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.
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.
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.
· 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.