Confused about the genetic part :)

[armandein]

Hi Lux;

i am with you, all healthy scalp hairs have the same DNA and genetical expresion.
can you cite literature about your comment "Russian science has already developed the way to scan the cell waves and to place that waves into another one cell so it changes the genes of the cell"

Scalps hairs around hair are, supposedly, inert to androgens. I disagree, but ....

Armando

 

[barcafan]

The genetic part of hair loss might be referring to the number of DHT receptors that an individual has on their scalp. The more DHT receptors that an individual has on their scalp, the more hair they are going to lose.

Everyone has a different number of DHT receptors on their scalp, and this is one of the reasons for the varying degrees of hair loss that people experience.

I think people pay far too much attention to factors having to do with the overall strength of the androgenic stimulus (like the numbers of androgen receptors, the amount of testosterone that's produced, the amount of the 5a-reductase enzyme that converts it to DHT, etc.), and overlook the manner in which hair follicles respond to the androgenic stimulus (which gets far more to the root of the problem). For example, scalp hair follicles and body hair follicles react in a completely OPPOSITE way to androgens (androgens are actually good for body hair), but that clearly has nothing to do with androgen receptors and those other things. We will have the final answer to balding when we can develop treatments that can change that overall response of hair follicles to androgens. Until then, we're just treading water and biding our time with antiandrogens, 5a-reductase inhibitors, and androgen receptor suppressors.

Is male pattern baldness evolutionary?