What Type of Male Hair Loss
Do You Have?

This is a very important question to answer. And, whilst the vast majority of male hair loss cases are caused by androgenetic alopecia, you should ask this question to your doctor or a hair specialist if you are unsure.

This page will help identify which type of male hair loss affects you, and what other types can affect men.

Nearly everyone seems to know that the main type is called male pattern baldness. But this is not the only type of hair loss men can suffer.

There Are Many Types of Male Hair Loss

However, in the vast majority of cases, male hair loss is caused by androgenetic alopecia (male pattern baldness). In fact, up to 80% of all men will experience some form of hair loss, and in over 95% of these cases, this will this be due to male pattern baldness.

Androgenetic Alopecia

The scientific name for male pattern baldness is alopecia androgenetica. And, as the name suggests, it involves androgens (male sex hormones) and is a genetic condition that can be passed from one generation to the next. Sometimes it can also skip a generation. So, for example, if your mothers' father went bald, you too are at high risk (and this is regardless of whether or not your father went bald). This type of male hair loss is very easy to spot - this picture shows a typical example.

However, given time, wherever it starts, eventually this type of hair loss nearly always seems to spread across the whole male pattern baldness region and (more or less) resemble the picture above.

Does all this look and sound familiar?

If it does, use this link to learn more - click here for androgenetic alopecia.

The true cause of androgenetic alopecia has now been identified as skull expansion. Skull expansion is directly responsible for both male and female thinning hair, hair loss and alopecia. You can find out more (and how the hair loss industry got it wrong) with:

"Skull Expansion - True Cause of Genetic Hair Loss".

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Alopecia Areata

If your hair loss is patchy, and falls out extremely quickly (i.e. overnight and in clumps) then it's probably alopecia areata (or one of its related conditions: alopecia totalis and alopecia universalis). This type of hair loss also has a genetic connection and so can affect men and women. It is, however, very rare - only 1% of the population suffers from it (mostly women). However, if you recognise this type of hair loss from the picture, click here - alopecia areata. Click here for alopecia totalis and alopecia universalis.

Telogen Effluvium

This is another type of hair loss that mostly affects women - chronic telogen effluvium (CTE) has been linked to an iron deficiency, and a gradual iron depletion can result from the loss of blood during menstruation.

However, vegetarians may also suffer a lack of iron intake (the richest source of iron is from red meat). And so CTE can also be a type of male hair loss.

It takes the form of thinning hair in men and women (which can also be called "diffuse thinning" or, evenly distributed hair loss).
Click here for telogen effluvium.

Traction (Friction) Alopecia

Have you ever heard that excessive wearing of helmets or baseball caps can cause hair loss? Find how much truth lies in this rumour -
traction alopecia.

Chemotherapy Hair Loss

Cancer incidence between men and women varies (depending on the type of cancer involved). However, the powerful chemicals used to treat any form of this disease can carry the side effect of hair loss. As such, this type of hair loss can affect both men and women.
Click here - chemotherapy hair loss.

Other types of hair loss

There are other (extremely rare) types of hair loss that also exist. To find out whether you have some rare form of hair loss, click here.

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