Although more likely found in men, female hair loss is quite a common problem too, and if hair loss for men can cause self consciousness you can multiply that a 100 times when it come to thinning hair in women. Lets have a look at the subject in a bit more detail:-

The technical term for female hair loss is androgenetic alopecia and figures for women suffering from this are surprisingly high with approximately one in four women suffering from this in one form or another.If you learn a little more about your hair cycle then you will start to have a better idea to answer your question are you actually going bald?

The hair grows in cycles and it works out that at ninety percent of the hair is growing and ten percent is in the resting phase at any one time, during the resting phase it is perfectly normal for you to shed hair. You can always do a test to see if you are losing more hair than you should be and that is by getting say twenty strands of hair between thumb and forefinger and then slowly but firmly tug them. If half a dozen or more come out then that is a sign you may be losing your hair.

So what causes hair loss in women? Well there can be many factors including things like stress or diet, but probably the biggest one is hormonal.There is a hormone called DHT which is thought to be responsible for hair loss. DHT is caused by an excess of testosterone in the body, for men this is a natural occurrence but for women it is a cause of unbalance. The unbalance occurs because normally the estrogen in a woman controls testosterone but if a woman has just had a child or is menopausal then the estrogen level will be low and this can result in DHT and hair loss.

So can anything be done to prevent it? Well there are options out there such as prescription drugs and hair transplants, but more and more people are wanting to look at natural and effective remedies to help control their hair loss and I cover these and more on the site that is all about how to prevent hair loss.