When does androgenetic alopecia begin in women?

• Androgenetic alopecia affects not only men, but also women.
• Androgens, male sex hormones, meet sensitive hair follicles.
• Miniating the hair follicles and its hair, the hair density, especially on the middle parting, is visible.
• Their full effect unfolds and androgenetic alopecia in women at the beginning of menopause around 50 when large hormonal changes occur.

Hair loss in men can be used in most cases as one androgenetic alopecia (literally: "hairlessness as a result of male hormones"). Women are also not spared by androgenetic alopecia; However, the creeping hair loss appears much more slowly.

Androgenetic alopecia in women

Androgenetic alopecia or an asset -related hair loss begins in affected women at the age of 30. Hair lighting can be very discreet and confused with diffuse hair loss. The hair does not get any less at first, but they no longer reach the full length. With good styling products and the right hairstyle, hair loss can be well balanced over a long time.
The whole force of the androgenetic alopecia is around 50 at the beginning of the Menopause Noticeable when a hormone -like weight is created in the female organism. Fewer female sex hormones (estrogens) Then there are more male sex hormones (DHT). As a result, many hair follicles, i.e. h. The renewable hair does not grow larger than fluff hair.

Alopezie or hair loss

The dermatological concept of alopezie is very often equated with hair loss. But that is not entirely correct. An alopecia is the result of an effluvium increased by the standard (lat. Hair loss) and means hairlessness. The alopecia can be temporary or permanently. Doctors therefore differentiate between reversible alopecia, in which the hair grows again and irreversible, scarring alopecia due to damage or destruction of the hair follicles in the scalp, which ultimately lead to hair loss or baldness. If the hair follicles are intact, there is always the possibility that the hair will grow back. More …

Diagnosis of androgenetic alopecia

In contrast to androgenetic alopecia in men, where clearly defined areas of hairlessness arise (receding reciprocal, tonsur), hair in women during menopause in the apex region becomes light. Thin hair is a feeling at first. You can also measure the declining hair density exactly. The examination of the dermatologist brings certainty with a magnifying glass, vacant microscope (dermatoscope) and, above all, with a trichoscan.

Miscarried hair follicles

What happens to androgenetic alopecia? In the vertex region there are genetically incorrectly wrong hair follicles, the androgen receptors of which are increasingly sensitive to dyhydrotestosterone (DHT), the most biologically active form of the male sex hormone testosterone. The consequence is overturning the hair cycle: the number of hair in the growth phase (anagen hair) decreases; The number of hair that is repelled by the hair follicle (teloge hair) increases.

Treatment of the assistant hair loss

The treatment of weakened hair follicles also aims to reverse the shortening of the hair cycle pharmacologically and to block the influence of androgens on the hair root. A logical idea is to compensate for the lack of estrogen by taking hormones. Women before menopause is often prescribed the ropes of anti -Bab. When using estrogen combination preparations for hormonal contraception or hormone replacement therapy, the treating doctors make sure that the strange in the recipe does not cause hair loss. However, more and more affected women also want alternative active ingredients that do not intervene in any hormonally controlled metabolic processes.

Wanted: active ingredients without side effects - thiocyanate

An active ingredient that strengthens the hair root and protects it compared to growth -stinging factors is the natural Molecule thiocyanate. The patented Thiocyanate activity of the Thiocyn hair serum promotes cell division directly on the hair root, where hair growth takes place.