Menopause And Hair Loss

Menopause causes many biochemical changes in your body and often menopause and hair loss occur simultaneously. Rather menopause causes hair loss in women. Although women rarely turn bald due to menopause and hair loss, it occurs mainly as thinning of hair. Before menopause, high estrogen levels negate the effects of low testosterone levels. However, during menopause, higher testosterone levels combine with enzyme 5 alpha reductase to form DHT, the main cause for thinning of hair in women.



Statistics on Menopause and Hair Loss



More than twenty-five million American women experience emotional distress due to menopause and hair loss. Only thirteen percent of women experience hair loss before menopause. However, this increases to View the rest of this article