Why do men have receding hairlines and pattern baldness, while women do not?
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Men produce testosterone, which is converted to DHT. DHT can bind to your hair follicles, causing them to shrink.
In women, testosterone is converted to estrogen. Less testosterone means that levels of DHT are significantly lower. Baldness in women tends to start after menopause, when estrogen production begins to decline.
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It’s the testosterone. Male pattern baldness is caused by a gene that makes hair follicles sensitive to testosterone and so slowly shrink due to lifelong exposure.
Women can have the same gene but don’t get hair loss from it because they don’t produce enough testosterone.
Women get female pattern baldness. It tends to start at the crown/back of the head. It can start later in life but I started getting it at 30, so I use Rogaine.
Testosterone. Anyone who starts losing their hair young, like in their late 20s to 30s, will probably have a high testosterone.
How do you get grey hair in your 30s? Stress. Stress and bad diet is what leads to baldness.
Unlike what is generally considered to be true, testosterone itself does not cause male pattern baldness, or all meatheads would be bald.
It is due to genetic factors and stressors, with emphasis on the latter. Nothing scares hair away quite like stress, which men have a lot more of.
As for the genetics, here’s where the testosterone comes into play. Some people are genetically sensitive to a byproduct of testosterone metabolism called dihydrotestosterone (DHT). They go bald whether they have a lot of testosterone or not, as long as there is some in the system. If only people with a high level of testosterone went bald, then they would also have a high amount of muscle mass and a lower amount of fat, which is not the case.
Read more [here](https://www.healthline.com/health/why-do-men-go-bald#main-cause-of-balding)
Women get it too, but their hair loss is more diffuse instead of at the hairline. Source: Me, I have it, it sucks. :-/ Confirmed via doctors as well. You can’t tell per se, but parts become much wider and you see more scalp. Ponytails become less thicker.
Are you not familiar with the Will Smith and Chris Rock debacle?
I’ve seen plenty of women with receding hairlines and very thin sparse hair on top.
Women got receding hairlines and pattern baldness too. We just can’t pull off a Friar Tuck, so we fixed it with the same methods as men.
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