I kind of agree
I rarely see premature hair loss among professional sport players. And I see even fewer men with premature Androgenetic Alopecia among professional swimmers and water polo players.
Is it just observation bias, is it because they are young, or maybe there's a link here. I'd assume water sport players especially water polo players have abundant brown adipose tissue.
What is your opinion?
I do notice this as well. Almost everyone on here will suggest theres no link and there very well may not be, but as an athlete I have noticed something quite specific. I played hockey my entire life, from age 4 to about 21. I started losing hair around 18 and this wasn't common amongst my peers. However, watching several of my friends, all of my male cousins, and current professionals I am quite familiar with, everyone who was predisposed to genetic hair loss at an early age seemed to show initial signs but they almost uniformly maintain very minimal loss until a year or so after stopping. My cousin for example showed signs of Androgenetic Alopecia at 17 and continue playing high exertion sports until he was 22. His hair loss moved at an extremely glacial pace until he stopped competing at such a high level on such a frequent basis and he then lost all of his hair within 12 months. Furthermore, there are athletes who now play professional that I played with growing up. Some of these same kids showed early signs of Androgenetic Alopecia and have almost all maintained there minimal loss while I have struggled much more.
This is by no means science and could quite possibly be mere coincidence, but normally early loss is the most aggressive. Maybe professional athletes are better equipped financially or medically to treat or maintain hair loss, or maybe 'just maybe' there is a link between the rate of hair loss and sedentary life style.
Im not suggesting you can treadmill your hair back to life. NO. But I am saying hair loss would not be the only medical condition I have that was mediated and kept at bay because of the continuous and extreme levels of exertion that comes with a juvenile sports schedule. Working out and the highest possible level of exercise 6 days a week.
Maybe in some fractional way, the excessive and intense blood flow helps to keep hormones flushing out and not becoming stagnant in there resting places.
I reiterate.. this is merely intuition not based in any scientific data. Please save your time shunning it, idc. Just my two cents.
