Stress Hair Loss & Male Pattern Baldness

What is STRESS?

We all have boiling points—between career pressure, personal goals, and family demands—stress builds. Over time, stress can infiltrate your physical, emotional, and physiological health. For men, there’s a stigma that stress aligns with weakness. That’s simply untrue, as it’s a medical condition that affects 77% of people’s physical health, as reported by the American Institute of Stress.

Stress is the cause of hair loss for many people, and that’s not all; 75-90% of all human diseases are the result of stress, according to a study by Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. When left unchecked, stress compounds. Ever feel like a pot of water about to boil over? It’s perfectly natural to feel stressed out, so let’s discuss what you can do about it.

DOES STRESS CAUSE MALE PATTERN BALDNESS?

Stress is a natural reaction triggered in the hypothalamus, the brain’s stress response center. When something stressful happens, the hypothalamus produces stress hormones that send you into “fight or flight” mode. Adrenal glands produce the hormone, cortisol, which shifts hair follicles out of active growing (the Anagen phase) and into active shedding (the Exogen phase). This complex system is vital in helping you respond to extreme stress. Yet it’s commonly misused to accommodate the reactionary demand of ongoing stress triggers. 

Can stress lead to hair loss? Absolutely, and it affects 55% of Americans, according to a 2018 Gallup Poll. Compared to the global average of 22%, it’s evident that U.S. citizens are stressed out. Daily stress creates a toxic cycle:

Stress leads to physical symptoms, and in turn, the symptoms debilitate your functioning. It’s no surprise, then, that the scalp is on the frontlines of this stress-battle.

Chronic stress hair loss in men leads to hair thinning, breakage, and loss. There is no strict yardstick for stress-related hair loss in men. We do know that exposure to ongoing stress triggers sends the hypothalamus into overdrive, and the result is hair loss.

Acute Hair Loss From Stress:
A response to a high-stress incident like a car accident, financial burden, major surgery, crash dieting, or a high fever. Hair loss occurs 2-3 months after the catalyzing event and will regrow within 3-6 months after.

Chronic Stress:
An ongoing, causes excessive hair shedding, and may indicate an underlying medical condition like a thyroid issue, medical illness, or poor nutrition. Chronic stress-related hair loss will cause general hair thinning all over the scalp. Once you identify and manage the stress trigger, hair should start to regrow.

Anxiety Stress:
Occurs from ongoing chronic stress that takes an extreme toll on a man’s mental, emotional, and psychological wellbeing.

HOW TO PREVENT Men's HAIR LOSS due to stress

The most bulletproof approach to alleviating stress-related hair loss is to tackle your stress triggers head-on. Here’s how:

• Seek guidance from a medical professional
• Visit a therapist or counselor to work through painful stress triggers
• Identify stress triggers and eliminate the ones you can
• For unavoidable stress (a medical illness, overbearing coworker, etc.) default to your calming activities

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