Gianfranco Zola, stress & male pattern baldness

[ali777]

It'd be interesting to see how much stress raises DHT levels. I doubt it's very much. There are plenty of studies which say "food x raises hormone y", but when you get down to the level of effect, there really is precious little difference. Green tea might reduce DHT levels, but it does so to such a limited amount that nobody treats male pattern baldness with it. The same works with stress in reverse.

I think it's really a problem of misattributed causation. If someone starts losing their hair - Zola, for example - they realize that they're under stress, and say: "aha! the stress is the cause of my hair loss!"

Except it isn't. Plenty of people are stressed all the time. They don't lose their hair. Plenty of people are relaxed most of the time - and do lose their hair.

In male pattern baldness genetics trumps all.

No one claims that it's not the genetics.... However, genetics + stress kills your hair.

For something to be attributed to something else as a cause there must be a "statistically significant" correlation. What statistically significant means would depend on the subject. Eg, a hormonal change of 5% is very likely to be considered a minor change and such findings wouldn't be published.

 

[s.a.f]

But the point is if Zola thinks that he's going bald because he's football manager he's deluded, he'd still be going bald if he was sat in his mansion living off his million$.

 

[ali777]

But the point is if Zola thinks that he's going bald because he's football manager he's deluded, he'd still be going bald if he was sat in his mansion living off his million$.

It is probable that his hair would have been thinning at a slower rate...