Do Asians hereditarily have dht sensitive follicles? I kind of notice every hapa whose dad gets with a white has their baldness too

[DominoEffect]

So it's not like asian genes actually help the balding with dht resistance.

You'd think it would since they go bald way less, so maybe they just don't have the androgens, or dht to cause baldness when they're pure asian.

 

[Lumalux]

I am part Native American and we have the exact same "never bald" gene.

 

[Moz5x]

I noticed there’s this persistent myth in the forums that Asians don’t go bald lol.

Many East and SE Asian men do go bald but just not as aggressively and as often as non-Asians do. There is a thriving hair transplant surgery industry in South Korea after all. Male pattern baldness among younger mainland Chinese men is apparently rising. There was also a study years ago that observed Japanese men appear to start balding 10-15yrs later on average than caucasians do. I suspect this is the case for many other East and SE asians based on my own observations while traveling. I never saw any higher Norwood Japanese, Korean, Thai, Filipino, Viet men that were of working age but did see a decent amount of bald/balding men that were very old.

I am ethnically southeast Asian and have no known white relatives going back 3 generations but all the men on my dad’s side ended up going slick bald NW5-6 by 55. Two of my full-blooded Asian friends who grew up in the US went NW3/4 in their mid/late 20s and have been shaving it ever since.

I do agree that Native Americans generally rarely ever seem to go bald.

 

[Aqalp]

Why is a bald head less frequent among Asian men?

Answer (1 of 8): Asian men have less of the 5-alpha-reductase enzyme. This enzyme converts regular testosterone into dihydrotestosterone. Testosterone is both anabolic and androgenic, meaning that it can build muscle tissue and bind to androgen receptor. Dihydrotestosterone is purely androgenic,...

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One popular theory is it has to do with diet, they consume more plant based foods(providing high anti DHT properties), seafoods, and little or no animal products or sugars.

 

[Moz5x]

I have always suspected the western diet and the marked increase of endocrine disruptors from pesticides and plastics might be triggering Androgenetic Alopecia early (among other things). It’s almost impossible to shield yourself nowadays from it though.

 

[Lumalux]

I noticed there’s this persistent myth in the forums that Asians don’t go bald lol.

Many East and SE Asian men do go bald but just not as aggressively and as often as non-Asians do. There is a thriving hair transplant surgery industry in South Korea after all. Male pattern baldness among younger mainland Chinese men is apparently rising. There was also a study years ago that observed Japanese men appear to start balding 10-15yrs later on average than caucasians do. I suspect this is the case for many other East and SE asians based on my own observations while traveling. I never saw any higher Norwood Japanese, Korean, Thai, Filipino, Viet men that were of working age but did see a decent amount of bald/balding men that were very old.

I am ethnically southeast Asian and have no known white relatives going back 3 generations but all the men on my dad’s side ended up going slick bald NW5-6 by 55. Two of my full-blooded Asian friends who grew up in the US went NW3/4 in their mid/late 20s and have been shaving it ever since.

I do agree that Native Americans generally rarely ever seem to go bald.

Native Americans and Mexicans/Latinos seem to share this trait. We have thick, dark hair. When was the last time you saw a bald Mexican or Native American?

 

[Moz5x]

Yup. Up and down the Americas, it’s the indigenous native populations that seem to always have the best hair.

Louis CK is bald and Mexican so there’s always an outlier.

 

[Lumalux]

Yup. Up and down the Americas, it’s the indigenous native populations that seem to always have the best hair.

Louis CK is bald and Mexican so there’s always an outlier.

Yeah, but I think the Hungarian-Jewish part took precedence.

 

[eagle21]

Diet and water. I'm asian and two of my older brothers have full hair on their 50s year old and I was slick bald before 40s. Go figure

 

[DominoEffect]

Why is a bald head less frequent among Asian men?

Answer (1 of 8): Asian men have less of the 5-alpha-reductase enzyme. This enzyme converts regular testosterone into dihydrotestosterone. Testosterone is both anabolic and androgenic, meaning that it can build muscle tissue and bind to androgen receptor. Dihydrotestosterone is purely androgenic,...

www.quora.com

One popular theory is it has to do with diet, they consume more plant based foods(providing high anti DHT properties), seafoods, and little or no animal products or sugars.

what would you say are teh best foods for retaining hair

 

[DominoEffect]

Yup. Up and down the Americas, it’s the indigenous native populations that seem to always have the best hair.

Louis CK is bald and Mexican so there’s always an outlier.

he's not amerindian

 

[Capone]

Why is a bald head less frequent among Asian men?

Answer (1 of 8): Asian men have less of the 5-alpha-reductase enzyme. This enzyme converts regular testosterone into dihydrotestosterone. Testosterone is both anabolic and androgenic, meaning that it can build muscle tissue and bind to androgen receptor. Dihydrotestosterone is purely androgenic,...

www.quora.com

One popular theory is it has to do with diet, they consume more plant based foods(providing high anti DHT properties), seafoods, and little or no animal products or sugars.

Tofu is highly estrogenic

 

[Moz5x]

he's not amerindian

I was being facetious. Next time I will throw in a “lol”.