Why do men bald but women don’t?
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Women tend to suffer from more even hair thinning rather than male pattern baldness. That’s why older women often have poufy perms, which help give it body/hide then thinning.
Testosterone is a hell of a drug. It is responsible for hair growing all over the place and for having men go bald on their scalps.
And women do go bald. Just generally slower.
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Dihydrotestostetone (DHT). It’s one of the most potent androgens (sex hormones) implicated in male pattern baldness. There are other dermatologic causes for baldness (in men and women) but the most common cause for men is from DHT and other androgens.
There is at least one gene related to hair growth found on the X chromosome. Men only get one copy of this chromosome, thus if that one copy has a less effective hair growth gene that would give rise to baldness, that man will become bald. Women have two x chromosomes, thus both copies would have to have less effective hair growth genes for a woman to become bald.
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