Crash Dieting Can Cause Hair Loss In Women

When you look at men and women and eating, the numbers show that women suffer from eating disorders much more than men and conditions such as bulimia and / or anorexia can wreak havoc on a woman's body.

Any time you starve your body or as some like to call it "crash diet" you are not only denying yourself food you're also denying your body the nutrients it needs to function properly.

One result is the starvation of hair follicles resulting in follicle death which basically means that when one hair falls out as part of a normal growth cycle (we naturally lose 50-150 hairs a day) the follicle cannot re-grow new hair the way it should.

When hair follicles go dormant they no longer produce, leading to thinning hair.

Medications And Hair Loss

Certain medications, especially those high in Vitamin A can cause hair loss in women. If you are suffering hair loss and are currently taking a new medication such as a thyroid or hypertension pill you may find that these meds are directly related to your hair loss.

Changes In Hormones Can Cause Hair Loss

When a woman's hormones change many different parts of the body are affected. Female conditions such as pregnancy and poly cystic ovarian disorder (PCOD) have been known to cause hair loss in women. Birth control is also another common medication that carries the side effect of thinning hair.

For millions of women worldwide female pattern baldness is a reality. Whether your hair is thinning all over or from only the front of your scalp there are herbal hair loss treatments that can restore your body to it's natural state that replenish and restore your hair follicles into a healthy state.