Common Causes of Hair Loss and How We Can Help Reverse It

To say that hair loss is common as you age is an understatement — about two-thirds of men have visible hair loss by the young age of 35 and about one-third of women experience hair loss at some point. Two-thirds of post-menopausal women notice hair thinning or bald spots.

In other words, the collective hair loss in the population is significant. But it’s hardly insurmountable thanks to exciting hair restoration therapies.

At our practice, Dr. Sean P. Nikravan and his team are wellness experts who focus on whole body healing that taps natural resources for regenerative abilities and better hormone balance. For a great example of how these approaches work with your body, let’s examine how we address hair loss and thinning hair.

Behind the hair loss in both men and women

Let’s first explore what you’re up against when it comes to hair loss. In men, about 95% of the issue is due to androgenetic alopecia. Male-pattern baldness is a perfectly natural part of aging; the hair follicles begin to weaken over time and eventually shut down.

Much of hair loss in women is also due to androgenetic alopecia. Women face another challenge beyond female-pattern baldness, however, in the form of menopause. When women lose many of their reproductive hormones after menopause, one common result is thinning hair.

For both sexes, natural hair loss can be exacerbated by stress and high cortisol levels, which can block hormones that support hair growth. And there’s plenty of stress these days to go around.

Now, let’s turn our attention to two significant and effective ways that can address hair loss in men and women.

Platelet-rich plasma for new hair growth

Our regenerative approach for hair loss is platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy. With PRP therapy, we harvest platelets from your blood and isolate them, creating a platelet-rich concentrate.

We then inject this concentrate into your scalp where the platelets release powerful growth factors. As their name implies, growth factors support regeneration through cell proliferation, cell division, and cell differentiation.

Our goal with PRP is to provide your scalp with new resources to support follicular health, such as more vascularization and healthy new cell growth.

After a series of PRP treatments, which we space apart by a week or two, you should start to realize new hair growth over the coming months. And the best part is that we can continue to support new hair growth through ongoing maintenance PRP injections.

Hormone optimization to combat thinning hair

For many women, hormones (or the loss of hormones) are big drivers behind their hair loss, so we also can turn to hormone optimization to combat hair thinning.

If you’re dealing with menopause-related hair loss, we can treat the issue by reversing the hormone deficit through hormone therapies that include estrogen and progesterone therapies. Our hormone therapies also include replenishing male hormones, or androgen hormones, for overall wellness.

Another hormone problem that can lead to hair loss is hyperthyroidism. We address this issue with medications that can block thyroid hormones for better balance as well as through thyroid surgery.

Between hormone balancing and regenerative therapies, our goal is to tackle your hair loss naturally to garner great results that really go the distance because we’re promoting better scalp and follicle health.

To explore which therapies will work best to slow or reverse your hair loss, please don’t hesitate to contact Dr. Sean P. Nikravan, MD, FACE, at our office in Newport Beach, California, today to schedule an appointment.