What happens if you wear hats to much

The good news? Treat your hat with the same courtesy. Unwashed hats can accumulate dirt, dust, and even bacteria, which in turn can leave their wearer with an irritated scalp. Do yourself — and your hat — a favor and keep it clean. So, be it a beret or a beanie, a fedora or a fez, a sombrero or a Stetson, don your headwear of choice without a worry — and know that while it may up your style game, it will in no way decrease your hair count.

Want to know what does cause your hair to fall out? But Friedman and other experts say that for most people, these are unlikely to be serious risk factors. Contact us at letters time.

By Markham Heid. Take off that hat. It will make you bald. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber? While it might look like your hat is causing you to lose hair, this is just a coincidence. Another reason many people associate hat wearing with hair loss is that wearing a hat can give your hair a flat and messy appearance, especially when you wear a hat for a long time.

When your hair is messy, things like a receding hairline or baldness around the crown the area at the top of your head can become more visible, making your hair loss more obvious.

Instead, it may simply make a receding hairline or other signs of hair loss easier to notice. Interestingly, some research has found that wearing a hat may actually reduce your risk of hair loss over the course of your life.

In a study published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, researchers compared 92 identical male twins to assess the severity of their hair loss, as well as the factors that may play a role in the hair loss process. The researchers found that some factors, such as smoking and the presence of dandruff, were associated with a higher degree of frontal hair loss hair loss around the hairline.

They also found that certain other factors, such as a higher body mass index and testosterone levels, were associated with reduced hair loss around the hairline. One of these factors was wearing a hat. Contrary to the myth, the hat-wearing twins were less likely to show significant frontal hair loss than their non-hat-wearing counterparts.

As we briefly mentioned above, male pattern baldness the type of hair loss that causes a bald spot around your crown or a receding hairline is caused by dihydrotestosterone, or DHT. During childhood and adolescence, DHT is an essential hormone that plays a major role in the development of your male secondary sex characteristics.

Along with testosterone, DHT is responsible for things like developing your genitals, producing your bone structure and stimulating the growth of your body, facial and pubic hair. However, during adulthood, DHT becomes less of an essential hormone and, for some guys, a bit of an annoyance. As an adult, DHT stimulates the growth of your prostate, the working of your sebaceous glands the oil-producing glands within your skin that can contribute to acne and, for some guys, male pattern baldness.

More specifically, DHT can bind to receptors located in your scalp and cause your hair follicles to gradually become smaller via a process called miniaturization.

Over time, these follicles stop producing new hairs, resulting in everything from mild thinning to severe hair loss that affects almost your entire scalp. Not everyone is equally sensitive to the effects of DHT, which is why some guys shed hair early in life and others are able to maintain an almost flawless hairline well into old age.

Although male pattern baldness is the most common cause of hair loss in men, other things can also cause you to lose hair. For example, health issues such as chronic stress, severe infection or illness that causes you to develop a fever can cause a form of hair shedding called telogen effluvium. Certain health issues, such as tinea capitis fungal infection of the scalp and alopecia areata, may also cause you to lose hair.

Our guide to the different types of hair loss goes into more detail about how these forms of hair loss can develop. Overall, wearing a hat offers a mix of advantages and disadvantages.