Today we're going to talk about the 11 types of alopecia. Now what does the word alopecia mean?

It comes from a Greek word alopex, which means fox. And the reason why they talk about a fox is

that certain fox get an infection with mites and they start losing their hair in different patches.

So that's the origin of the word alopecia. Now as I go through this, there's a lot of new words

that you may not be familiar with. Just realize they're mostly Greek or Latin words that

describe the characteristics of what's happening with your hair. So definitely don't get cut up

with the names. Just classifications of different types of hair loss. Now some of these conditions

that I'm going to talk about are not really a hair loss problem. That's a symptom. The underlying

real problem is the immune system. And so when someone has an autoimmune condition, they develop

antibodies against their own tissues. In certain types of alopecia, you have the body developing

antibodies to your own hair follicles. And that creates a loss of hair or some type of

thinning with the hair or damage with the hair root or the hair just doesn't grow. Other types

of alopecia could have a genetic component. But don't get too caught up in the genetics because

there's something called epigenetics, which is above your genes. And so you can do things about

this even though you have a genetic problem. And then there's a type of alopecia that is caused by

too much DHT, which is a very powerful form of testosterone. So I'm definitely going to get into

the remedies after I describe each type. So let's start with number one alopecia ariata.

Now what does the word ariata mean? Comes from the Latin word which means ariata as in a vacant

space or patch. So this is where you see patches of hair loss throughout your hair because of a

certain autoimmune disease. Now there are certain types of alopecia ariata that I'm going to describe

right now. This is going to include different patterns of hair loss, hair loss to your eyebrows,

hair loss to different parts of your body. But with this condition, there's usually a problem with

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