Women and Hair Loss: Possible Causes Are you losing more hair than you should, and what can you do about it? By Tammy WorthWebMD Feature The best way to think of the way hair grows is to picture a garden. How well it grows is completely a result of what is happening "underground."
Everyone loses hair. It happens during your morning shower, while you're blowing it dry, or when you give it a quick brush-and that's normal. "On average, we lose fifty to a hundred hairs a day," says Francesca Fusco, MD, a New York City dermatologist who specializes in hair loss.
Dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a derivative of the male hormone testosterone, is the enemy of hair follicles on your head. Simply put, under certain conditions DHT wants those follicles dead. This simple action is at the root of many kinds of hair loss, so we'll address it first.
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