Balding in Older Men

[htownballa]

So this is what I am puzzling out--

As men age, their overall testosterone levels drop slightly. I assume that DHT levels also drop. Yet, many men either start to (or continue to) lose hair.

What is at play here? If DHT is the major culprit in hair loss, why wouldn't hair loss abate or remain a non issue as T and DHT levels decrease?
Could be that aging cells are simply more easily overcome by the impacts of DHT?

Why do a lot of males who are 40 and 50 + years old see a sudden increase in male pattern baldness levels? Due to aging?

 

[htownballa]

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[Apoc]

My theory: DNA chains in the cells get shorter and shorter as we grow older. That's why we become more susceptible to various diseases. It's the same with hairloss in my oppinion. Even old women often thin out dramaticaly. So I'd suspect that our follicles lose that DNA information that keeps the hair on our heads.

 

[HARM1]

So this is what I am puzzling out--

As men age, their overall testosterone levels drop slightly. I assume that DHT levels also drop. Yet, many men either start to (or continue to) lose hair.

What is at play here? If DHT is the major culprit in hair loss, why wouldn't hair loss abate or remain a non issue as T and DHT levels decrease?
Could be that aging cells are simply more easily overcome by the impacts of DHT?

Why do a lot of males who are 40 and 50 + years old see a sudden increase in male pattern baldness levels? Due to aging?

Well, DHT may reduce with age, but why would you expect hairloss to stop?
say someone is 33 and had lots of his hair, but some thining. Now this guy's balding is slow but is still hapening. his fallicles need much more DHT to bald. so time goes on, and while someone else with a a low DHT edge is balding our guy isn't. now he grows old, DHT GOES DOWN, THAT'S TRUE BUT DHT STILL HITS THE FALICLES. and - walla- the guy who needs much more dht to bald, finelly got the right emount. so true, DHT goes down, but don't forget the time factor!

 

[SecondComingOfDeaner]

Remember, alot of balding has to do with the susceptibility of the follicles to DHT. Everyone naturally has DHT in their scalps yet not everyone goes bald. In this case it isn't a matter of the DHT but a matter of the auto-immune response your body enacts with regards to the DHT. If your follicles are not susceptible to this response, then no matter how much DHT is coursing through your blood it will never matter. As you age, certain follicles that were once resistant to DHT fall prey to the same problem, and over time regardless of a drop in DHT, hair continues to thin and you continue to bald.

Hopefully I haven't missed/screwed anything up, but from many of the posts I've read over the last couple years this is my understanding.