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What can cause hair loss?
By the time you notice an unusal amount of hair loss, things will have gone wrong in your body for quite a while. It can take months, even years of bad nutrition, illness or hormonal imbalance before the body reacts with hair loss.
Hair loss can be caused by a great many things.
Here are just a few of them:
Stress, anaemia, hormonal imbalance (after childbirth; during menopause; taking the contraceptive Pill; coming off the contraceptive Pill; polycystic ovaries); prescription drugs (for acne, anti-coagulant drugs, cholesterol regulating drugs, antidepressants, amphetamines, antifungals, beta-blockers, high blood pressure drugs, HRT, anabolic steroids, steroids generally, anti-inflammatories, arthritis drugs, thyroid drugs, ulcer drugs, chemotherapy for cancer); shock (physical or emotional); a fall; thyroid problems; kidney problems; crash diets; continuous dieting; insufficient protein/meat intake; amalgam fillings in teeth; misaligned jaw, vaccinations, smoking.
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