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  • Friday, November 2, 2007

    Women and hair loss

    Are you losing your hair? Is your hair thinning? According to a multitude of advertisements -- you can have longer, thicker hair in just two weeks! The advertisements for treatment of balding, and hair loss in men are hard to miss. These ads might lead one to believe that hair loss is generally a men's issue.

    However the fact is that as many as two-thirds of all women experience hair loss at some point. The role of estrogen in hair growth in humans is not clear. However both oral and topical estrogens are prescribed by physicians to treat hair loss in women -- although there are no controlled studies to support this use of estrogen. Always check with your doctor.

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