What is the reason for excessive body hair

Everyone wants to be fair and clean, or at least the places where hair shouldn't grow should be clean. But there must be some people around us who have abundant hair on their belly, legs and arms. At this time, some people often don't even wear shorts in the summer. Many people wonder why some people don’t have this problem but others do, so let me analyze for you the reasons why there is excessive body hair?

The reasons for having excessive hair on the body are mostly related to genetic factors and race. Secondly, endocrine disorders and certain tumors can also cause hirsutism. Most women have excessive body hair due to excess male hormones.

1. Reasons for excessive hair on the body:

1. The rhythm of life is disordered and there is a history of staying up late for a long time.

2. Feeling unhappy, with long-term anger, depression, worry, anxiety and other negative emotional stimulations.

3. Improper care of skin and hair, incorrect plucking and hair removal methods or too frequent plucking and hair removal, and use of cosmetics or toiletries that are not suitable for one's own conditions.

4. Unreasonable diet structure, bad habits of eating too much greasy and spicy food and drinking excessively, often accompanied by long-term constipation.

2. Reasons why girls have more body hair

1. Drug stimulation

Excessive hair growth in women is mostly caused by factors such as genetics, diseases, and excessive hormone secretion. What is less known is that certain drugs can also cause excessive hair growth. These drugs fall into two main categories:

(1) Hormone drugs

Human hair growth is affected by endocrine hormones, especially androgens. Some women with the disease may directly develop hirsutism if they use drugs containing androgens.

(2) Non-hormonal drugs

The reason why drugs that do not contain hormones can cause hirsutism is that after entering the human body, they may affect the liver's function of decomposing and inactivating male hormones. If they act for a long time, excessive male hormones will be formed in the body, which will lead to hirsutism.

2. Genetic causes

Generally speaking, thick body hair is mainly related to genetic factors and excessive secretion of androgen in the body. If you have more hair on your limbs, more armpit hair, or thicker eyebrows, it is mostly affected by genetic factors, so you don't need to be too anxious about this situation.

3. Increased secretion of male hormones

When women suffer from diseases such as adrenal gonadal syndrome, pineal tumors, Cushing's syndrome, theca hyperplasia, acromegaly, pituitary tumors, and pituitary eosinophilic adenoma, the secretion of androgen in the body will be abnormal or increased, causing hirsutism. In addition, if you suffer from hypothyroidism, you may also have excessive body hair. Taking some hormone drugs can also cause excessive hair growth.

4. Polycystic ovarian syndrome

If a woman's ovaries have lesions, she is likely to have excessive body hair, the most common of which is polycystic ovary syndrome. When suffering from this disease, the hypothalamus's regulation of pituitary function will be impaired, causing excessive body hair. The most common manifestations are anovulation and obesity. About 70% of patients will grow a lot of body hair around the mouth, areola, calves, arms, etc. In addition, ovarian tumors can also cause women to have excessive hair growth.

5. Diet and lifestyle habits

Bad living habits mainly include irregular diet, overeating after hunger, eating fried food, consuming too much fat, unreasonable combination of various nutrients in the diet, and poor exercise, etc., which will cause the internal factors formed during the fetal and infant period to erupt, resulting in the phenomenon of thick body hair in women.