The obsessive, compulsive, and seemingly involuntary tugging and pulling of one’s own hair is a perplexing condition with complex solutions.

With so much social attention on healthy, lustrous hair, it might be hard for most of us to grasp the trichotillomania, one of the more troublesome hair loss conditions. It involves the chronic, compulsive-obsessive behavior of…

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This para-medical approach to treating hair loss might well be a first step in addressing baldness. It’s a holistic way of keep your hair “up there.”



The things that can cause hair loss – genetics, toxins, medications, illnesses, grooming techniques, stress, and mental illness – illustrate how multifactorial hair loss can be. And, it shows us how some medical as well as non-medical specialists (such as your hair stylist), may not have the best qualifications to diagnose thinning hair… Continue

More women acknowledge the relatively common problem of female hair thinning and loss than ever before, perhaps because now there are treatments.

A number of female celebrities have begun to come out as people who have hair loss in recent years. That includes Arianna Grande, Tyra Banks, Viola Davis, Rosie O’Donnell, Sarah Hyland, and Jada Pinkett Smith – almost all in careers where appearance is an essential part of their business.

In most cases…

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