Androgenetic Alopecia:
Why Does it Affect
Both Men and Women?

Up to 80% of all men and 50% of women will eventually experience some form of hair loss. And, in most cases, androgenetic alopecia is to blame!


What Does Androgenetic Alopecia Look Like?

This condition (which is also known as androgenic alopecia) causes hair to grow progressively thinner and weaker until eventually it falls out. And, in many cases, most of this hair does not regrow. Male pattern baldness (MPB) and female pattern baldness (FPB) will then develop. In the picture opposite, 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.

For men, MPB always follows what seems to be a pre-set area (or pattern) of loss within the scalp. This eventually gives rise to the final outcome shown above.

For women, FPB normally appears as diffuse thinning on the crown of the scalp. Diffuse thinning 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 of hair loss as well as men because it's not just men who produce testosterone: women also produce it (albeit in much lower levels from their adrenal glands).

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 at the front and back (which initially seem to cause hair loss to lesser extents), in almost all cases, the genetic hair loss process will insidiously continue until the familiar and extreme male pattern baldness region of loss has emerged.

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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.

The actual mechanism behind this condition is called skull expansion. And if you suffer from hair loss, you really should find out how skull expansion causes androgenetic alopecia.