Losing Your Hair?

Why do we lose our hair?

More than half of men and women in the United States experience hair loss. It is very common and not just relegated to humans, as even chimpanzees lose their hair.

There are four forms of hair loss:

• Androgenic alopecia -- the most common type, also called male pattern baldness.

• Traumatic alopecia -- from hair being torn out.

• Drug-induced alopecia -- caused by one of many medications.

• Alopecia areata -- Patchy, usually reversible.

Many factors cause hair loss, varying from genetic to hormonal and baldness that genetically can come from both sides of the family. Testosterone, specifically the hormone dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, plays a tremendous role. Hair follicle receptors are sensitive to DHT, so they start the process of hair loss.

DHT is transformed into its present state by an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase. This enzyme helps in creating DHT because it links itself to testosterone molecules, which are then transformed into DHT as we know it today. DHT aids in male and female hair loss by attacking the hair follicles during their regrowth phase. Also, while we grow hair over a lifetime, we do not generate new hair follicles, which finish forming when a fetus is 22 weeks old. At that stage, there are about 5 million follicles on the body, with 100,000 follicles residing on the scalp, the most a human will ever have. The density of our scalp hair will reduce as we grow from childhood to adulthood for another reason -- as we grow, our scalps expand.

Source: WebMD; eMedicineHealth

Musclemen Get More Sex

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Muscular young men are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiseled peers, researchers at the University of California Los Angeles said on Monday.

Their study, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggests muscles in men are akin to elaborate tail feathers in male peacocks: They attract females looking for a virile mate.

"Women are predisposed to prefer muscularity in men," said study author David Frederick of UCLA.

"Most research is focused on what men find physically attractive in women and the career traits women find attractive in men," Frederick said by telephone. "Much less research is devoted to what women find attractive."

He said prior studies concluded a man's desirability was influenced more by his earning potential and commitment. His study found physical characteristics mattered more.

Women were more physically attracted to brawny men, especially for a fling. But when it comes to finding a long-term partner, they tend to pick a regular man over a mate with huge biceps.

"On the one hand, it makes them more sexy to women. On the other hand, it makes women more suspicious about their romantic intentions," Frederick said.

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Herbs For Male and Female Infertility

INFERTILITY is the inability to conceive after one year of unprotected intercourse. Women who are able to get pregnant but then have repeated miscarriages are also said to be infertile.

Infertility affects approximately 10% of people of reproductive age1, and 15% of couples. In 40% of infertility cases, the cause of infertility is the man; another 40% of cases involve a female factor; and 10% of the cases involve both sexes.

Male infertility

Healthy sexual function in men encompasses broadly two interrelated steps – spermatogenesis (formation of sperms), and performance of the male sexual act, which involves arousal leading to erection, orgasm and eventually ejaculation.

Female infertility

The most common female infertility problem is an ovulation disorder. Ovulation is necessary for the release of the egg from the ovary. Some signs that a woman is not ovulating normally include irregular or absent menstrual periods.

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