3 Reasons Your Hair Is Shedding More Than Usual + How To Deal

Technically, you shed hair every day—about 50 to 100 hairs on average, in fact. But if you've noticed more strands falling to the floor lately, you might be playing detective to find out what's causing the sudden uptick. 

Consultant trichologist Anabel Kingsley and board-certified dermatologist Marisa Garshick, M.D., FAAD, previously shared a lengthy list of causes for increased shedding, one of which being seasonal changes. 

If you recently switched your hormonal birth control method, increased hair shedding is to be expected. This won't happen for everyone, but changing levels of hormones can impact your hair follicles and thus result in more shedding and overall hair changes. 

On another note, hair loss often happens during menopause, which can start off as increased shedding. See, when someone enters menopause, their estrogen and progesterone levels start to vary and eventually decline.

"Studies have shown that decreases in these two hormones contribute to hair loss because they play a role in hair growth and the duration of time that the hair stays in the growth or anagen phase," biomedical doctor, hair expert, and founder of hair care brand Alodia Isfahan Chambers-Harris, Ph.D., previously told mbg.

That brings us to the final common culprit: stress. While many people think stress will make your hair fall out all on the same day, that's not the case. In fact, it can take up to six months to see hair shedding from stress.