Hair Loss And Stress

Mental stress is something almost all of the people have to live with. It is actually a fact of life, and while it can have its beneficent effects, like spurring people on to greater achievements and making them far more focused and intense at a task, taken to an extreme stress can be detrimental to a person, both psychologically and physiologically. One of the most annoying effects of extreme mental stress is a scientific condition called Telogen Effluvium. In general terms, this scary sounding name actually means that a person's hair starts thinning due to severe mental stress.

However, mental stress does not contribute directly to one's hair loss. Despite what most of the people may think that it is actually a proven fact that the mental stress a person feels does not have a direct physical bearing on that person's hair loss. Being completely stressed out does not cause the hair to pop off the head faster; rather, when a person is under stress, he or she actually falls into certain personal habits that lead to hair loss. These personal habits are actually the direct effect of stress, and dealing with them will help to minimize stress-related hair loss. There are several types of these habits have been reported that people need to avoid for a better result.

One of such habit is poor diet plan. When people usually get overstressed, they tend to neglect their eating habits. A person who has an unbalanced and unhealthy diet will eventually suffer from a lot of different physical ailments, and frankly hair loss would be the least of a person's worries in this case. In fact, hair loss is a relatively mild warning sign that people should correct their diet and start eating right. To show how a poor diet plan affects a person's hair, here is a little fact, normally a person will shed hair, and roughly about 100 follicles a day, and these are eventually replaced by the body naturally.

People who have an unhealthy diet will usually lose 200 to 300 hairs in a given day, more than the body can replenish immediately, and this causes hair loss. By getting a balanced and healthy diet rich in protein, with low fats and carbohydrate content, this type of hair loss can eventually be overcome, as the added nutrients will bring the rate at which people shed their hair to normal levels, and eventually your scalp will replenish their hair naturally.

Alcohol and cigarettes consumption is another bad habit. As the unfortunate result of stress some people turn to vices to cope with the stress. Alcohol and cigarettes are actually the relaxants, and being readily available and legal, are sometimes overindulged in by people going through periods of high stress. While these are taken in moderate amounts, both of these vices already carry their own corresponding health risks. During times of mental stress even people who are merely casual social drinkers or smokers may suddenly increase their intake as a means of coping. During these stressful times, the increased intake of alcohol or nicotine causes physical problems. People may have noticed that habitual chain-smokers normally have yellowed finger nails or yellow teeth.

• Juliana Breckinridge
• 23/02/2009, 10:59 PM
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