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Hair Loss by the Numbers

by admin | on Sep 07, 2011 | No Comments

40% of American men experience hair loss.
25% of American women experience hair loss.
2% rank the importance of hair as one’s best feature (Eyes are #1)
75% of Americans incorrectly cite stress as the leading cause of hair loss.
35% incorrectly think wearing a hat can cause hair loss.
34% incorrectly think over-styling can cause hair loss.
95% of all hair loss cases are directly related to heredity.
50% of hair lost before people realize that they are thinning.
50% of Americans would try a healthy diet to combat thinning hair.
49% would try vitamins like Biotin.
46% would try hair thickening shampoos, conditioners and serums.
40% of married Americans would rather their spouse be overweight than bald.
45% of Americans actively have tried to hide their thinning hair.
57% say they are not physically attracted to people with thinning hair.

The Bald Report: Weekly Hair Loss and Hair Restoration News

by admin | on Sep 04, 2011 | No Comments

This week on the Web was a busy one in respect to the amount of hair loss and hair restoration news circulating. Each morning I make it a habit to scour news sites and my RSS reader in search of relevant content for Battle Against Bald. I’ll usually find at least one or two articles of new hair loss resources worth blogging about each week, but this week has been difficult because of all the choices I’ve had. For this reason I decided it would be a good idea to summarize and consolidate my finding. That said, here’s this week’s hair loss and hair restoration scoop:

  •     Is  mom to blame for male pattern baldness? – I blogged about this very topic earlier this week, but here is another authors perspective of who in the gene pool is to blame for hair loss.
  •     Balding isn’t just for men, women suffer from hair loss as well – Female pattern hair loss is on the rise, fortunately there’s almost as many hair loss treatments for women as there are for men.
  •     Wounded mice may lead to the discovery of cure for baldness – This is great news for bald men and women, but terrifying news for injured mice preferring the bald look.
  •     Mice continue to sacrifice for the sake of discovering cures for hair loss – At least they were already injured and are receiving free hair restoration. Most humans have to pay upwards of $10,000 for the treatment.
  •     Thinning hair got you down? Find out about the causes and cures of hair loss – This is probably nothing new to regular Battle Against Bald readers, but a good review nonetheless.