What is Baldness or Balding?

Many young men who have already lost or began to lose their hair may consider this a pointless question. They are too unhappy about their thinning hair to care much about what causes it. For although baldness is not a physical disability, most men find it depressing because they think it detracts from the appearance, as l certainly did.

It is said that baldness is connected to the male hormones Called androgens. One hair loss advisory Clinic Claims the Cause is influenced by a male hormone, a derivative of testosterone known as dihydrotestosterone. I myself do not believe it has anything to do With hormones, as it is only scalp hair that is lost. l have never met or even seen anyone who is going bald at the side of their head. Neither have l ever witnessed someone who has lost an eyebrow. Only in cases of alopecia where all of the scalp hair is lost, but in cases of alopecia it does eventually grow back. l have never met anyone whose pubic hair has fallen out. It does sound funny that these hormones which are carried all around the body in the blood stream only Work on the top of your head. Baldness is not related to frequent washing or Wearing of hats. Most people start to wear hats after the balding process has already started to Cover up their baldness.

Baldness is referred to as male pattern baldness. Yet different people start balding in different areas, some start at the crown others at the temples. In some Cases both the crown and temples together. The only pattern I can see is the end result of people who have gone very bald.

My Theory To what causes baldness is a poor supply of blood to the capillary network in the scalp. This can be Caused by a number of things stress, hormones, or gravity. As we have just seen in Figure 21 there are different patterns of balding or baldness. Where you can also see the arterial supply to the face and scalp. Even in the most extreme case of male pattern baldness hair is retained at the back and sides where the blood supply is abundant except in cases of alopecia.

Called male pattern baldness, yet it is not only defined to men. Women lose hair as they age. By the age of 40, 25 per cent of women have developed some thinning and recession and by fifty, fifty per cent have had some hair loss. As you will see women also only lose hair in the male pattern baldness region.