When It Starts Is Of No Importance.

BaldingBeast666

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My grandpa was a thick NW1 through most of his life, went thick NW2 on his forties and then in his fifties went from NW2 to NW6 in a short amount of time. Instantly bald.
My father had his first signs of balding on his mid twenties, went NW2 with a DPA pattern, altho he had thick NW2 hair, so just by buzzing his sides and growing the top out, he looked like he a fullhead.
Now my father is in his fifties and he's still a NW2,5.

My father started balding much earlier than my grandpa, and yet his hair is still here.

I see people tell others "If you start balding in your twenties, you will go slick bald for sure" and "If you start balding in your forties/fifties, the max you will get is a NW3/4, you will never go full bald".

BULLSHIT.

If you start balding young, you're not doomed.
If you start balding old, you're not safe. No one is safe.

male pattern baldness is different for everyone.
I wonder what my future will be. My hair loss seems to have stopped for the time being, which might mean i'll follow in my father footsteps, although i'm still a bit scared since i can't really tell if my hair is worse than my father at his age, he looked like a f*****g fullhead on old photos, even though he said he started losing hair on his twenties too.
 

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You're right for your cases. But unfortunately on a statistical basis this is not bullshit. Statistically, if you start thinning as a teenager you have much more chances you will go NW6 before someone who starts thinning at 30.
 

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When i was 14,i saw my dad's elder brother having hairloss when we were in a car,he was about 45 at that time,he was looking if any hair is falling due to wind.
I was zero at that time,i never expected my baldness at that moment ,he still is Norwood 1+,
No receeding,just circle of 2 cm/3 cm is diffuse(hairloss= about 15 % only) at crown area after 15 years.
 

whatevr

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That's right. There is no "premature baldness". There is no "right" time to go bald.
Baldness may be more acceptable when you're older but it's still a dysfunction of the body. Your hair is meant to live as long as you do.
The very fact that there are NW1 grandpa's walking around (they are in the minority but their genes are clearly superior in this regard)
shows that male pattern baldness is NOT unavoidable, and as such should not be treated like a normal part of aging but a disease.
 

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I would love to know natures reason for baldness. Whether its some old sexyal signal to females or aomething.

Many would say its just a genetic mutation which it probably is..after all its highly inheritive and males would have breeded before they lost their hair
 

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You're right for your cases. But unfortunately on a statistical basis this is not bullshit. Statistically, if you start thinning as a teenager you have much more chances you will go NW6 before someone who starts thinning at 30.

link to said statistics or a study?
 

Bobster231

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I would love to know natures reason for baldness. Whether its some old sexyal signal to females or aomething.

Many would say its just a genetic mutation which it probably is..after all its highly inheritive and males would have breeded before they lost their hair


It's not nature. It's just unfortunately bad genes from your parents. Baldness can also skip a generation. So your parents or grandparents may not be to blame. It could be your great great grandfather who screwed you over.

male pattern baldness genes are unpredictable.

In fact I know of 3 brothers I went to school with, all in their 20's. Their father is a Norwood 6. Two of the brothers started balding early and both of them shaved their heads. I don't think they were slick bald but definitely Norwood 5's.

The middle child has no balding or recession at all. He remains a perfect Norwood 1.

How in the hell does that happen? Unless the gene hasn't kicked in yet for him.

I find that baffling.

Dad Norwood 6, both brothers NW5 and shaved their heads. Yet one brother has zero hair loss.
 

Saurabhaj

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It's not nature. It's just unfortunately bad genes from your parents. Baldness can also skip a generation. So your parents or grandparents may not be to blame. It could be your great great grandfather who screwed you over.

male pattern baldness genes are unpredictable.

In fact I know of 3 brothers I went to school with, all in their 20's. Their father is a Norwood 6. Two of the brothers started balding early and both of them shaved their heads. I don't think they were slick bald but definitely Norwood 5's.

The middle child has no balding or recession at all. He remains a perfect Norwood 1.

How in the hell does that happen? Unless the gene hasn't kicked in yet for him.

I find that baffling.

Dad Norwood 6, both brothers NW5 and shaved their heads. Yet one brother has zero hair loss.


Same here with my dad's bro,Eldest son is Norwood 0/1 at 60 plus,and my father and third one are Norwood 6.
and from female side,no child of my dad's sister are bald,all nw0.
 
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