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Testosterone and Male Pattern Baldness

You are an aggressive, highly sexed, macho male, the testosterone pumping through your body. You may be proud of your muscles, your sex drive, your testosterone-filled body. Yet the very thing that makes you a man tall and strong sexual can also go bald. And to add insult to injury – the more you lose hair on your head, you grow more hair in your ears, nose, upper back and shoulders.

The first sign that testosterone is linked to baldness in men were eunuchs, who unlike their uncut male friends, never lost her hair. Castrati in the fifteenth century Italian opera has always had a full head of hair. So has every soldiers whose battlefield injury occurred to include harm to the Center of testosterone and DHT production – the testicles. But the hormonal link in balding is complex. Eunuchs, who produce no testosterone, never go bald even if they have a baldness gene. However, if castrated men with a history Family of baldness are given testosterone, they lose hair in the classic horseshoe-shaped layout. So how testosterone affect baldness men?

Normally the scalp loses about 100 hairs per day and 100 new sprouts. But the sex hormone testosterone can upset this balance dynamics. Testosterone, as DHT, or dihydrotestosterone stimulates hair growth on face and body. But among men who have a certain common gene, the same hormone gradually defoliate the scalp, causing their heads aging grow while their brilliant ear, nose and shoulders grow more hair. The loss of scalp hair is affected by the conversion of testosterone into dihydrotestosterone (DHT). If there is already an inherited tendency for hair loss, chances are, your hair will thin and lead to male pattern baldness.

What is testosterone, hormone even in the womb of your mother made you instead of a male from a female, actually promote the loss of hair on his head? Studies show that if men did not balding higher than average circulating levels of testosterone, they have higher amounts means of DHT in the scalp follicles. So it is not testosterone itself, which highlights your shiny noggin. Converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) by an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase, which is produced in the prostate, various adrenal glands, and scalp. Over time, the action of DHT causes the hair follicle to degrade and shortens the active growth phase in the hair follicles. Although the follicle is technically still alive and connected to a good blood supply (it can grow successfully transplanted follicle which is immune to the effects of DHT), it will grow smaller and smaller as baldness in men is increasing. However, the sebaceous gland attached to it remains the same size. Whether the hair shafts become smaller, the gland continues pumping about the same amount of oil. As your hair thins, you will notice that your hair becomes flatter and oilier.

Some follicles will gradually die, but most will simply be reduced to the size they were when you were born. Meaning of hair that grows in these "baby" follicles is smaller, thinner, as it was when you were a couple of days. With a shorter growing steadily active follicles, more hair fall, hair becomes thinner and thinner until they are too fine to survive daily wear. Balding hair gradually changes from long, thick, coarse, pigmented hair into fine, UN-pigmented "peach fuzz" hair, just like those little fine hairs on your forehead or the cheeks of women.

But excessive DHT does not cause baldness in men alone. Most men who lose their hair have a hereditary disease called androgenic alopecia. If men have nevertheless increased levels of a hormone called 5-alpha reductase, which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), then in May they suffer from hair loss. The rate of hair shedding in androgenic alopecia is speeded by three forces: advancing age, an inherited tendency to bald early, and our already familiar, a friend excessive DHT in the follicle hair.

So who at most risk of hair loss? Genetically, blond-skinned men are more likely to lose their hair as hair and dark-skinned men. In addition, white men are much more likely to lose their hair than non-Caucasians. So if you're blond, fair complexion Caucasus, with a family history of baldness in men, you are many times more likely to lose your hair as a Japanese man, for example, or a man African-American.

Of course, genetics and over-production of DHT in the hair follicle are not the only causes of hair loss. Hair loss is exacerbated by your diet, which may affect the way your body produces hormones. In a recent study in Japan, it was found that More and more men suffer from baldness and hair loss the more Westernized diet becomes. It is known that fatty foods and red meat, two staples of a westernized diet, contribute to hair loss. And of course stress, which activates the production of adrenaline (the same Family testosterone), encourages hair loss too.

So what can you do except pray to wake up tomorrow as a great basketball player strapping black? Stay calm. Eating balanced and healthy, even adopt a more Eastern diet with more vegetables and soy products. But as far that male pattern baldness, remember this. There is nothing shameful. Your head bald and hair loss is just one way the nature of which indicates that you're a guy pumped to the gills with all the good things that makes you male sex – testosterone and DHT.

About the Author

Adam Milewski is co-founder of AMG, a company that provides a revolutionary
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