23 June 2008

The real hair problem started to appear…

About 95% of hair loss in men is attributable to Androgenic Alopecia also know as male pattern baldness.

The responsible is the Dihydrotestosterone (DHT), definitely you can easily find scientific information about the DHT on the net, however its worse effect is that it shrinks the hair follicles that will become permanently ‘shut down’.

It is important to note that SOME areas are more sensitive to DHT, and these will be the areas that will the affected by baldness… (i.e. the frontal and crown areas). On the other hand, hair from the back of the head are ‘immune’ to DHT, so if we ‘relocate’ the hair from the back to the front then we could be almost sure to eliminate the baldness problem.
And Androgenic Alopecia was my problem.

Of course other conditions can produce baldness (the remaining 5% of the cases):

Alopecia Areata, in which hair comes out by the roots in one or more spots without following the normal Stages, see the above figure).
Finally, other caused can be: scalp infections, nutritional deficiency, illness, drugs and chemicals, radiations, pulling (Traction Alopecia, if you guys have long hair do not tie it too tightly!!!) and severe stress.
Anyway, none of these last causes were my problem...

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