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Common Baldness and Normal Hair Loss In Men And Women

Normal hair loss is a process that occurs in both men and women.  The hair on your head is in either a growth state or a resting state.  Normally, 90% of your hair is growing and the other 10% is resting.  After 8 – 12 weeks, the resting hair will fall out.  It does not fall out at once; you lose hair everyday as a part of this process.  This is normal hair loss. 

After brushing your hair, the fallen hair may like a lot when it is in the brush.  You do not have to worry about it unless you see more skin than usual beneath your hair or if it is sudden or unlike any baldness pattern that may already in your family. 

Androgenetic Alopecia

Genetic balding patterns occur in both men and women.  Men are more prone to the syndrome.  The formal name for a baldness pattern in men or women is androgenetic alopecia.  It is also called alopecia or common baldness.  In this condition, the hair follicles shrink to a miniature size and the hair tract can eventually quit growing hair.

Even if a person is aware that common baldness runs in the family, it does not lessen the blow when partial or whole baldness sets in.  Even the most confident person can feel somewhat let down when their hair falls out.  For many people, it is a mini disaster. 

Hair And Self Image

Hair is such a large part of self-image that it is considered normal to spend a certain amount of time each day devoted to your hair.  When people lose their hair, they are faced with the problem almost as soon as they get up.  Common baldness can cause people to run from the mirror to running after a cure, remedy or cover up for the baldness.

Common baldness has driven people to seek out solutions to hair loss.  This has been an ancient desire and there are folkloric and herbal remedies for normal hair loss that have been handed down for an unknown length of time.  Unscrupulous persons have been also known to see ‘snake oil’ products to those desperate enough to buy them. 

The search for normal hair loss solutions continues today and it is possible for people who suffer from hair loss to have several options for solutions to match their lifestyle and budget.  Normal hair loss has inspired great inventions and innovations in the hair loss industry.