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The only fully bald guy I can trace in my family is my great-great grandfather, who was born in the mid 1800s. Other than that there's some temple recession for my maternal uncles (one is nw2.5, other is nw3 by middle age), but my maternal grandad, great-grandfathers were nw2 into old age. As...

There's definately other factors at play with baldness...it's obviously not just genes alone. I doubt it's posture though, probably some undiagnosed inflammatory issue e.g. poor thyroid function, cortisol or hormonal imbalances that combine with androgenic alopecia. I notice that a lot of men...

Is it a genetically programmed pattern? i.e we're randomally allocated sensitive follicles in a certain pattern (via genetic/family balding pattern)? or is it determined by your skull shape? It's kinda weird how people bald in completely different patterns and some areas of the scalp remain...

Mature hairline is not a myth...it's just slow or stabilized recession, which more or less stays that way (but can shift later in life). If it was a myth then every guy who loses his juvenile hairline would end up bald. Example: Daniel Day Lewis young...

I'd say Norwood 1.5.

male pattern baldness is so unpredictable...for some NW3 is a "mature hairline". Look at Lee Marvin in his mid 20s: http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/8258/9689494_1.jpg?v=8CCF7DF13BE3EC0. If you saw a guy with that hairline you'd presume he'd be bald by his 40s, but here he is as an old man...

Mature hairlines DO exist. I just have to look at family pics for proof. Both my grandfather's have been NW2 since there 30s and still have thick hair and never gone past NW2.5. Likewise my great grandfather who receded a bit but never thinned. Unfortunately I'm heading down my uncles NW3/vertex...

Something's going on...I think chronic stress is a big contributer. We live in an era where people are bombarded with constant mental stressors. There's almost no respite from it. I'm pretty sure stress speeds up male pattern baldness for those who are susceptible.

Often I wonder if head shape determines your balding pattern. it seems to me that certain head shapes often seem bald differently, which makes me think that your pattern is partly influenced by skull shape. Balding men with a defined ridge/pointed skull tend to recede heavily but often keep...

What triggered this thought was seeing a pic of Bill Murray and his son who share the same pattern of recession. Here's Bill Murray in his 30s: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iGOXCX7bCTY/VFUaLJKxKEI/AAAAAAAAPsU/GoxlSdWEs5M/s1600/BillMurray-Stripes.gif and here's his son who's now in his 30s who...

Often it's not weakness though, maybe a guy just doesn't want a shaved head and would rather just make do with what he's got (of course if you're aggressively balding, your options are limited - but for most guys baldness is gradual). As long as you're not hiding anything surely it's a more...

Maybe it's because I've been watching a lot of old movies and comedies from the 70s/80s where actors didn't shave their heads to deal with male pattern baldness (think Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, George Carlin, Bill Murray, but I kinda admire how they didn't give a flying f*** about balding. I...

There's just too many examples of men with poor craniofacial development who have full heads of hair. Look at this guy's full head of hair and craniofacial: https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/portrait-of-a-senior-man-picture-id56163430?s=2048x2048 Ozzy Osbourne has no male pattern baldness...

There's got to be more to it than just DHT sensitivity. Some men recede to nw3 and never lose the central part of their hair:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zVnOXe-Plpk/T0Y3tPmuY1I/AAAAAAAACDw/0zhnAInHZHc/s1600/leemarvin.jpg Some men's hairline never recedes but they develop bald spot...

Did the diffuse thinning ever grow back after stopping massage? I've been doing the scalp massage method for 6 months and have experienced the same thing. First of all the minaturised hairs around the temples shed out, but now I'm seeing widespread thinning behind the hair line and ontop. While...