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Most people lose somewhere between 50 and 100 hairs a day without ever noticing. Then, sometimes with no obvious warning, the numbers change. The plughole fills up after every shower, the pillow is covered in hairs each morning, and a gentle tug brings away a small bundle instead of one or two strands. For many […]

Many women remember their pregnancy hair as the best it has ever been: thicker, shinier and falling out less than usual. A few months after the baby arrives, that changes. Hair starts coming out in the shower, on the pillow and in the hairbrush, sometimes in handfuls, and often just as sleep is short and […]

Few medications have changed weight loss as quickly as semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound). Millions of people have started them in the past few years, and many are losing more weight, more quickly, than any diet ever allowed. Then, a few months in, some of them notice something they did not expect: more […]

When hair starts to thin, the first stop for most people is the supplement aisle. Shelves of “hair, skin and nails” capsules promise thicker hair, and social media is full of advice on which vitamin you are supposedly missing. It is an appealing idea: if a deficiency caused the problem, a tablet should fix it. […]

Creatine is one of the most studied supplements in sports nutrition, and one of the most popular in any gym. It is also the supplement that young men ask about most often in a hair transplant consultation. Many of them have read online that creatine raises DHT, the hormone behind male pattern baldness, and some […]

Hair loss in women is common, but it rarely looks or behaves like hair loss in men. The most frequent cause is female pattern hair loss, which thins the hair diffusely across the top of the scalp while usually keeping the front hairline. Other common causes, such as shedding after pregnancy, illness or stress, iron […]

A bald spot on the crown is most often the first sign of male pattern baldness at the top of the head, where the hair grows in a whorl. It usually starts as thinning around the whorl, widens slowly over years, and can eventually merge with a receding hairline. Less often, a round, smooth bald […]

A receding hairline is not always balding. Most men’s hairlines move up by about a finger’s width between their late teens and their twenties, evenly across the front, and then stop. That is a mature hairline. It becomes early balding when the recession keeps moving, deepens at the temples into an “M” shape, and the […]

The Norwood scale is the 7-stage system surgeons use to classify male pattern baldness, from Norwood 1 (no real recession) to Norwood 7 (only a horseshoe of hair left at the back and sides). Each stage roughly predicts how large the bald area is, and therefore how many grafts a transplant needs: from around 1,500 […]

Male pattern baldness is a genetic sensitivity of certain scalp follicles to DHT, a hormone made from testosterone. Over years, DHT shrinks the follicles at the hairline, temples and crown until they grow only fine, short hairs, while the back and sides of the scalp stay protected. It progresses in predictable stages, and the best […]