If you stay up late, be prepared for hair loss and baldness!

Staying up late at night, feeling good while mosquitoes buzzing, and losing hair is the current situation of young people. Under such a trend, it seems that if you don’t stay up late, you are not worthy of being called a young person…

Staying up all night is fun, but you should pay attention to whether your body is really that strong and whether your hair is really that resistant...

What time is considered staying up late?

Will staying up late cause hair loss?

I want to stay up late but I can’t release it…

01After this point, you stay up late

The scientific term for staying up late is sleep deprivation, which generally refers to staying up all night or staying up late at night due to work. It is a bad habit that harms the human body and can cause some diseases and reduce efficiency. In the true sense, falling asleep at midnight is considered staying up late. From the perspective of endocrine, falling asleep after 23:00 is considered staying up late.

Staying up late to play games or do other things is considered sleep deprivation. However, simple sleep deprivation does not directly lead to hair loss. Some people are used to sleeping four or five hours a day without losing their hair.

02 Staying up late will really cause hair loss

Everyone has different physiques, and staying up late can cause different levels of damage to hair. Some people can easily lose their hair if they stay up all night, while some people stay up all night every day and their hair doesn't decrease much. But there is evidence that as long as you stay up late, whether you get enough sleep or not, you will still lose hair.

An article from the National Institutes of Health further demonstrates the role that sleep plays in hair growth. The activity of adult stem cells depends on an internal biological clock to coordinate the proliferation of the hair growth cycle. This study shows that disruption of the organism's sleep cycle can have a significant impact on the biological functions that occur in the hair follicles where hair growth occurs.

03 Why does staying up late cause hair loss?

Stimulate the secretion of male hormones: Staying up late will prevent the human organs from getting rest. In order to keep the whole body functioning normally, our body produces androgens to keep the body moving and the brain excited. When the secretion of male hormones is excessive, the hair containing the hair loss gene will be attacked by androgens, and male pattern baldness will occur.

Increased mental stress: When you stay up late for a long time and lack of sleep, you are actually in a state of anxiety or mental tension . The arrector pili muscles of the human body will contract, the hair will stand upright, and the autonomic nerve or central nervous system will be disordered. The local microvessels of the hair follicles of the scalp will contract strongly and persistently, causing local blood circulation disorders , directly leading to changes in the ecological status of the scalp, inhibiting the hair growth function, and starting hair loss .

Staying up late on top of the mental stress adds up to the harmful effects, causing the hair loss to become more and more serious.

04 Can the hair lost due to staying up late be restored?

So, if I stop staying up late from now on, can my hair volume return to its previous level? Generally speaking, short-term hair loss caused by endocrine disorders due to staying up late can be improved by self-regulating diet and work and rest. If you stay up late for a long time, the hair follicles will not have the opportunity to repair themselves, resulting in permanent hair loss (closed hair follicles), then medication will no longer work.

However, in addition to causing the above-mentioned neurogenic alopecia, staying up late will also accelerate the progress of androgenic alopecia, and most hair loss patients suffer from seborrheic alopecia (commonly known as androgenic alopecia). For androgenic alopecia, changing the work and rest schedule cannot alleviate androgenic alopecia. Androgenic alopecia is caused by 5α-reductase reducing testosterone on the scalp to DHT (dihydrotestosterone. DHT will shorten the hair growth cycle and cause hair to fall out prematurely. Androgenic alopecia has a genetic tendency, so if a person has androgenic alopecia, stopping staying up late will not stop hair loss. This is why some people's hair will still fall out into a "Mediterranean" color even if they have a regular work and rest schedule.

▲Hair follicles shrink due to DHT attack

Although staying up late can cause the early onset of male pattern baldness and aggravate hair loss, for the sake of your health, you should try not to stay up late. Go to bed and get up early, live a regular life, have a balanced diet, and let your body relax at all times. Healthy and good living habits are the effective way to delay the occurrence and extent of male pattern baldness!