Baldness Linked to Pollution and Smoking!

The human head comes equipped with 100,000 tiny hair follicles, from each of which grow a single hair.

Studies have been found that pollution may call hair loss.

The University of London, has linked the onset of male pattern baldness, to environmental factors, such as pollution and smoking.

Women had been noted as losing hair on their crown, where men lose hair at their temples or hair line. I always thought this was because of cologne and shaving cream…clogging up the pores or killing the hair root.

Of course, there’s undoubtedly genetics involved as well, but now we know there are environmental factors too. If you live in a place with cleaner air, you might be at less risk.

According to the British Association of Dermatologists, hereditary hair loss, or androgenetic alopecia, is responsible for 95 per cent of hair loss and is seen in men and women.

The bottom line is that Scientists believe toxins and carcinogens found in polluted air can stop hair growing by blocking mechanisms that produce the protein from which hair is made. Baldness is known to be hereditary, but the new research suggests that environmental factors could exacerbate hair loss.

So, I would think that the ticket would be do not smoke, live where there is cleaner air and keep your hair clean.

Personally…I like blad men and women. I think that most look sexy. Be yourselves, it is easier!

If I ever go bald again, I think I will just wear beautiful scaves to keep my head from getting sunburned! I have lost my hair twice. And as a child my family always called me 9 hairs…and they say that it is children, that are cruel…

~The Baby Boomer Queen