
two months.
For men, Acharyaji says that a low-fat diet may help slow down the balding
process. "On some level, male pattern baldness might be tied to increased
testosterone levels during puberty, which are often the result of a high-fat
diet or eating too many animal products," says Acharyaji. "If
you look at Japan, male pattern baldness was almost unheard of prior to
World War II. The Japanese diet is now far more fatty and Westernized,
and Japanese men are going bald everywhere. It's clear that a high-fat,
meat-based diet raises testosterone levels, and that may adversely affect
hair follicles. I'm not sure eating low-fat foods will stop hair loss,
but it might slow it down
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| Massage
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Giving your scalp a three-minute massage each day may
increase blood flow to your hair follicles and help hair growth, says
Acharyaji. He suggests using your fingertips to gently rub all over your
scalp. Don't be too rough; vigorous pulling or brushing can actually pull
hair out of your head.
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