Hair Loss: Five Best Balding Myths

Yes, you are the product of your parents' genes, and male pattern balding, or androgenic alopecia is hereditary.

Biology does not mean the fate of these days, and the options available for hair restoration products, such as medical supplements - minoxidil and propecia, wigs and hair pieces and procedures such as hair transplants

If you change your parents, there's not much you can do about genetically. To set the record straight, here are 5 of the best balding myths, explaining the causes of baldness.

If I massage the scalp can help prevent hair loss.

benefits of scalp massage are rooted (pun intended) going back 5000 years in Indian Ayurvedic medicine.

Benefits include relieving the head and neck tension, and can increase the production of endorphins and serotonin, resulting in a feeling of well being.

While massaging definitely feels good and relaxing, there is no evidence that it can prevent hair loss. However, there is no downside to massage your scalp, so feel free to massage away.

The use of hair care products can cause your hair fall out, or vice versa can stop hair loss.

, of course, over-treatment with chemical straightening, bleach or relaxers or overuse of flat irons can cause permanent damage and loss of hair.

The good news is that both minoxidil and propecia have a good track record in preventing further hair loss in some cases re-grow hair. Minoxidil, a topical ointment approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be bought over the counter.

Propecia is available in pill form to men for a prescription and should not be used or handled by women because it is known to cause birth defects.

If a man's father has a full head of hair, then it will be the same.

Only if you're lucky, because scientists now believe that hair is a combination of genetic fate of both parents.

During the thinking or psychological problems can lead to baldness.

Even though the popular media images bald men as more intellectually (think: an intellectual). There is no basis in fact, the stereotype persists

If you suffer from trichotillomania (compulsive hair plucking) - rare, obsessive compulsive condition in which a person plucks out his hair, most psychological problems do not cause baldness. Trichotillomania affects 4% of the population, mostly women.

Your mother wears a balding gene from the father.

This may be part of the story. Researchers still do not fully understand what causes male pattern proćelav.Spolnih chromosomes, X and Y, or control if we are to develop as male or female. Men have an X and Y, the women have two XS.

balding genes carried on the X kromosomu.Čovjek receives one X chromosome from his mother and a Y from their father.

On the other hand, a woman gets an X from the mother and one X from their father, so look for the mother and father to see if he is bald. If so, you have 50% chance of getting the same hairless gene.

, however, scientists now believe that there May be several genes causing male pattern baldness, but so far no one has identified one other gene.

A new study, published this year in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, George Cotsarelis, MD, Chairman Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, found that stem cells play a role in explaining what happens in bald scalp.

It was found that balding may arise from problems with stem cell activation, but the number of stem cells in hair follicles.

Good news -. These results may help in the development of future IP-based treatments for male pattern balding