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What makes hairloss so important

For many people hairloss is one of the single most stressful events in their lives.  We have taken losing hair (and even more so when its sudden), as the beginning of the end, the time when we should start planning our last will and testament, being nice to the kids and getting in touch with long lost relatives, as death is just a kiss away.  This is obviously untrue, but where did we get this perception of hairloss? 

Hair goes way back.  I’m not talking a couple of centuries here, I’m talking thousands of years.  You can even read about it in the bible.  Why do you think that Samson’s strength came from his hair?  Because the people of that time saw that old people were weak, and they also saw that they tended to have less hair than younger people.  Don’t forget that the average life span in that era was 35 to 40 years.  So as soon as someone started losing hair, bang! they most likely died. It didn’t take a genius to put two and two together and come up with three!  But it doesn’t end there.  The Romans wore laurels to hide their hairloss and the Egyptians invented all kinds of remedies, from herbal shampoos to blood. 

You would have thought that in this new era of fast cars, space travel and e-just about everything, that the problems of hairloss would have diminished. But it seems that now because we live so much longer we need to find more things to worry about to fill our lives.