40% Of Women Will Have Female Pattern Hair Loss By The Time They Reach Menopause

• Old testament times – The prophet Elijah curses 42 youths teasing him about his baldness, and a bear kills them.
• 1330 BC – It is fashionable for Egyptians to shave their heads.
• 1400s – Upper-class women pluck the entire front of the hairline to have a higher forehead
• 1763 – Alopecia is named. Sauvades Delacroix first uses the word for all-over hair loss.
• 1928 – Maria Falconetti, the French stage actress, shaved her head for her role as Joan of Arc in the 1928 silent movie masterpiece. She was the first bald woman in a movie.
• 2000s – With the rise of social media, more and more people accept being bald and share it.
• Bald is Beautiful Day is a Creation of John Capps of Moorehead City, NC. John started the Bald Headed Men’s Convention over 50 years ago to recognize men who celebrated their baldness.
• Bald celebrities – Vin Diesel, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, and Patrick Stewart are considered part of the top ten best-shaved celebrity heads.
• About 95% of the total skin surface contains hair.
• It takes about three years for cut hair to reach your shoulders.
• Only 4% of the population has naturally red hair.
• 60% of U.S. women dye their hair.
• A single strand of hair can support up to 6.5 pounds of weight.
•  if the scalp is exposed to the sun, you should wear sunblock.
•  Hereditary baldness is not caused by the hair falling out, but rather by normal hair gradually being replaced by finer, thinner hairs.
• More than 50 percent of men have male pattern hair loss by the age of 50.
• Forty percent of women will have female pattern hair loss by the time they reach menopause.
• Statistically, hereditary pattern baldness is more commonly inherited from the mother’s side of the family, but hair loss can actually be inherited from the father’s side, the mother’s side, or both.
• When people notice that their hair is thinning, they often pay more attention to the hair that falls out after shampooing and assume that this is the cause. It is completely normal to lose up to 150 hairs per day, many of which are lost when you wash your hair.
• Decreased blood flow is actually a result of hair loss, not a cause.
• Thyroid imbalance and iron deficiency are reversible causes for hair loss.
• Certain drugs can cause hair loss. Many of them are used to treat:
  •  Cancer
  • Arthritis
  • Depression
  • Heart problems
  • High blood pressure
• On average, it takes 1,000 hair grafts to cover the area of a CD.
• Hair grows about 6 inches each year, or half an inch per month.
• 100,000 hairs can be found on the average adult scalp.
• Healthy hair can be as strong as steel wire and can take a force of 60 kg or more to break a single hair
• Healthy scalp hairs will live two to six years on the head before they are shed and replaced.
• Eyebrows, eyelashes and body hairs are shorter with longer growth cycles (i.e. takes longer to grow and replace them).
• Hair on our heads and in our beards has peak growth in autumn months.
• Hair on our heads and in beards slows down in the coldest months and picks up again come spring and summer.
• Hair follicles begin to form in the fetus during the first three months of pregnancy.
• The hair follicles you are born with are the hair follicles you’ll have your entire life.
• No new natural hair follicles will ever develop.
• Blondes have around 140,000 hairs
• Brunettes have around 105,000
• Redheads have the least with around 90,000
• Black is the most common hair color in the world.
• The outermost layer of our hair is made of a protein called keratin.
• Hair is one of the fastest-growing tissues in the human body

Sources:

National Today

National Day Calendar

Dr Wise

Denver Hair Restoration

Wicked Roots Hair