Why does baldness start at certain age ?

[DogoDiLaurentiis]

So what about the more recent talk about how early age balding is may be correlated with other health problems like heart disease? That early balding is indicative of poor general health? Is there some merit to that or not at all?

As far as I know I am in great health. I haven't had in depth testing done but I may do it now just out of curiosity.

For me my balding is now a purely cosmetic aesthetic issue. I am horseshoe bald. I can't live with the horseshoe because it looks awful. And I also can't wear wigs because of future career. So I need to find a solution to get rid of the horseshoe ring. There's gotta be something I can do.

Inflammation is implicated in heart disease, it's not the organ it's the thing causing the organ to fail.

Poor overall health is not the cause, it's a symptom, find the cause, in my case hormones are all fucked up and they need to be straightened out and I have to take metformin for insulin resistance, which I'll repeat here, lowers IGF-1 and DHEA and insulin.

How many people know that insulin can cause oily skin and acne? How many? It is now my hypothesis that many young teens who have a really rough time physically transitioning through puberty almost experience a syndrome in a similar nature to what women experience sometimes during pregnancy, such as gestational diabetes, only you also have your pituitary and adrenals going apeshit as well.

People who think "testosterone is high when you're young thus it must mean your follicles are being eroded or some sh*t", no, young people usually have more estrogen to balance out the testosterone, and most of the time when teens are oily with bad skin and acne, I'm thinking now it has way more to do with excessively high IGF-1, and other pituitary and adrenal hormones. The reason why the hair is resilient is because young men tend to aromatize way more testosterone into estrogen.

Look at a lot of young men on youtube who stream, those are the faces influenced by the hormone estrogen, they may have testosterone at increased levels but a lot of estrogen as well, it doesn't always mean you're going to have gyno and be fat, I had no noticeable sides from having much higher estrogen back in my 30s than now save for that my skin and facial collagen was higher.

People are looking at hair loss all wrong, we've been taught by stupid boomer doctors to mythologize causes with vague terms and people internalize that nonsense because virtually no research is being applied toward discerning these things because there's absolutely ZERO money involved in coming to a conclusion that a particular disorder could be cured by an existing treatment which cannot be monetized.

This is the nature of modern research in almost all things now, it's a slow moving behemoth which only lurches itself into action at a glacial pace due to many things not the least of which involves liability, overhead and regulations.

 

[coolio]

People are looking at hair loss all wrong, we've been taught by stupid boomer doctors to mythologize causes with vague terms and people internalize that nonsense because virtually no research is being applied toward discerning these things because there's absolutely ZERO money involved in coming to a conclusion that a particular disorder could be cured by an existing treatment which cannot be monetized.

Or maybe people think that way because male-pattern baldness has been normal for thousands of years. It didn't just start a few decades ago when junkfood & sedentary lifestyles became common.

Are bad modern diets an aggravating factor? Yes, I think they can be. But that's no reason to reject the huge obvious genetic component.



Did you bring back your hair by making hormonal changes through diet/lifestyle?

That's great for you. But you aren't everyone. You aren't most people. You aren't even 25% of people. You are a pretty tiny sample size for a study.

 

[pegasus2]

Receptor sensitivity is a myth, if anything it's because their bodies are already burdened by other hormones increasing in the absence of testosterone. Basically, the body as it gets older has to manage the burden of other potentially increasing hormones and adding one more antagonistic hormone to the mix aggravates their bodies enough to push things over the edge.

DHEA, insulin, and IGF-1 and even too much cortisol can all impose negative outcomes on hair. Using myself as an example, I absolutely believe that certain hormones can increase over time, especially if you have a problem such as insulin resistance, but even overactive pituitary or adrenal hormone release.

The hair loss community is overly fixated on testosterone, and that is one diffraction of a whole spectrum of issues that are implicated in hair problems.

I didn't say a word about receptor sensitivity, so I don't know what you're talking about

 

[DogoDiLaurentiis]

I didn't say a word about receptor sensitivity, so I don't know what you're talking about

You didn't have to.

 

[nahte42]

But again, what is the exact science of the genetic male pattern baldness? Why did it develop, and why does it only affect the hair follicles on top of the head and not on the sides and back of the head?

There seems to be genetic predisposition to hair loss but for most men it occurs slowly over the decades as they age. But for some very few like me, we literally lose all our hair on top of the head as soon as puberty kicks in and within couple years after. Why this evolved as a genetic trait is so interesting to me. And sad, of course.

 

[Will Be an Egg in 5 years]

Karma.

I must've been the biggest scum the world have ever known.

 

[Poppyburner]