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Hair Loss: Causes, Treatments, and Prevention

Losing hair at a young age can cause your self-esteem to take a hit, making you devastated and demoralised. Hair loss is a problem that affects both men and women.  However, hair loss generally affects women more than men because society is more accepting of men with little or no hair. Hair loss is widely regarded as an aesthetic issue rather than a medical one. This means that seeking treatment is not necessary, but an optional one. In the U.S. alone, men represent about 40 percent of the entire population of hair loss sufferers in the world. However, research is lagging behind for females because of the embarrassment, fear, and shame will keep them from sharing their symptoms. We speak to Dr. Siew Tuck Wah, Medical Director of Radium Medical Aesthetics, as he shares with us the main causes of hair loss, treatments available and some simple ways we can prevent hair loss.  Common causes of hair loss Our hair is in a constant cycle of growth, rest, and renewal. The

How to Have Younger-Looking Eyes

Aging often starts from around the eyes. Your eyes often reveals how old you actually are.  If you are someone who dismisses the use of eye cream because you think it is redundant, you might want to think again. At some point in our lives, it might have crossed our minds if our regular face moisturiser can double up as an eye cream. Don't worry - you are not alone.  Thousands of us struggle to find the importance of using a separate product for the eye area. We decide to speak to a renowned aesthetic doctor in Singapore, Dr. Siew Tuck Wah, to tell us how to take care of our eyes and if eye creams are a necessity.  Why do I need an eye cream? The skin around the eyes are extremely delicate - it is about ten times thinner than the skin on other parts of the face. This also means that the collagen levels are much lower around the eyes. With lower levels of collagen, the eyes are often the first area to show signs of aging such as wrinkles and fine lines. In more obvio