For many people, the thought of growing older is a depressing thought. What makes even worse for some people is the thought of losing their hair.

Hair loss was once a problem that only bothered older men but nowadays more and more women and young people suffer from hair loss.

This article is about female pattern baldness and what women can do to stop it.

The trigger for male pattern baldness, also called androgenic alopecia, is DHT, a powerful sex hormone that can adversely affect the hair and prostate gland too.

The average human head has about 100,000 hair follicles; each follicle can grow about 20 individual hairs during a person\'s lifetime.

It\'s much easier to prevent the falling out of healthy hairs than to regrow hair in follicles that are already dormant.

Female hair loss is usually much more traumatic than would be the case with men losing hair. For starters, there are many men who have embraced baldness and there are those who now even readily associate it with attractiveness in men.

While a receding hairline may be easier to deal with and hopefully slow down or even reverse, localized hair loss on the other hand is a lot trickier to deal with, even for men.

This article gives the reader tips that will help with hair growth.

Hair replacement surgery, in the hands of a qualified doctor, is safe, effective, and painless. But you have to do your homework if you want to be sure of finding the right doctor.