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The stresses of modern life have left one in three women over the age of 25 suffering from hair loss, research has revealed.

Experts believe a major cause is society's obsession with being thin.

This leads women to eat less as they try to imitate the skinny frames of celebrities, which means they are not getting enough nutrients which, in turn, is causing their hair to thin or even fall out.

A survey found that 37 per cent of women have experienced hair loss to some degree, with serious thinning a problem for 4.8million women in the UK.

Researchers argue that because the phenomenon is regarded as something that happens only to women in old age, the hair loss itself is adding to stress levels, accelerating the process.

Almost all of the 3,000 women aged 25 and over who were polled said they would be ashamed to say they were losing their hair.

A third of the women said hair loss made them depressed, while a quarter said their personal lives had been affected.

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Your hair has a way of telling you if your body is in balance.

If you are healthy - physically as well as emotionally - your hair will be radiant and shining and your scalp pliant and moist.

If you are not well physically, or if you are upset emotionally, your hair becomes dull and lifeless - it will begin to fall out, and your hair will become waxy with the overproduction of your traumatised sebaceous glands.

Truly, any major change in our lives can be reflected in the condition of our hair, scalp and skin.

If we are well and happy, we reflect this health and well-being in the condition of our hair and scalp.

If we are in a slump, that slump is often manifested in the appearance of our hair and scalp.

We need stress, we need it to become vital, ambitious and sexually active people. However we also need the ability to cope with stress when it threatens to overwhelm us.

Besides which without stress, we would become lethargic and depressed.

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World renowned hair loss expert, Dr. Larry Shapiro, announced the release of his new book, Fight Hair Loss and Win! and says that Elin Nordegren is not alone when it comes to hair loss as a result of stress. Shapiro says millions of women and men are experiencing the same and that heightened levels of stress, popular nutritional supplements, hormonal imbalances and many other unsuspecting factors are now linked to hair loss.

"Over the last few decades of observing and talking to thousands of patients, I became increasingly suspicious of certain supplements, lifestyle factors and hormones that contributed to their hair loss whether they were pre-genetically disposed to hair loss or not," said Dr. Shapiro, hair transplant surgeon. "I became so convinced that whey protein isolate was part of the problem, that I did my own study comparing different whey protein sources.

In his new book, Dr. Shapiro's addresses why whey protein isolate, a form of whey protein widely used in many weight loss products and meal replacement formulas causes a hormonal imbalance of testosterone. While this might be effective for muscle building, the side effect is hair loss due to the conversion of the spike in testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT).

"It makes perfect sense. Many of the FDA approved drug treatments for hair loss specifically target and block DHT receptors that cause hair to fall out," Shapiro added.

In addition, the book is chock full of practical tips on how to overcome and reverse hair loss that is caused by stress, which triggers a cascade of hormones that can wreak havoc on your hair follicles as is what most likely happened in Elin's case. "Here you have a perfectly healthy, young woman who has been under a great deal of stress. Her body reacted by creating a hormonal imbalance that triggered insomnia, weight loss and hair loss.

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Although hair loss is attributed to genetics, health professionals believe stress can exacerbate hair loss by triggering the release of certain hormones in the body which can damage hair follicles.

“Your DNA basically decides if and when you’re going to lose your hair. The primary cause of hair loss is genetic,” said Dr. Gary Perrault, a hair restoration specialist in Beverly Hills.

There are about 100,000 hairs on our heads, and we normally lose 100 to 150 strands a day, said Ted Robles, a health psychology professor who studies the different effects stress has on the body.

Natural hair loss may not be noticeable, but certain hair loss diseases, which young adults are genetically predisposed to, can be aggravated by stress and can cause baldness, said Dr. Cristina Kim, a dermatologist at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Robles said that although current research does not suggest hair loss is completely attributed to stress, it plays a role in how much hair is lost.

Some studies show that certain hormones our body release in response to stress can communicate with hair molecules, and stress certainly communicates with cells throughout the body, Robles said.

“The mechanism for which stress might influence hair loss is plausible and exists,” she added.

Certain hormones released while in times of stress, like dihydrotestosterone, can shorten the life of hair follicles, Perrault said.

These hormonal imbalances are not only affected by stress, but also by the poor lifestyle choices students make, Perrault added. In addition to stress, lack of sleep or a nutritious diet can affect the genetic process in our bodies, he said. During stress especially, the immune system responds differently than normal. As a result, a type of cellular death called apoptosis can occur more often, sometimes killing off cells that would not otherwise be killed, he said.

There are several types of stress most attributed to hair loss, Kim said. One is emotional stress, the type of stress students may have due to exams, work or relationship problems. The other type is medical stress, which patients experience after having surgery or after being in a car accident, she added.

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