Sunday, February 7, 2010

Stress and Hair Loss


Cases of alopecia or hair loss have been drawing much attention of today's populace. In many of these cases, hair loss is blamed on the ever ravaging DHT coupled with the ageing process. Others of which that are momentary in nature, unless otherwise is autoimmune, are attributed to varying medical conditions and destructive lifestyles and habits. Just as these were proven, another damaging agent to impact hair loss is stress. Stress though is far more self-limiting than any other causes of hair loss; and this is occasionally labelled as Telogen Effluvium (stress-induced alopecia).

Stress is defined as "a demand upon physical or mental energy," according to the Oxford dictionary. Basically stress can either be of individual's benefit or worse, detriment -- it depends! But in far more circumstances, stress as we face it always, always comes negatively, at our expense and even feel that stress makes us face the peril of our existence. Such notions are making us live on a higher demand, making ourselves more incapable of coping with it, depriving us with relief. What we are forgetting is that stress is an everyday occurrence that involves most people at any time in their life.

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