Why some people bald youngers than others ?

[jamesbooker1975]

It is a really simple question, that we don't have an answer .
We know that level of DHT, higher they are, higher the chances to go bald ( if you have the genes) . Actually , the best treatment are finasteride and dutasteride ( lest forget a minute about a side effect )

But everyone have their higher hormonal levels when they are teens. So why , all that we have genetic predisposition to bald , don't start to receding while we are teens ? I my case, I started when I was 17 years old. My best friend at that age had a full head of hair, now, with 42, he is a Norwood 7 ( started to lose his hair at 32 ) . Actually, I have more hair now cause drugs than him

What if is something more than just DHT levels ? like low progesterone, or high estrogen, or whatever ? High dht levels are for sure, but again, it is a loop , cause we have the higher hormones levels when we are young . Plus, may be this can happen ( this " hormone imbalance " to any person, but if you don't have the fucked genes, you will not go bald, will not have acne, etc ) .

Any ideas ? Any study that I am not seeing ? For example , I couldn't find a single study on male pattern baldness and progesterone ( that it block both, aromatase and 5-alpha-reductase ) .
thanks

 

[Selb]

It is a really simple question, that we don't have an answer .
We know that level of DHT, higher they are, higher the chances to go bald ( if you have the genes) . Actually , the best treatment are finasteride and dutasteride ( lest forget a minute about a side effect )

But everyone have their higher hormonal levels when they are teens. So why , all that we have genetic predisposition to bald , don't start to receding while we are teens ? I my case, I started when I was 17 years old. My best friend at that age had a full head of hair, now, with 42, he is a Norwood 7 ( started to lose his hair at 32 ) . Actually, I have more hair now cause drugs than him

What if is something more than just DHT levels ? like low progesterone, or high estrogen, or whatever ? High dht levels are for sure, but again, it is a loop , cause we have the higher hormones levels when we are young . Plus, may be this can happen ( this " hormone imbalance " to any person, but if you don't have the fucked genes, you will not go bald, will not have acne, etc ) .

Any ideas ? Any study that I am not seeing ? For example , I couldn't find a single study on male pattern baldness and progesterone ( that it block both, aromatase and 5-alpha-reductase ) .
thanks

The aggression of your baldness most likely has something to do with how sensitive your follicles are to androgens. I think this sensitivity is a product of some hormonal imbalance between testosterone and epitestosterone in your scalp. These hormones are encoded by genes to be at certain amounts, with some environmental influence mixed in.

There are some other factors but that’s what determines I think the speed at which you bald.

 

[Will Be an Egg in 5 years]

Genetics, but for sure there are enviromental issues that acelerate it.

My NW7 grandfather had a worse hairline than me at 19. I'm still diffusing in the same patterns anyway, just slower. And he had prostate cancer, so, for sure there's something behind it.

 

[jamesbooker1975]

But we all agree that is not just High DHT plus bad genes , there must be something more than science , yet , have to explain it .