Is Weight-Lifting Resulting in Hairloss?

Posted on July 7, 2008 in Uncategorized

Are you a regular weightlifter? Are you desparately trying to cope up with the problem of fast receding hairline? Then, you are not the only one. British scientists have found a definite relation  between weight- lifting, increase testosterone level and hairloss. Let’s check it out.

How Weight-lifting Causes Baldness?
In normal condition, weight-lifting helps in building of our muscles and keeping us fit. A regular weight lift  may also increase free testosterone level and this excess causes various  physiological changes in our body like receding hairline, balding in the crown or general baldness in male. In female, it results in general thinning of hair.

A session of work-out can cause rise in  the level of testosterone (hormone) in our body by 25% after 45 minutes. When this excess hormone is reacting with 5-alpha-reductase (an enzyme naturally found in our hair follciles), it is causing the formation of dihydrotestosterone (DTH). This DTH is responsible for shrinkage of hair follicles and roots.  Rogers Medical Group, a practice specializing in hair transplants says,“We have seen an increase in men in their 20s and 30s who regularly circuit train. There is no doubt it is often a factor in hairloss.”

Ways to Control Baldness:
While it is natural to loss 100-150 hairs on an average everyday, we start noticing thinning of hair only after we have lost half(50%) our hair!

Listed below are some of the ways to control or prevent baldness affected by weight lifting:

You do not have to stop or curtail certain weight exercises to control baldness. All you have to do is follow proper medication and treatment under your physician’s active guidance.

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