If you are losing hair it is extremely important that you keep fit and healthy

Everybody knows that smoking is bad for them and can cause a whole array of illnesses like cancer of the lungs, heart disease and emphysema, but not many people know that smoking could be linked to male pattern baldness.

New research done in Taiwan at the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital and also the National Taiwan University shows that smoking could be linked to the degeneration of hair follicles on the scalp. The researchers feel that cigarette smoke could be interfering in the way that blood and hormones get circulated in the scalp and could even boost the production of estrogen.

Other studies have been done on the effects of smoking on human body but this is the first occasion that any evidence has been collected to show that smoking could aggravate male pattern baldness. It does make sense that the smoking could cause hair loss because one of the reasons that hair loss occurs in the scalp is due to lack of blood flow to the hair follicles. It has been known that by massaging the scalp you can stimulate the blood supply to hair follicles and therefore strengthen them.

If you are losing your hair it is extremely important that you keep fit and healthy so that the effects of your thinning hair will not be so obvious. In men who are healthy and fit hair loss is not so noticeable. We have advised in a number of articles at Ukmedix News that men who are losing their hair must make an extra effort in their physical appearance to compensate for the lack of hair.

In the new study done in Taiwan well over 700 men were examined. They were of the average age of 65 and the researchers said that they could find a link between cigarette smoking and the “development of moderate or severe hair loss”.

So if you still not sure why you should give up smoking you now have yet another good reason to quit the habit!