male pattern baldness and age

[Doom]

I can't understand why male pattern baldness hits some men at such a young age (17,18,19) and for others it starts later in life. (Over 30, 40 even 50) Does anyone know what triggers it ??? I've always wondered how long it took for someone like Patrick Stewart or Jason Alexander to reach that level of full blown, horseshoe head baldness. Decades ? Years ? Months ? Years ago I once thought I'd be totally bald in a year. Ten years later, my hair lives on but definitely thin. Right now I'm trying to hold off the enemy at the gates.

 

[jeffsss]

it's different for everyone.

triggering it?? this topic that has been discussed.. most people think it just happens..
could be an illness.. could be diet?
if we knew... then we could hold it off better.

and as far as hair loss.... for everyone.. it's different!

some people lose hair for a year.. then that's their hair for life! others (most) just continue to lose it and it could take 5-10 years to go completely bald..
and for the unfourtunate... could have a full head of hair to none in a couple years. :cry:

 

[Axon]

We know virtually nothing about the process behind male pattern baldness. At best, we have a minimal understanding of its mechanism, and a limited understanding of its cause.

 

[Doom]

It's an insidious process for sure. It's a damn shame that so many men have to be tortured by it. Hell, just thinking about it is an agony.
It sure would be nice if somone discovered a sure thing cure. Something that would make the baldest man regrow hair.

 

[andyhunt]

I can;t see there being a cure for decades however cloning is being trialled and hopefully in my lifetime, you will be able to have your hair back without scarring.

Image popping into a clinic to give a small hair sample then going back 6 months later to have 10,000's hairs implanted - cloned from that small sample.

 

[Axon]

I can;t see there being a cure for decades however cloning is being trialled and hopefully in my lifetime, you will be able to have your hair back without scarring.

Image popping into a clinic to give a small hair sample then going back 6 months later to have 10,000's hairs implanted - cloned from that small sample.

Although this would be excellent, I still feel that surgery has its limits. Obviously I'd prefer a "one-stop" pill, but I think that, despite its flaws, hair transplant surgery is going to be the top solution (as it already is, in many ways.).