What Cause Hair Loss In Men?

Male pattern baldness is the most common type of pattern baldness, which occurs across a wide variety of ages and health classes.

Though medical science is still unsure as to how male pattern baldness occurs in affected persons, medical doctors hold the solid belief that the interaction between DHT and testosterone has a large role in it. However, medical science still hasn’t pointed out the exact genetic switch that is responsible for the onset of baldness.

Androgenic Alopecia

Around 98% of all males who are suffering from baldness suffer from androgenic alopecia. The remaining 2% are losing hair because of other medical conditions such as thyroid malfunction and other diseases.

The first symptom that you potentially have androgenic alopecia is a receding hairline. Once a person reaches a mature hairline (no more than 3 inches from the third crease on the forehead), the hairline should not recede anymore. Normally, it takes a very long time before a person experiences a hairline recession without androgenic alopecia working alongside.

How The Pattern Balding Progresses?

From the receding hairline, male pattern baldness progresses to the crown region of the head. Eventually, the crown region begins to thin and eventually all the hair falls out, depending on the severity of the androgenic alopecia. It should be noted that the thinning of the crown region of the head could take a very long time.

Some people experience this phase for at least a decade or even more. For example, a typical balding male would notice his hair thinning in his mid-twenties; the process continues until his fifties or sixties until all the hair in the crown region is wiped out. If you’re already balding and you have a teenage son, you might want to observe whether he’s already experiencing from thinning hair.

50% gone !?

A few strands off during shower are okay, but if your teenager is losing hair while sleeping, there’s something wrong. There’s a reason why it’s so important to closely monitor the hair. Usually, people don’t notice that there is a problem until at least 50% of the hair is already gone. This is the time when the scalp begins to ‘shine’ through the density of the extant hair.

Dormant Genes

There’s a 50% chance that the genetic trait for balding would be passed on to your offspring. As a rule of thumb, people who have a bald great grandfather, bald great grandmother, etc. would be more prone to baldness than a person who had never seen a relative with a balding pate. However, this rule is not an ironclad rule. As with other things determined by genetics, there’s also a chance that one member of a ‘hairy’ family would end up balding in a few decades.

The gene responsible for androgenic alopecia may already be present in you, but it’s just dormant or inactive. Since it is still unclear as to how a dormant gene is activated, you should simply avoid the usual triggers. Alopecia triggers involve tobacco use, alcohol use, excessive stress and the presence of heavy metals in the environment. If you’re exposed to heavy metals on a daily basis, there’s a big chance that you would end up with a shiny head one day.

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