Male Pattern Baldness: How Bad Is Your Hair Loss

Baldness has a social stigma that continues to mock men’s self-esteem and virility. Pattern baldness or androgenetic alopecia is the name for that very common hair loss condition suffered by 40 percent of men in their mid-20s and which remains to affect nearly half of the world’s male adult population.

Although androgenic alopecia affects women too, pattern baldness in men is more drastic in a way it allows more than 75% of scalp hair to be completely gone, leaving only a smooth, barren target for other people to poke fun at.

Male pattern baldness (MPB) usually runs in the family. This genetic factor makes the scalp hair follicles sensitive to the build-up of an aggressive androgen metabolite called dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Excessive DHT block the bloodstream that carry food and oxygen to the hair follicles.

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