Bald truth about my hair loss

CELEBRITIES such as Lady Gaga talking about hair loss highlight the suffering of women and children who have alopecia.

Alopecia is an auto-immune hair-loss disease and while research proves it is largely genetic — in 2009, Japanese researchers identified the responsible gene, SOX21 — overuse of hair products, like extensions, and increased stress can contribute to hair loss.

A recent survey by Viviscal found an astonishing 57% of Irish women and men suffer from hair-thinning because of stress.