“Patients who come to the hair clinic because they have hair problems and receive treatments about the hair.” This sentence may not sound strange. But if we read carefully and between the lines, it is not 100% true. Not every hair problem is caused by or based on the hair itself. For a very common example, a female patient who has problems with hair fall after childbirth, is it fall because of the problem of the hair itself? The answer is obviously no.

Hair is an organ that requires enormous amounts of energy to maintain its function and survival because of its growing rate and also requires many vitamins, minerals, growth factors, hormones and many other things. So, if there is something wrong about our body that depletes storage energy or disrupts our body significantly. Hair is one of the organs that is listed at the top to be cut to save other organs. Therefore, hair fall can be one of the early signs of many diseases. In our hair wellness center, we chose some of most common causes of hair fall, hormonal imbalance, and heavy metal intoxication

Hormonal imbalance is one of the common causes of the hair fall. The hormones that play role in hair fall or hair loss other than DHT(Dihydrotestosterone) and other androgens that cause androgenetic alopecia (AGA) are including lots of hormone such as thyroid hormone, estrogen, growth hormone, Insulin, and Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF), prolactin, melatonin, and cortisol. But the hormones that significantly can cause hair loss are thyroid hormone and cortisol.

The thyroid hormone is believed to be responsible for regulating the hair cycle’s frequency. Hypothyroidism causes a decrease in anagen frequency, whereas hyperthyroidism causes thin hairs. For cortisol, hair loss has become more common in women and young people, and it is thought that stresses, rather than genetic factors, are to blame. As a result, accumulating data on the impact of stress is critical for hair loss treatment. The association between stress hormones and hair loss, on the other hand, is poorly understood. Cortisol is recognized to affect the function and cyclic regulation of the hair follicle. High levels of cortisol are linked to a decrease in the formation and early breakdown of hair follicle and associated with inhibit hair shaft elongation.

For heavy metals, such as lead, cadmium, mercury, and aluminum, can affect hair growth. The toxins have a negative interfere with hormones, strip the body of nutrients, and can even damage the actual hair follicle, resulting in excessive hair shedding and impaired hair growth.

For the treatments of both reason of hair loss, our hair wellness center provides specific treatment to treat the cause directly, not just alleviate the symptoms. Concisely, for hormonal imbalance, we start with hormone panel check-up and questionnaire that design to investigate the real disease, then act by treat the real culprit that cause hair loss or referral to endocrinologist, and for heavy metal intoxication, we start with check their level and treat by process to excrete these toxins called chelation. With these, now we can complete medical treatment for the whole curable cause of hair loss, make we can proudly called ourself hair wellness center.