Causes

Malnutrition can cause hair loss by depriving your hair follicles of the protein, calories, vitamins, and minerals they need to grow healthy hair. When your body is running low on...

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.

Hair loss after surgery is common and almost always temporary. The most likely cause is telogen effluvium, a condition where the physical stress of an operation forces hair follicles into...

The early signs of balding can include a receding hairline, thinning at the crown, a widening part, or more hair than usual coming out in the shower or brush. Recognising...

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.  Vitamins and minerals nourish these...

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...

Telogen effluvium is the second most common form of hair loss after androgenetic alopecia, and one of the most alarming. It causes sudden, diffuse shedding across the scalp, typically triggered...

Does dandruff cause hair loss? The short answer is no, not directly. But the two are more connected than you might think. Persistent itching and scratching can physically damage hair...

Hair thinning is more common than most people realise, affecting women just as much as men and often starting earlier than expected. It happens when hair follicles shrink over time,...

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...