Bald Fact: New Gene in Hair Loss – Non Hormonal Treatment from

This news may lead to a hope for better hair loss treatment we are looking for.  A new gene involved in hair growth was identified by the investigators from Columbia, Rockefeller and Stanford Universities in the April 15 issue of Nature. This discovery may affect future research and treatments for men pattern baldness and other forms of hair loss.

The researchers found that the gene, called APCDD1, which causes a progressive form of hair loss beginning in childhood (known as hereditary hypotrichosis simplex). The disease is caused by a phenomenon called hair follicle miniaturization -- the same key feature of male pattern baldness. When hair follicles go through this miniaturization process, they shrink or narrow, causing the thick hair on the head to be replaced by thin, fine hair, known as "peach fuzz."

What is Female Pattern Hair Loss, Cause and Treatment

When is the first time you notice that the pony tails begin smaller? If you are thinking that you may have hair loss problem, keep noticing that your hair is thinner mainly on the top and crown of the scalp or not. If yes, you may have female pattern hair loss.

While pattern hair loss affects both men and women, hair thinning in women is different from that of male pattern baldness. Female-pattern hair loss is not characterized by a receding hairline or bald spot on top of the scalp as is common in men. In women, the frontal hairline remains, but there is visible thinning over the crown.  The hair loss rarely progresses to total or near total baldness, as it may in men.  

Cause of Hair Loss – Are You Sure You Know it

It is always a mystery for many people who just find out that their hairs are less and less or thinner and thinner.  Welcome to the new world of hair loss sufferer. For the beginners, it is our pleasure to introduce you hair loss society.  Well, do you know cause of hair loss?

Let’s begin the episode one for popular reasons of hair loss, hair fall and baldness.

Hair Disorders :  Hair disorder is usually thought as the first reason of baldness.

Hereditary thinning or baldness. (androgenetic alopecia)  This is the most common cause of hair loss of men and women in the United States. A receding hairline and hair loss on top of the scalp for men is found in men more than women.