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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, tells a reader who is bothered by thinning of his hair that “hair loss is God’s way of telling me I’m human.”  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Hello there, welcome to another episode of Putting Dr. G on the Spot.

00:04In the month of August, we are focusing on various forms of aging-related conditions.

00:10Although the next one we are focusing on is not strictly sexual,

00:15however, it may affect somebody's self-confidence and also how they perceive their own body

00:21when they undergo problems of hair loss.

00:30Hair loss itself is called alloplesia. Alloplesia can happen in men or women

00:35and that itself can cause distress and also lose their sex appeal.

00:40So the so-called crown of glory in the head, what is it controlled by?

00:45In fact, it's controlled by three things. Number one is genetic.

00:50So somebody who has got alloplesia due to genetic conditions,

00:54basically, you have got male pattern boners that is perhaps hereditary from your family.

01:01So these individuals may actually start going through the problem of hair loss

01:06early in their teens or much earlier in their youth.

01:11And then so that itself is usually genetically orientated with the influence of hormone.

01:18So that brings us to the second problem, which the hormone.

01:21Hormone itself is very important in the hair growth.

01:25Hair growth come in three stages.

01:27The first stage is the actual growth itself.

01:30Second stage is transition.

01:32Third stage is resting.

01:34In fact, when you're younger, your hormone level is stronger

01:37and we want it to be more in a growth phase.

01:41However, when someone is getting older,

01:43then the actual resting phase is prolonged

01:46and the hair becomes quite fragile.

01:49Now, melanocyte disappears and you get graying of the hair.

01:53And that's what's happening if mostly men.

01:56As men get older, their testosterone levels start dropping.

01:59When the overall testosterone drops,

02:02the active component of the testosterone called dihydrotestosterone get depressed.

02:08As a result of that, they will start getting problems with actual, the hair growth lost.

02:15And when you have that situation, then there are multiple medications that can help you.

02:21That brings us to the third condition that causes hair loss.

02:25That actually is poor health.

02:27When somebody has got poor overall health, especially cardiothoracic health,

02:32you've got diabetes, it's got hypertension and high cholesterol.

02:37When your overall health is affected, the hair growth is also affected.

02:41In addition to that, when you have these conditions, you're also taking some medication.

02:46For example, anti-diabetic medication may cause some sparsing of the hair.

02:51When this occurs in women, there are other medical conditions.

02:55For example, hair loss is associated with menopause.

02:59When menopause occurs, the protections of hair growth in estrogen decreases

03:03and therefore you get thinning of the hair.

03:06But the pattern is slightly different compared to men

03:09because it is more spaced out and it's more of spacing of the thinning of the hair

03:15and also they get quite fragile.

03:17After washing vigorously, they actually lose the hair and never regrowth.

03:22So, in summary, the hair is protected by both genes,

03:27hormone that controls mainly sex hormone and also your overall health.

03:32From a full luscious hair with a crown of glory,

03:36we're dealing with another glory which is the morning glory.

03:40You need to stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.

03:44着nose

03:46hope in cons neutrality

03:50Bye Bye

03:52Bye

03:55Daniel

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