How does PCOD affect your hair?
Androgen or male hormones in layman terms are of some types. These are crucial in a girl during her puberty facilitating her normal menstrual cycle, blood flow, normal body hair growth. Testosterone, a male hormone (androgen), is high in volume in a woman with PCOS. While both genders have the natural levels of testosterone and oestrogen in each other, excess is what creates trouble. High levels of testosterone get replicated as Dihydrotestosterone (DHT). This culprit sticks onto your hair follicles turning them dysfunctional, resulting into something popularly referred to as FPHL that is Female Pattern Hair Loss. FPHL includes hair fall, receding line, bald portions etc. There has been a tendency of ignoring the symptoms in PCOS, however lately, many experts have opined in various platforms, of their take on hair loss becoming the preliminary symptom in identifying that a young woman may be on the verge of PCOD. How does PCOD affect your hair? Is there a ...