Hair condition depends on how we look after. Know the true facts surrounding the hair and avoid excessive confidence in the myths that often circulate.

Myth: Men more easily bald

Natural, we lose 40-120 hairs per day. According to Marc Avram, MD, an expert on hair transplantation in Manhattan, along with age, we increasingly thin hair. Approximately 30 percent of women will experience it before age 50 years. In men, hair loss is more clearly visible (as occurred in the area near the forehead). “While in women, loss often occurs at the top of my head,” said George Cotsarelis, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, and Director of the Hair and Scalp Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania.

Myth: Genetic factors crucial

True. However, unlike the often circulated in the community, which determine the bald gene is not the father’s lineage alone. “If there is one member of our family’s bald, then we also have a ‘talent’ the same,” says Cotsarelis. “On the contrary, if we are born in the thick-haired family, our automated risk for experiencing hair thinning a little.”

Myth: the wrong food choices can lead to hair loss

True, diet is one factor to watch. In the study by Dr Hugh Rushton, a professor from Portsmouth University found the relationship between his thin hair and iron intake and the amino acid lysine. As many 90 percent of the thin-haired women had experienced shortfalls in the two substances. Lysine can help channel iron, to support the body’s metabolic processes. If the levels of both substances are low, the body will take up lysine contained in the hair follicle. Thus, filling levels of lysine by eating meat, fish, and eggs.

Myth: dyed hair is more susceptible to loss

Fact: Hair coloring or straightening may be done as far as not painful scalp. “When we feel pain when treatment is done, it means damaged hair follicle,” Cotsarelis said. Meanwhile, hair extensions are not recommended because the permanent damage to the follicle. As a result, in the next few years it will thin the hair. We can calm stems from the process of coloring hair with the proper care products. Not only nitrified hair shaft, but the process also makes the hair color to shine. Try: Kerastase Chroma Riche masque, hair mask with vitamin E and UV filters.