Are people getting balder per generation

[ozm8ey]

What the title says, do you think people are getting balder earlier per generation?

 

[Hairloss23]

Definitely, somewhere in our diets and lifestyles something has changed to trigger balding earlier, my grandad started balding in his late 20s, my dad in his early 20s, and me at 17. And from what I've seen I am not an isolated case of this.

 

[GoldenMane]

People are reaching puberty earlier too, and growing taller. I don't think this is a coincidence. Baldness is a hormonal problem and certain hormones are becoming active at younger ages. As to folliclular receptor sensitivity, I doubt anything has changed with them.

 

[J.WayneUK]

Definitely! Even in relation to 70s/80s generation, 90s and 00s generations are balding at an earlier age... why?????

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

People are reaching puberty earlier too, and growing taller. I don't think this is a coincidence. Baldness is a hormonal problem and certain hormones are becoming active at younger ages. As to folliclular receptor sensitivity, I doubt anything has changed with them.

It's not clear that Americans for example are still growing taller.

See this article:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98438

 

[J.WayneUK]

It's not clear that Americans for example are still growing taller.

See this article:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98438

Very interesting!!

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Humans starting to go bald while they're still teenagers has been around since the beginning of our existence, it's nothing new going on now.

 

[resu]

Not in real life, at least not here they aren't.

 

[abcdefg]

Not really just same as always.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

Nobody has posted actual data.

This isn't something you can gauge off intuition.

One possibility might be to look at college graduation pictures by decade. That would take actual work though.