Hair Loss Facts

The most prominent hair loss facts that a layman should know :

This single fact should motivate men to take action before it is too late.

According to figures extrapolated from data gathered by the International Society of hair Restoration Surgery, more than 811,000 men and women seek either surgical and/ or non-surgical methods of hair restoration.

According to a research conducted by the scientists of GlaxoSmithKline, unknown genetic variants in the male chromosomes increase the chances of hair loss.

Hair loss can be accelerated by poor nutrition; the reason for which anorexic and bulimic people lose their hair fast, as their bodies cannot replenish the nutrition that is essentially required for a healthy hair cover.

Nothing happens all of a sudden. And hair loss is also no exception to it. Two-thirds of most men will experience some hair loss by the time they hit 35, and by they reach 50, 85% of the guys will have some thinning hair.

Earlier people use to believe only a single parent (usually the father) is responsible for passing down the traits of hair thinning genes. Modern marvels of science, however, has made a reassuring effort for debunking this long held erroneous notion, as today we know hair loss is the trait that can be acquired from either parent.

Unlike the transplantations shown in movies and televisions, hair transplantation has come a very long way and has helped a lot of guys over the years to gain hair and happiness; so much advanced the transplantations are nowadays, it is very difficult to tell who had it and who had not.