{"id":1243,"date":"2015-11-24T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hairtransplantwebsite.com\/?page_id=1243"},"modified":"2015-11-24T19:46:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:46:54","slug":"female-baldness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/female-baldness\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Baldness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Female Baldness<\/h2>\n<p>Female pattern baldness is triggered by Androgens (male hormones).  It may occur at anytime from puberty but is most commonly seen after the menopause.  It&#8217;s the most common type of hair loss seen in women.<\/p>\n<p>All women have a small amount of male hormone and these levels can become more pronounced if levels of female hormones decrease as occurs during menopause.<\/p>\n<p>In men and women the male hormone testosterone is converted to Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) by the enzyme 5-alpha reductase thus causing susceptible hairs to fall or thin out.<\/p>\n<p>It is thought that hair loss in women don&#8217;t proceed as far as it does in men because they only have half the amount of 5-alpha reductase.<\/p>\n<p>Women also have increased amounts of the enzyme Aromatase, which converts male hormones into female hormones preventing additional female hair loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Ludwig Scale illustrations guide below will help women evaluate their levels of hair loss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ludwig-scale1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ludwig-scale1.png\" alt=\"ludwig-scale(1)\" width=\"565\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1247 lazyload\" title=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ludwig-scale1.png 565w, https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ludwig-scale1-300x106.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 565px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 565\/200;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Baldness Female pattern baldness is triggered by Androgens (male hormones). It may occur at anytime from puberty but is most commonly seen after the menopause. It&#8217;s the most common type of hair loss seen in women. All women have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_r.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1243","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1243\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hairlossexperiences.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}