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Menopause and Hair Loss - What you can do

Courtesy of Lili Vieira de Carvalho

In this series of articles, I’ve been talking about Alopecia, which is the medical term for hair loss. In this post, I’d like to take a closer look at the issue of “androgenic alopecia” in women. And although menopausal hair loss, which falls into this category, is the type of hair loss that many our customers have struggled with, this is not problem that only comes with “middle age.” In fact, thinning can start as early as a woman’s teenage years. As I mention later in this post, the sooner treatment can be started to curb this thinning and loss, the better. And although hair loss during menopause is not the only kind of alopecia that women may encounter (or even the only kind of androgenic alopecia they may encounter), it is one type of women’s hair loss that Awakening’s products have had a dramatic, positive effect on.

If you are a woman going through menopause (or if you know someone who is), and you’re dealing with thinning hair as a result, it will be reassuring to know that other women in your situation have had great results using our Dead Sea Hair Loss Formula, called SCALP. I’ll be talking about how this product works in detail below.
First, a quick review.

As I discussed in my most recent post in this series, alopecia is the medical term for significant hair loss of any kind - whether as the result of disease, hormonal imbalance, stress events, or any other source. There are three main types of alopecia.

Telogen effluvium is a type of alopecia that essentially refers to “increased shedding.” The “telogen” phase of hair growth is the normal, shedding stage that represents about 10% of the hair on your head at any given time. With telogen effluvium, some event triggers a shift to a larger percentage of hair in the telogen phase. One very common cause is childbirth. In fact, this type of hair loss even has its own name - Postpartum effluvium. Other causes include a drastic change in weight, major illness, and certain types of medications. The key thing about telogen effluvium is that it is a temporary condition. Hair returns to normal without treatment.

Alopecia areata, which may affect up to 2% of the population during their lifetimes, is the result of an immune misfire in which the immune system attacks hair follicles, causing distinct patches of hair to fall out, leaving completely hair-free bald spots (and in some cases, all the hair on the head will fall out). Treatment for Alopecia Areata usually involves the injection of corticosteroids into the scalp, and the success of the treatment varies widely among patients.

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