Lifestyle, do you think it has an impact on male pattern baldness?

[CCS]

Yeah, I'm sure if you ride a bicycle all day and cut off circulation to your testicals, you make less testosterone and it helps your hair a bit, compared to weight lifting. Not nearly as much as taking propecia though.

That's a rather interesting line of thought...

Maybe I should cycle more. My lack of cycling might explain why my hair is thinning :dunno: :whistle: .

If you cut your balls off it will work even better. Someone Bryan posted did a follow up on like 30 castrated men, and looked at family photos before castration, and 20 years later. You can't count hairs in a photo, but every guy, regardless of if he was a kid with NW0 or was at NW4, had equally as much hair before and after, proving that castration completely stops hair loss for even 20 years.
Just another unhealthy think you can do to save your hair. Too bad the healthy activities don't help much. I'll still take a perfect physique and no hair over castration or alcoholism or obesity. Though of those 3, castration is probably healthiest.

 

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I think its pretty obvious just from a common sense approach that male pattern baldness is completely dependent on something related to being a man. Women generally have no or very slight Norwood 1 hairloss. So just from that and the fact some men are Norwood 1 at age 50 means lifestyle has absolutely nothing to do with it. Hormones or other factors like genes basically are in total control of male pattern baldness. I think Science is definitely getting closer to piecing this together.

 

[Thickandthin]

Little to no impact.

It's all genetic, sadly. If you are genetically destined to bald, you're gonna go bald no matter what. If you aren't, you'll never go bald. That's why some 60 year old homeless people still have full heads of hair, or concentration camp victims. While some 25 year old in perfect shape with perfect nutrition and no stress will be bald as a cue ball.

I think the only thing that can exacerbate male pattern baldness is by using steroids and greatly raising DHT levels.

 

[follicle84]

follicle84 wrote:
Things like stress, smoking, eating junk food all age you and so make you more prone to hairloss.

CCS wrote: Refuted time and again yet people keep saying it.

There was one small study which showed bald men tended to smoke more than non-balding men. I bet they drink more too because they are depressed about being bald. They did not show that either caused baldness. Instead, the beta sis in beer actually slows down hair loss by acting as an internal androgen receptor blocker. Alcohol also reduces testosterone production. Alcoholics get flabby, non-muscular bodies, and keep their hair better than non-alcoholics, but not nearly as effective as using propecia, which does not harm muscle growth like alcohol does.

Genetics and hormones are the main cause of hairloss. However the older you are the less defence you have against hairloss that is predestined. If this wasnt the case we would have alot more people bald at a younger ages than an older ages. Since things like smoking age you, which is a fact. It is likelly to effect your already determined hairloss. Say it would normally take 20 years to lose your hair normally and say smoking for ten years takes 1 year of your life off you. You would be bald in 18 years in stead of 20 that is the point i am trying to get at. Whats more interesting is the fact that as we get older are testosterone levels drop and yet hairloss seem worse in older people than younger people. Smoking is not a direct cause of hairloss, but its ageing effects can have an impact on it.