Menopause's No Reason To Lose Your Hair!

Hair loss is one of the possible side effects of menopause that also elicits the biggest reaction from women.

- Lim Teck Choon

After all, unlike hormones, the hair is always something a woman can control. She can style it, colour it, cut it perhaps… and menopausal hair loss may strike her as another sign of her losing control over her femininity.

If you are facing this issue, or if you are concerned because the women in your family have a history of menopausal hair loss, we have some good news. There have been some recent developments on a possible solution, and it’s an elegantly simple one – caffeine in the shampoo.

AT A LOSS

Why do some women lose their hair during menopause? Well, to understand the reason, Dr Adolf Klenk says that we first have to look at the two sex hormones: oestrogen (the female sex hormone) and testosterone (the male sex hormone).

Both hormones are present in our body, regardless of whether we are male or female. Of course, for females, the levels of oestrogen are higher than those of testosterone, and the reverse is true for males.