What's the deal with all these young people going bald?

how about this theory? microscopic mites living in the follicles!

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/pestalert/acne.htm

"When something causes the mites to reproduce at a higher rate, they can break out of the hair follicle and may cause acne, hair loss and other skin conditions," Butler said. "In some cases, the interaction with mites causes skin to actually slough off."
 
You're all missing the the most important question:

Why are British men having to look like convicts? Britain has the highest incidence of male-pattern baldness in the world. Why is that? What are we being fed that makes this so, because it certainly ain't genetics. This has started in the last thirty years or so.

I think there's something in the food and water making British men bald.

What alarmed me was a programme on telly showing the competitors in the world table tennis championship. There were men from every continent and the only one with male pattern baldness was the British guy, and he was of asian descent. The "foreign" asians had spectacular heads of hair.
 
kwerk said:
I haven't looked around much but there are some articles that suggest estrogen has something to do with it. Heavy drinking, stress and obesity all raise estrogen. Beer is especially estrogenic, it's full of phytoestrogens on top of the alcohol.

It's all linked together with feedback loops, if one get's out of wack it can mess up everything else.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/29/science/baldness-tie-to-estrogen-seen.html
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the only proven one is dihydrotestosterone, and only a small proportion of your testosterone is DHT but it's the really androgenic version (manlifying) causes baldness on you head but more hair elsewhere.

You're always talking about oestrogen in food but if it's anything like testosterone none of that is getting past your liver, the main source of oestrogen in your body is from testosterone, it's why steroid users (which is basically testosterone) have to be careful they don't grow boobies as while they have 10 times the testosterone of a normal man that means they have about 4 times the oestrogen of the normal woman.
 
Tefal said:
the only proven one is dihydrotestosterone, and only a small proportion of your testosterone is DHT but it's the really androgenic version (manlifying) causes baldness on you head but more hair elsewhere.

You're always talking about oestrogen in food but if it's anything like testosterone none of that is getting past your liver, the main source of oestrogen in your body is from testosterone, it's why steroid users (which is basically testosterone) have to be careful they don't grow boobies as while they have 10 times the testosterone of a normal man that means they have about 4 times the oestrogen of the normal woman.
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There is a lot of studies that dietary estrogens certainly can get past your liver.
With beer in particular you have the alcohol, then the hops or whatever has plant estrons and also the plastic linings of the cans are estrogenic!

First one I found on google:

Alcoholic beverages contain not only alcohol but also numerous other substances (i.e., con-
geners) that may contribute to the beverages’ physiological effects. Plants used to produce
alcoholic beverages contain estrogenlike substances (i.e., phytoestrogens). Observations that
men with alcoholic cirrhosis often show testicular failure and symptoms of feminization have
suggested that alcoholic beverages may contain biologically active phytoestrogens as con-
geners. Biochemical analyses have identified several phytoestrogens in the congeners of
bourbon, beer, and wine. Studies using subjects who produced no estrogen themselves (i.e.,
rats whose ovaries had been removed and postmenopausal women) demonstrated that phyto-
estrogens in alcoholic beverage congeners exerted estrogenlike effects in both animals and
humans. Those effects were observed even at moderate drinking levels.
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http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh22-3/220.pdf
 
Well you do notice that half your study group is people with destroyed livers don't you?


So kwerk in your fight against oestrogen you going to start taking breast cancer treatments to nuke all the oestrogen in your body?

You know you can buy kits to test your various oestrogen levels, you could find out just how screwed you are.
 
http://ezinearticles.com/?Estrogen---Is-This-Natural-Hormone-Slowly-Killing-Us?&id=631051

This is interesting although I'm not sure how accurate it is.

Some studies suggest that hair loss and baldness may be associated with high-fat diets. High fat diets stimulate estrone, which is converted to bad estrogen. DHT (Di-hydroxytestosterone) can cause hair loss. However, testosterone actually can assist or enhance scalp hair, provided that estrogen levels are okay. DHT should comprise one-fourth to one-third of total androgen count.

Excess estrogen blocks testosterone receptors and DHT becomes dominant. Fatty tissue is loaded with aromatase enzymes that convert testosterone to estrogen. The best approach to combat estrogen dominance in both men and women is to exercise, improve diet and take nutritional supplements that decrease estrogen production.
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Maybe the alcohol intake is also tying up the liver's ability to break down estrogen at a normal rate? So binge drinking would be terrible for it. Also a high fructose intake would possibly be bad.
 
meh if you are concerned about it there are many pharmaceutical products that inhibit or remove oestrogen.
 
kwerk said:
Says here birth control pills contain straight up estrogen.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a601050.html

Many 28-tablet packets have certain color tablets that contain different amounts of estrogen and progestin, but also may have other color tablets which contain an inactive ingredient or a folate supplement.
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it's not saying that pure oestrogen as it is in your body can't be taken in orally, but the compounds in the pill will be converted to oestrogen.
 
kwerk said:
..nearly everyone I went to school with..
Prince William is a good example:

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Worst "I went to school with Prince William" thread evar.
 
hereditary baldness is passed down through your mother, so it's people on her side of the family you should be looking at to measure your chances of losing your hair :)
 
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