frailstar said:
I'm very interested in diet and male pattern baldness. Seems to me that if you lower your cholesterol in your blood you automatically lower your DHT, because DHT needs cholesterol. Without it it doesn't exist. Japanese and their very unique eastern diet (until after World War 2) eat/ate tons of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and bits of soy (not soy isolate). After World War 2 their diet changed to a more western diet, they started developing male pattern baldness too. I say this change can be explained by total cholesterol in their blood. Vegetables and fruits sweep away cholesterol. Asians that eat a traditional eastern diet have very low total cholesterol in their blood compared to people in Europe and America. This is why a connection is found in heart diseease, prostate cancer and male pattern baldness. It's the cholesterol in the blood causing all 3.
This makes sense on paper, but not in the real world. I see younger men with unbelievable low cholesterol levels due to statins in the clinic all the time and they are still balding. Your body makes cholesterol whether you change or diet or you take medication. It needs it to make cell membranes and other molecules like sex hormones.
Also, the percent of individuals with male pattern baldness in Asian countries is far higher than people might think. It was fairly high before those countries were westernized and it likely increased as a result of the influx of western genes during various stages of human history including WWII.