Medical Conditions

Probiotics and Hair Health

Probiotics and hair healthProbiotics are a term you’ve almost certainly heard over the past decade or two. They are the “good bacteria” that assist your digestive system in the breakdown and absorption of nutrients. Since good nutrition often takes a back seat to fast food and convenience, probiotics can be a useful way to reduce the more harmful impact of the modern lifestyle.

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Can a Toxic Relationship Make Your Hair Fall Out?

Can a toxic relationship make your hair fall out?The impact of a toxic relationship on a person’s mental health is well-accepted, but what do we know about how a toxic relationship affects physical health? Especially your hair? Turns out, we know a lot.

Can Toxic Relationships Affect Your Physical Health?

While our bodies may not be able to pinpoint the exact source of our stress, they do react to stress often before we recognize it. The increased stress can also impact your stress hormones (such as cortisol), and that can lead to hair loss.

Netdoctor points out, “‘Research shows that the physical effects include poor sleep, a higher risk of heart problems, high blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, obesity, weakened immune system and organ damage.”

Does Stress from Toxic Relationships Cause Hair Loss?

Yes, some women have reported that a bad relationship caused them to lose their hair and that a newfound relationship cured it.

Anabel Kingsley, a London-based trichologist and daughter of hair-growth guru Philip Kingsley, told Vogue that the link between severe emotional trauma and telogen effluvium is well-documented. The process can begin weeks or months after the event and continue indefinitely.

The resulting alopecia can cause additional emotional distress and even exacerbate the problem.

Is Hair Loss a Symptom of PTSD?

According to one study, as many as 10% of the people diagnosed with alopecia areata may have some form of PTSD. As much as 85% have some major form of trauma in their history.

So even if your toxic relationship was not so bad that it caused PTSD, the chances are it could be causing your hair loss. The problem, of course, is determining the type of hair loss you have and what is causing it.

In many toxic relationships, the stress hormones and behaviors brought on by the relationship may simply accelerate the hair loss life cycle – leading to an overall increase in shedding and no particular pattern to the hair loss. In other cases, it may trigger an immune response like alopecia areata where your immune system attacks your hair follicles.

No matter what the cause of your hair loss or thinning, reaching out to a hair loss specialist for a consultation and a hair & scalp analysis will help with peace of mind and put you on the right track to slowing or reversing your hair loss.

RHRLI Can Help Stop Hair Loss Due to Toxic Relationships

When you schedule your first visit with Robotic Hair Restoration Long Island, we will help you determine the cause of your hair loss. While we can’t necessarily extract you from that toxic relationship, we can help you identify it as the source of your hair loss.

Once we figure out the cause of your hair loss, the next step is determining a course of treatment. We can help you reduce the impact of stress-related hair loss, reverse, or even replace your lost hair. Contact us today to find out how.

What Is Oxidative Stress And What Is Its Impact on Hair Health

What is oxidative stress and what is its impact on hair healthIn passing, we’ve all heard the term “antioxidant” and probably “free radical.” But what do these terms mean?

They come up frequently in discussions about health and wellbeing after all. Free radicals are highly unstable and chemically reactive molecules produced by the body’s cells both naturally and as a response to outside stimuli. Antioxidants are substances that remove them.

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6 Ways Drinking Water Improves Hair Growth

6 ways drinking water improves hair growthThe human body is on average 55-60% water. Staying hydrated is an important part of maintaining your personal health… and that includes your hair.

When we go without water, our bodies automatically ration it so the most important parts – like the brain, kidneys, liver, and your digestive system – can all keep functioning. This means your skin and hair are among the first areas to feel the effects of dehydration, leading to hair damage and loss.

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Supplements and Hair Loss

Supplements and hair lossOverall health can impact the health of your hair. Maintaining a diet rich in the vitamins and minerals the body needs is an important part of taking care of not just the body… but also your hair. Circumstances may contribute to certain deficiencies in these vitamins and minerals, which will have an adverse effect on general hair health.

Fortunately, there are several different supplementation options available that are generally accessible. Let’s go over a few of them to better learn which vitamins and minerals are useful in treating hair loss. Of course, speak with your doctor before starting any sort of new supplement routine.

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Sexual Activity After Hair Transplant

Sexual Activity After Hair TransplantThe choice to have a hair transplant is often rooted in self-esteem. So, after proactively doing something to make yourself feel better, your sex drive may increase. That’s a good thing, right? Yes, and no.

Immediately after a hair transplant, you should refrain from intimate sexual contact with a partner for at least a week… maybe longer. So – while you may be more interested – it might be a good time to limit it to solo activities.

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Do Scalp Biopsies Help Diagnose Hair Loss?

Do scalp biopsies help diagnose hair loss?Hair thinning and loss is a reality for the vast majority of us. Not only will approximately 85% of men experience some amount of balding by the age of 50, but more than half of all women will experience noticeable hair thinning or loss in their lifetimes as well.

The largest percentage of that hair loss is male or female pattern hair loss, which is genetic. There are many other factors that can come into play as well including poor diet, illnesses, stress, and more that can contribute to hair loss.

Sometimes it can be hard to tell if we’re actually experiencing some form of hair loss early on. After all, men naturally get a more mature hairline as they age. So, what can we do to be sure that we are in fact experiencing hair loss? Are there any tests that can be done?

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Scarring Forms Of Hair Loss

Scarring Forms of Hair LossAny form of hair loss can be frustrating, upsetting, or even embarrassing. For most of us, some amount of hair loss is an unfortunate part of life to which the risk of experiencing it increases with age. While the majority of those experiencing hair loss as they get older will be tied to male or female pattern hair loss (or related to stress), there are other sources of hair loss that affect people every day.

One such form of hair loss is folliculitis decalvans. This is a type of alopecia that involves scarring in the affected area – like the scalp. So, what is it that triggers folliculitis decalvans?

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The Link Between Mental Health And Hair Loss

The link between mental health and hair lossMany of us have come to understand there are multiple factors that lead to hair loss. The most obvious of which is hereditary. If our siblings, parents, or grandparents experience male or female pattern baldness… there’s a good chance we will experience some level of that as well.

We also understand that outside environmental factors could come into play as well as certain illnesses.

While physical illnesses can certainly affect our hair health (as a result of malnourishment or our body’s own immune system mistakenly attacking our hair follicles), our mental health can affect our hair health too. But what is the link between mental health and hair loss?

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