Hairloss is something that sooner or later will effect all people, men and women, in larger or lesser degree. Some people start loosing their hair as early as 16-17 years old while others keep full hair way into life.

There are many reasons for the hair getting thinner and thinner. The outmost important factor is genetics. Diseases, stress and medication are other factors and often there is a combination of issues triggering the starting of loosing the hair.

For men facing hairloss, the reason is almost always the genetic process controlling it. The male androgen hormone, testosterone is converted to dihydrotestosterone, DHT, which will "attack" the hair follicles and make them grow weaker and shrink together – producing eventually a non growing follicle.

For women there is no single factor responsible for the hair getting thinner and thinner. Most often there are a combination of factors contributing – in most case including genetics but not always. The level of different hormones in females and the change of concentrations over time have a great impact of the hair growth. Lack of iron and thyroid deficiency are other common issues for women.

Common for all is the great pain of loosing the hair. Many suffer from lack of self-esteem and urge to isolate themselves, to ovoid people. Many are also filled with shame – especially among women where people traditionally do not expect to see hairloss. Historically hairloss has always been treated as a mail problem, even though there are no real differences between the sexes.

Many times there are ways to change the negative trend of loosing the hair. There are different treatments that could help – including laser, mesotherapy or different kinds of products, like vitamins. All these can affect the rate and degree of hairloss and eventually make the hair grow back. If a person has lost too much hair a hairpiece or a wig could be the solution – or even a hair transplant.

Commonly for all treatments is the fact that you sooner you start the treatment after realizing the hairloss problem the better are the chances of success with the treatment. Waiting too long is common but then people will stand lesser chance of positive results from the treatment – or worse – no result. This fact goes for both men and women.

There are also drugs to use, Rogaine (active substance is minoxidil) and this works good for both men and women. Propecia (active substance is finasteride) is of today only available for men because of risks in relation to pregnancies for women. Approximately 70-80 percent of people taking these drugs get a positive result within 4-8 months. Both these drugs come from research involving different parts of the body and also comes with some side effects. Possible libido being the most important. But the most negative issue being the lifelong use of the drug which is mandatory. If one quits using the drugs the gained effect will be lost in as short as three months.

Research in the area of hairloss is intense around the globe. Results have been produced in many Universities and different genetic DNA sequences have been discovered that affects hair growth. This summer in USA a large research team also discovered some fundamental issues for solving the mystery of Alopecia Areata, the decease also called patchy hairloss. It is an autoimmune decease affecting huge numbers of people worldwide, including lots of young children.

So mankind will eventually see much progress in the area of hairloss in the coming years and hopefully there will be a cure in 10-20 years from now.