What do we know about the perfectly functioning follicle?

[cyberprimate]

Your question reminds me of psychology. Until recently the only focus was on mental illness. Studying the notions of psychological well-being or happiness has quite enlightened the understanding we had of mental suffering.

But to get back to hair loss, first we should define what what a perfectly functionning follicle is. Do follicles from the back and sides are perfectly functionning or are they suffering like balding ones but just much less?

 

[cyberprimate]

hairs in the "horseshoe" are effected by androgens as well but to a lessor extent.

That gets us back to the question of why there's such a gap like difference. Why would nature program follicles on the galea to be so much more responsive to dht than on the horseshoe?… But that's another thread.