While on an internship, I noticed that one of my roommates was losing hair at a prodigious rate. He said he wasn’t horribly alarmed, since male pattern baldness ran in his family, but he often blamed it instead on the stress (the internship we all participated in often had us working fourteen hour days and was an incredibly stressful experience).

I often wondered if this is true. Does stress actually cause baldness? Turns out, yes! It is true! The old adage has some kernel of truth to it. This information is enough to cause people to stress out even more (and maybe lose some hair) but remember that stress need not get the best of us! If you have stressful days, try this simple exercise – simply take five deep breaths slowly, in a row, during a stressful time. This floods your brain with oxygen and often helps lower stress levels!