The Role of Hormones in Hair Fall and How to Manage It

Hair fall is a widespread concern that affects individuals across various age groups and genders. While losing some hair daily is a natural part of the hair growth cycle, excessive hair fall can be alarming and may indicate underlying health issues or environmental factors.

Hair fall, a common concern affecting both men and women, can often be traced back to hormonal imbalances. Understanding how hormones influence hair growth and loss is essential in developing effective strategies to manage and treat hair fall. This article delves into the role of hormones in hair fall and explores how homeopathy can offer a natural and holistic approach to treatment.

Hormones and Hair Fall: The Connection
Hormones play a pivotal role in regulating the hair growth cycle. The primary hormones involved in hair health include:
• Androgens: These male hormones, including testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT), are known to cause hair thinning and loss, especially in individuals genetically predisposed to androgenetic alopecia (pattern baldness). High levels of DHT shrink hair follicles, leading to shorter, thinner hair strands.
• Estrogens: These female hormones generally promote hair growth and lengthen the growth phase (anagen phase) of the hair cycle. However, a significant drop in estrogen levels, such as during menopause, can lead to increased hair shedding and thinning.
• Thyroid Hormones: An imbalance in thyroid hormones, particularly hypothyroidism (low thyroid hormone levels) or hyperthyroidism (high thyroid hormone levels), can disrupt the hair growth cycle, causing hair to become dry, brittle, and prone to falling out.
• Cortisol: Known as the stress hormone, elevated cortisol levels can lead to telogen effluvium, a condition where hair follicles prematurely enter the resting phase, resulting in diffuse hair shedding.

Managing Hormonal Hair Fall
Effective management of hormonal hair fall involves addressing the underlying hormonal imbalances. Here are some strategies:
• Medical Treatment: Hormonal hair loss may require medical intervention. For instance, doctors may prescribe medications or hormone replacement therapy (for women) to regulate hormone levels and promote hair growth.
• Diet and Nutrition: A balanced diet rich in vitamins and minerals, particularly biotin, zinc, and iron, supports healthy hair growth. Foods high in antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids can also help reduce inflammation and support overall hair health.
• Stress Management: Reducing stress through techniques such as yoga, meditation, and regular exercise can lower cortisol levels, thereby minimizing stress-related hair fall.
• Lifestyle Changes: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including adequate sleep, hydration, and avoiding excessive use of hair styling products, can positively impact hair health.

How Diet and Nutrition Impact Hair Health
Healthy hair is often seen as a sign of overall well-being and vitality. While genetics, age, and hormonal changes significantly affect hair health, diet and nutrition also play crucial roles. Proper nourishment is essential for maintaining hair strength, growth, and luster

Dietary Tips for Healthy Hair
• Eat a Balanced Diet: Ensure your diet includes a variety of foods to provide all the essential nutrients for hair health.
• Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of water to keep your hair and scalp hydrated. Dehydration can make hair dry and prone to breakage.
• Avoid Crash Diets: Rapid weight loss from crash diets can lead to nutrient deficiencies and hair loss. Aim for gradual, sustainable weight loss if needed.
• Limit Processed Foods: Foods high in sugar, unhealthy fats, and preservatives can negatively impact hair health. Focus on whole, nutrient-dense foods instead.

Homeopathy for Hormonal Hair Fall
Homeopathy, a holistic approach to medicine, offers individualized treatment for hair fall by addressing the root cause of the problem. Homeopathic remedies aim to restore hormonal balance and stimulate the body’s natural healing processes.

Dr Gayathri Vadapalli
Savi Bindu
Homeopathy & Aesthetics Clinic
Ph : +91 96119 96600 / 96119 96611
Ph: +91 80 7965 7776
www.savibindu.com

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Only those who suffer from migraine know how painful it is. You can’t think, you can’t work, and you just can’t function. The only thing you feel like doing is pulling out all your hair in desperation, hoping that somehow that throbbing in your head would stop.

Migraines are severe, recurring, and painful headaches, usually one-sided and are often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, blurred vision and/or intolerance to light or sound. The paralyzing nature of migraines, often disrupt normal daily activities. They affect the quality of your life, your performance in school, work and personal life too.

What causes Migraine headache?

The exact cause of migraine is still a mystery, many possible theories are put forth but none are able to establish concrete basis of migraine causation.

There are multiple factors that can trigger Migraine in susceptible people:

1. Environmental: : These include aspects such as high temperatures, high level of humidity, high intensity light, varying weather conditions, etc
2. Lifestyle: Poor food practice like skipping meals, often fasting, overwhelming particular types of cheese, chocolates, food with Monosodium glutamate, or fermented foods, can cause Migraine.
3. Genetic: Research has proved that about 90% Migraine are due to genetics, that is, have a family member who is also a sufferer.
4. Nervous disorder: If a person is suffering from neurological disorder like Epilepsy or Alzheimer, then there is high chance of Migraine triggering.
5. Abnormality in brain: Abnormality of chemicals present in the brain, like serotonin, is a common phenomenon with the kind of lifestyle we head now. This can be another reason for triggering a Migraine.
6. Medications: Occasionally chemical composition of certain medications may not go well for some of the body nature.
7. Sensory stimuli: Migraine can sometimes be triggered with bright lights, too loud sounds; particular types of smells from perfumes, cigarettes or even paint can trigger off the pain.

Types of Migraine

There are two main types of migraine. This classification depends on whether the individual experiences or not, any warning signs in the form of disturbances of the senses leading up to a migraine. These are known as auras.

Migraine with aura

For many people with migraine, the auras act as a warning signs, telling them that a headache is soon to come. The effects of an aura can include:

• confusing thoughts or experiences
• the perception of strange, sparkling or flashing lights
• zig-zagging lines in the visual field
• blind spots or blank patches in the vision
• pins and needles in an arm or leg
• difficulty speaking
• stiffness in the shoulders, neck, or limbs
• unpleasant smells etc

Migraine without aura

More commonly, a person will experience a migraine without any sensory disturbance leading up to the attack. Around 70 and 90 % of migraines happen without an aura.

Other types

There are other types of migraine related to specific syndromes or triggers, including:

• Chronic migraine: This refers to any migraine that triggers attacks on over 15 days of the month.
• Menstrual migraine: This is when the attacks occur in a pattern connected to the menstrual cycle.
• Hemiplegic migraine: This causes weakness on one side of the body for a temporary period.
• Abdominal migraine: This is a syndrome that connects migraine attacks to irregular function in the gut and abdomen. It mainly occurs in children under 14 years of age,
• Migraine with brain stem aura: This is a rare type of migraine that can trigger severe neurological symptoms, such as affected speech.

Different phases of Migraine

Migraines have four distinct phases: Prodrome, Aura, Headache, Postdrome. Not everyone will experience a headache in these 4 phases and the duration and nature of each phase differs in every individual. The part most people are familiar with is the third phase, which is the most painful.

Symptoms of Migraine

Migraines occur most often in adults between the ages of 25 and 55, and they are three times more common in women than men. Although not all migraines are the same, typical symptoms include:

• Moderate to severe pain, usually confined to one side of the head but capable of occurring on either side of the head
• Severe, throbbing, or pulsing pain
• Fatigue
• Dizziness
• Increasing pain during physical activity or when straining
• Inability to perform regular activities due to pain
• Feeling sick and physically vomiting
• Increased sensitivity to light and sound, relieved by lying quietly in a darkened room

Some people experience other symptoms such as sweating, temperature changes, stomach ache, and diarrhea.

The impact of migraine

People with chronic migraines report a lower quality of life. They often have sleep troubles, miss days at work and school because of headaches, land up backing out of social engagements often and tend to have lesser energy and zest than those who do not suffer from migraines. So large is the effect of chronic migraine on some people that they actually live in worry and fear of the next attack. They tend to curb their activities, eat cautiously or be on the edge in anticipation of a migraine attack.

It is almost like they are unable to live their life to the fullest. Their relationships also tend to suffer because of this ailment. Their partners, family members and friends often feel irritated or annoyed by this health problem. Stress and misunderstandings build-up in relationships when the other partner in unable to understand the severity of the ailment and it also affects the spontaneity in relationships. Occasionally, if the migraines are too severe, it can even push the person towards developing depression.

How to prevent Migraine?

The Migraine headache may last for about 4 hrs to 72 hrs. It is episodic and can get as recurrent as occurring every day.

• Identify the triggering factors and try to stay away from them.
• Try to keep your blood sugar levels normal. Have small meals throughout the day and avoid staying hungry for long duration of time.
• Stays hydrated and drink enough water throughout the day as dehydration can trigger Migraine.
•  Get optimum sleep and try maintaining a sleep routine.
• Inculcate healthy eating habits such as consuming carbohydrate-rich, sumptuous breakfast daily, avoiding fermented foods, etc.

How to get rid of Migraine?

The commonly prescribed drugs can only prevent the symptoms like pain, nausea, sensitivity to light etc. The common side effects due to these drugs are fatigue, weight gain, sleepiness, loss of libido (sexual drive), depression etc.

Homeopathy for Migraine

Homeopathy has proved very effective in the treatment of migraine headaches. A Patient will experience that the frequency and intensity of migraine headache decreases, those who are previously dependent on pain killers could manage without them. Regular follow ups and adherence to the directions have often resulted in complete cure of migraine with homeopathy treatment in our experience.

In homeopathy there are more than 200 medicines indicated for migraine headache, the selection of medicine in each individual patient depends on individualistic or unique symptoms. The homeopathy remedies are safe, gentle and are made from natural resources and can be given to people of all age groups – from infants to elderly.

Watch our video on Migraine- Migraine-how to get relief by Dr Tejaswi.

Dr. Tejaswi K.P.Reader- Dept. of Surgery 
Bhagwan Buddha Homeo Medical college 
Mallathalli Bangalore
Consultanat- Surabhi Homeo clinic, Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore-97
Mob-97311 33819 Email-drtejas2000@rediffmail.com

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