Reason for man getting bald younger

[Private Ryan]

there is an interview on the news with a Dermatologist(below is the link to her website) and she state that the main reason for the more and more younger man losing hair is due to smoking and trying to lose weight(poor diet)... i think it is not totally true in a way...

http://www.eileentanskin.com/

 

[DownTheDrain]

I don't think that totally is accurate.

I do think that health does have some part to play in hair loss and including what our daily life is like. But I don't think thats the main reason to hair loss.

I have never smoked and consider myself to be healthy and fit. But I am still losing hair. :shock:

 

[iamnaked]

The gene for male pattern baldness is a dominant gene. Thus as you go through the generations, the gene will on average be expressed more strongly, leading to a younger age at which one goes bald.

 

[BG Guy]

Yeah Id say that not too accurate....

I never smoked and have a pretty good diet and im here :?

 

[Wezz]

its all about family

 

[michael barry]

Diet.

High glycemic index diets cause insulin-resistance. The body will get the adrenal glands to make more testosterone as a response and synthesize less globulin.


Globulin is the sex-binding hormone that carries testosterone around your body in a bound form so it cannot be used. Less globulin means more free testosterone to be turned into DHT> Got it?


Eating less soya and more saturated fats from dairy and red meat products, along with more starchy sugary foods has seen the Japanese see a marked increase in baldness since WW2. Keep that in mind. Another thing to keep in mind.....................read a few nights before you as a newbie jumps on a posts. You'll stand a much lessened chance of posting personal opinions that are flat out wrong, thus misleading others.

 

[Thinning]

Its from beating off too much!


j/k.

 

[Solo]

It´s curious since both circumstances concur when I my hair-loss started.


I lost like 15 Kg of fat, after four months of a strict diet and heavy exercising (running).

The next month I started smoking as an habit during my vacations.


Four months later I met for the very first time with Mr. Norwood, when I noticed a wider hair part in the top of my head, even wider at vertex.


f*****g hell, I could not believe this without any biochemical mambo-jambo, but it could be definitely related.

I´ve never thought about it.

Well, lately I´ve been considering seriously to quit smoking, and this could be an extra motivation. Quitting this sh*t is f*****g difficult.

I´m going to f*****g think my hair is improving every second of my nicotine withdrawal, maybe this way I could resist temptation.

Well, we´ve mentioned Bill Hicks in the Off Topic section, so I´m going to quote him:

"(when quitting smoke)...every single cigarette seems like it was made by God, rolled by Jesus and impregnated in Claudia Schieffer´s pussy right now."

 

[Boru]

These are all red herrings, smoking mooses and gulping galloshes.
It is a little switch in the follicles, which can be switched off. to some degree by drugs, and topical rubs, etc. though expense and dedication and determination and genes all play a part. The world is melting fast, which gets me more worries than my regrowing hair can keep up with. I found a partial solution. Will it outlast the life of the planet though?
Boru

 

[JayB]

come on with that smoking thing. smoking was much more common way back when then it is now..in fact if u look at pictures of your grandfather and great grandfathers(i have) almost every male will have a cigarrette in his hand(at least in my family) but i think this is rather common.

smoking may exacerbate the problem, but it is not the reason. thats plain old speculation with no scientific basis.

 

[Private Ryan]

i agree with everyone... i think diet and smoking might make thing worst for those with male pattern baldness therefore maybe the hairloss look worst when they are younger rather than tiggering male pattern baldness in man...

those guys sooner or later is going to have hairloss but maybe this 2 factors accelarate the process...

i think smoking is bad for overall and skin health... so why not? Diet? unless it is really bad like starvation, which some do for weight loss, i doubt it going to do much...

JayB, are you a smoker? yours look like typical smoker response i got from friends about smoking and health... haha...

 

[powersam]

does this mean your on my side michael barry?

 

[Guest]

This is total bullshit in those men who are genetically predisposed to lose hair. Because they will lose it anyway, no matter what they do. No matter if they follow a good diet or not, or if they train hard every day in gym, they will lose it anyway.

On those who are not genetically predisposed, but lose it anyway, then it is possible. But they represent a very small percentage of all the male pattern baldness guys.

All the guys I know that smoke and have abullshit diet, have a full head of hair. And some have smoked for over 40 years and are granfathers.

And they have more hair than king kong.

But again, they are not genet. predis. to lose it.

 

[michael barry]

Before WW2 in Japan baldness was very rare. Now its getting closer to our own level. Japanese here have about the same incidence of androgen related disorders as the general population (being acne, prostate, baldness).

http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C489728.html Might ought to read that one for starters. There are many more articles on this subject than that though.


By the way, some men, like my uncles have really good hair genes and perhaps none of the 4 known baldness genes on their DNA code. However, many men have varrying sensitivity to androgens encoded. Perhaps they are to naturally begin to thin in their thirties, forties, or fifties. With an awful hair-un-healthy diet, they might be able to speed that process up about a decade. Think about it. High amounts of globulin keep excess T away from your hair where it can be converted by the alpha five reductase type two enzyme in your Outer Root Sheath on EACH AND EVERY HAIR ON YOUR HEAD to DHT> ......Research this angle some. Its free help

 

[JayB]

i agree with everyone... i think diet and smoking might make thing worst for those with male pattern baldness therefore maybe the hairloss look worst when they are younger rather than tiggering male pattern baldness in man...

those guys sooner or later is going to have hairloss but maybe this 2 factors accelarate the process...

i think smoking is bad for overall and skin health... so why not? Diet? unless it is really bad like starvation, which some do for weight loss, i doubt it going to do much...

JayB, are you a smoker? yours look like typical smoker response i got from friends about smoking and health... haha...

I dont understand your response, nor why you pointed at me. I made a valid point in that more people smoked and ate worse 40 years ago than they did now. WIth all the knowledge regarding health we have now, it should be the exact opposite. Less men should be going bald young today since less men today smoke. More men smoked in the past, thus more men should have gone balder earlier than they do today. The point the author made is invalid. Case closed. and no, i dont smoke by the way.

 

[powersam]

i'm afraid it must be said goodguy that you have only a very small understanding of what your talking about.