Too much DHT or genetic abnormality?

[Siberian]

What's the difference between men who bald and those who don't?

Is it that balding men have more DHT than non-balding men? That is, our follicles are all the same, but since baldies have excessive DHT, their DHT-sensitive follicles start dying off? This would imply that you could shoot a non-balding person up with DHT, and they would start going bald.

Or do we all have the same DHT levels, only balding men have different, DHT-sensitive follicles ? This would imply you could shoot a non-balding person up with DHT, and they still wouldn't go bald.

 

[Axon]

Yes, a good question.

The simple answer? Nothing really. It's just that some men (and their hair) are less affected by DHT.

 

[Siberian]

The simple answer? Nothing really. It's just that some men (and their hair) are less affected by DHT.

So in theory, if I switched scalps with a non-balding guy, I'd keep my new hair, and he would lose (what's left of) his new hair?

 

[-cj-]

People with male pattern baldness are predisposed to have follicles sensitive to DHT.

 

[Bryan]

This question comes up fairly regularly. Studies do seem to show that balding men average somewhat higher levels of androgens than non-balding men, but I think the more significant factor is that they're more sensitive to those androgens.

Bryan

 

[Axon]

The simple answer? Nothing really. It's just that some men (and their hair) are less affected by DHT.

So in theory, if I switched scalps with a non-balding guy, I'd keep my new hair, and he would lose (what's left of) his new hair?

Your body would be like, no. If you somehow fooled it, then yeah.

However! There is hair on your body that is not DHT sensitive, e.g., the sides. Think of it that way.