Androgenetic Alopecia:
Why Does It Affect
Both Men And Women?

In most cases of hair loss, androgenetic alopecia is to blame. In fact, up to 80% of all men and 50% of women will experience some form of significant hair loss at some point in their lives.

What Does It Look Like?

In most cases of hair loss, androgenetic alopecia is to blame. In fact, up to 80% of all men and 50% of women will experience some form of significant hair loss

This condition is better known as male pattern baldness (MPB) or female pattern baldness (FPB). It can also be called androgenic alopecia. In this picture you can see a typical example of advanced hair loss. With extensive hair loss at the front, back, and crown, you can see the familiar male pattern baldness region has, in this very famous case, completely developed.

MPB always follows what seems to be a pre-set area (or pattern) of loss within the scalp. For men, this eventually gives rise to the final outcome shown above. But, for women, Androgenetic alopecia normally appears as diffuse thinning on the crown of the scalp. This is evenly distributed hair loss but it still makes the scalp much more visible (as you can see in this example). Women suffer this type as well as men because they too produce testosterone (albeit at much lower levels).

In this example, a receding hairline at the temples has begun and can clearly be seen - the rest of the scalp will be largely free from any significant hair loss at this stage.

In this picture, the hairline probably looks fine at the front, but a bald patch has developed at the back. Regardless of these variations (that initially seem to cause hair loss to lesser extents), in almost all cases, the hereditary hair loss process will insidiously continue until the familiar and extreme male pattern baldness region of loss has emerged.

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For some, androgenetic alopecia can impact on the scalp quite slowly over many years. But, for others, it happens extremely quickly.

If you look around you, you'll see people experiencing the various stages of hair loss shown above. In fact, everywhere you look - on TV, newspaper pictures, people you know, meet and see in the street - the same patterns of hair loss emerge time and time again.

You'll most probably see this in men of course. Women are far less tolerant of hair loss than the majority of men, and far more likely to cover it up. But, whether they're men or women, the really interesting thing is that these people can be of any age.

So, whilst baldness is, for most people, synonymous with the ageing process, it's not just the elderly who suffer extensive hair loss.

Men especially can become completely bald long before they reach the age of 30 due to androgenetic alopecia.

Some Frightening Facts!

Approximately 20% of men start to experience hair loss as early as puberty. Approximately 60% of men lose their hair more gradually.

(This means that, if you're a man, you have only a one in five chance of keeping a full head of hair for life!)

The diffuse alopecia (or thinning) form of androgenetic alopecia that women tend to suffer from is usually much more gradual than it is for men. This is simply because their androgen levels are much lower than they are in men. And, for the same reason, they are far less likely to form a bald patch at the back or a receding hairline at the front.

If you look at all those pictures again, you can appreciate that it's possible for hair to fall from the front (temple recession) without any significant loss at the back.

Alternatively, someone could experience baldness at the back with no loss at all from the front (the hairline remaining untouched).

And, should hair loss be really rampant, it can rapidly fall from both these areas at the same time. (In such cases, the entire male pattern baldness region of the scalp will shed hair simultaneously).

Obviously then, hair can fall faster in one region of the scalp than it does in another. Or, it may fall from both regions but at different times in a person's life - perhaps even years apart. As such, the rate of hair loss varies from person to person.

These facts are very important in understanding the process that causes androgenetic alopecia. But, they are almost completely ignored by hair loss specialists!

Remnant Hair - How Much Hair Will You Keep?

Many of those who are almost completely bald (men mostly) will still have strong hair growth within a small part of the male pattern baldness region. As you can see, this is mature (terminal) hair - very different from the fine (vellus) hair (or "peach fuzz") that can also grow on an otherwise completely bald scalp. This remnant hair might be grey or normal coloured, and can continue to grow throughout life despite baldness all around it.

This true mechanism behind this condition is called skull expansion. If you suffer hair loss, you really should find out how skull expansion causes androgenetic alopecia.