Herbal Nutrition Supplements


Herbal
nutrition supplements the
Alternative to hormone replacement therapy
Hair loss is a genetic/hormonal process that can affect both men
and women.

Hormones that bind to hair follicles can cause an
imbalance in the biological processes that cause hair growth.
Eventually, excess hormonal action on the follicle causes hair to
stop growing and the follicle dies.
Hormones govern the growth of hair. In men, the male hormone,
testosterone, governs beard, body hair and hair in the armpits.

In
women, estrogen, the female hormone generally prevents hair growth
on the chin and encourages it to grow on the head. Occasionally,
women develop signs of hair loss or baldness when estrogen levels
drop.
This patterned form of hair loss is called androgenetic
alopecia. This term means hair loss caused by sensitivity to male
hormones which exist in both men and women.

DHT
(Dihydrotestosterone) is one of the main enemies in the war on hair
loss in women.
DHT is a potent form of testosterone and acts on hair follicles
via androgen receptors. DHT has a disastrous effect on the scalp
hair follicles so they begin to shut down and the hair eventually
falls out. DHT can also cause the hair follicles to produce sebum.


Sebum is a fatty substance secreted from the sebaceous glands most
of which open into hair follicles.
DHT is the natural metabolite which is
produced due to action of two enzymes 5 alpha reductase type I and
II. The number and distribution of androgen receptors in the hair
follicles, the enzymes 5 alpha reductase type I and II, and the
local concentrations of dihyrotestosterone around hair follicles
are the factors which are responsible for male androgenetic
alopecia It is presumed that in women there are additional factors
which come into play such as the concentration of Cytochrome
P-450-aromatase near hair follicles as well as the distribution of
androgen receptor proteins. The cytochrome enzyme
metabolizes androgens to estrogens, and modifies the ratio of
androgens to estrogens by having a protective role by antagonizing
the effects of androgens.


Differing concentrations of androgen metabolizing enzymes and
androgen receptors have been identified in hair follicles from
women compared to men. The concentration of Cytochrome
P-450-aromatase is six times higher in women's frontal hair
follicles compared to men's frontal hair follicles. Women also have
around 3 times less alpha-5-reductase type I or type II enzyme in
their frontal hair follicles compared to men. Conversely, androgen
receptor content in frontal hair conversely, androgen receptor
content in frontal hair follicles from men are 40% higher than for
hair follicles from women.

These differences between men and women
most likely account for the overt clinical differences for women
pattern balding.
Many women in their 40s now take hormone replacement therapy as
an option to treat pattern baldness. Besides the hormone
replacement therapy there are there are many
herbal nutrition supplements which can be
used as alternatives for hormone replacement therapy not only to
restore the hair growth but also for many other ailments. Most
of these herbal supplements are used in
natural hair growth products.


Prevention is better than the cure and using these herbal
supplements can stop the further hair loss.

The author is involved with the hair growth research, he is also
writing on subjects like the nutrition,
nutritional diet vitamin supplements
and
natural hair care products and supplements to
educate people so that they don't fall an easy prey to the hordes
of synthetic nutrient growth supplements advertised on
internet.

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