WAKING up one day, Sofia Daley ran her fingers through her hair, horrified, she noticed bald patches and thinning across her scalp. At the age of 21, Sofia was waking up to less and less hair until one day she noticed bald patches along her scalp. Confused and scared, Sofia who was at university at the time had no idea what was going on and was startled as there were no indications of hair loss such as having clumps of hair falling out.
Speaking to Fabulous , she said: "Every day I'd wake up and it was like a little bit thinner and a little bit thinner. To the point where it does sort of become overwhelming. "I distanced myself from a lot of my friends at the time.
" A few months later Sofia managed to get a dermatologist appointment and was diagnosed with androgenic alopecia. READ MORE HAIR LOSS HACKS Androgenic alopecia is often found in mature women with one in three affected by it and can often be linked to genetics. The ageing process can cause changes in the levels of androgens (hormones that can stimulate male features) causing hair loss.
The hormone in question? DHT - dehydrated testosterone. However, for Sofia, who is now 24, it started much earlier and a lot more aggressively. Most read in Fabulous "I went to see a dermatologist who yeah was not very optimistic about me being able to grow back My hair so it was a little bit demotivating," Sofia says.
After the diagnosis, Sofia spent two years researching treatments to get her hair to grow back and stop falling out. S.