Is It True Hair That Has Come To The End Of It's Cycle Becomes Thin?

[Ninjarambohd]

Hi a while back I was reading a forum where a user responded to another user who had asked why do people with no hair loss at all also shed thinner hairs as well? The user responded that hair that has come to the end of it's cycle becomes thin and limp and sheds to be replaced by new hairs this is because the vital vitamins and nutrients were cut of from it.

So I was wondering is this true?

 

[Norwood One]

That's called miniaturization...and it usually happens with people who are balding.

For people who aren't balding? I mean if they keep progressively getting smaller and smaller hairs, they will eventually be balding as well. Balding doesn't happen overnight, it's gradual decrease in the diameter of the hair shafts..then one day they're so thin and vellus you can't see them except with a magnified mirror...and then enventually it stops growing.

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Only in Androgenic Alopecia the hair follicles suffer further miniaturization every growth cycle. You'd have to suffer from severe malnutrition in order to experience hair loss caused by a poor diet.

 

[shookwun]

Your final pattern will indicate your degree of miniaturization.

All though you may only see to the naked eye recession or whatever degree of hair loss you have, I can assure you that your entire scalp is gradually thinning.

it's why a lot of people who have experienced years of hair loss tend to form that horse shoe in the advanced stages despite maybe only having a NW3. The entire scalp is thinning, while the sides, and back are semi-resistant.

As the years go by you may notice that your top is diffuse looking while the sides, and back are still terminal, and healthy.

The drugs will inhibit the aggressiveness of DHT, but hair loss is progressive and you will eventually reach your destiny.

 

[Ninjarambohd]

No guys I probably asked the question wrong. What I mean is it normal for people with no male pattern baldness to lose variation of hair strands? Thick, Thin, Long Short? Take my girlfriend for example. After she comes out of the shower and I go in to take a shower I notice that on the shower floor there are variation of her hair strands. Long ,Short, Thick and thin. Yet she has amazing thick hair. Even on her pillow I find the same strands in the morning.

 

[Ninjarambohd]

Bump

 

[Norwood One]

Yes its normal. Women shed, cats shed, non balding men shed.

Her rate of growth is probably equal to or more than her rate of shed, this is why she is not balding. Balding is when your rate of shed exceeds your rate of growth.