Our editor seeks to answer one reader's pressing question: Just how much hair loss in the shower is too much?Lily Moe is a writer and editor specializing in health, wellness, and fitness. She is the current News Editor at Health.Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content.Each time I get out of the shower, I'm shocked at how much hair I've lost.
Hair loss is also a natural part of aging. Nearly everyone experiences some sort of hair loss as they get older—hair growth slows down, and some hair follicles stop producing new hairs. This is called. For men, this hair loss is often at the temples or the top of the head; for women, hair becomes less dense, making the scalp more visible.
Gentle is the name of the game when it comes to hair care if you want to avoid hair loss as much as humanly possible—that means no scrubbing your scalp, no yanking a comb through knotted hair, and no vigorously drying your hair with a towel.