It’s theme day over at the Science and Health Channel for b5media. Today’s theme is a top 10 list of my choice. So my choice is….why I will be bald by the age of 40.

So let’s get started…Here is the list

1. A really bad day at work – ok a somewhat mediocre day at work, has me pulling my strands of hair.
2. I have no immune system – I am frequently battling viruses and other infections -so I get fevers for long periods at a time -fevers are a known cause for hair loss.
3. Poor Nutrition – A balanced diet may help prevent hair loss – I definitely need to reexamine my diet
4. I can not stand head massages -a scalp massage, can increase blood flow to the head. I can not have my head touched. I know it sounds weird – I can’t quite explain it
5. My father is follicle challenged – hair loss is hereditary – and it doesn’t just come from the maternal side
6. I don’t own any chickens
7. I wear my hair in a ponytail almost everyday – hair styles where you pull the hair back and secure in elastics (such as braids or ponytails) can cause baldness
8. I am iron deficient (not exactly anemic – but low on iron, just the same) – deficiency of protein and iron can cause hair loss
9. Hair loss occurs for most people between the ages of 20 and 50 – I am between those ages
10. I occasionally colour treat my hair – hair that has been treated chemically can react – and fall out

Are you destined for hair loss, because of how you live?
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Ten Reasons Why I May Be Bald By the Age of 40

The Path-Way to Health by Peter Levens, written in the 17th Century, has just been discovered, and will be going to auction in October.  This is a medical handbook, which offers bizarre advice on combating  ailments.

Advice such as a cure for baldness can be reached by mixing the ashes of chicken dung with lye, and washing the head with it (where needed).  Lots of other really strange remedies can be found as well.

If you are at all interested in old wives tales, this may be the book you have been looking for.  It is scheduled to be auctioned off at Bonhams in London on October 9, 2007.

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Want Hair – Go Find a Chicken