| There are approximately 75 million people in United | | | | Male pattern baldness is an inherited androgen |
| States alone struggling with male pattern baldness | | | | hormone driven condition that attacks and shrinks the |
| (androgenetic alopecia). While many experience the | | | | hair follicles over the course of a couple of hair cycles. |
| standard hair loss pattern others experience the | | | | It’s main facilitator is the androgen hormone |
| uncommon condition of male pattern baldness on one | | | | dihydrotestosterone that once converted from |
| side. In this informational article titled “Are You | | | | testosterone by the enzyme 5 reductase type 2 |
| Experiencing Male Pattern Baldness On One Side” | | | | residing in the hair cell binds to the follicle. As more and |
| we will explore the cause of the condition itself and | | | | more DHT builds up the follicle begins to shrink |
| what could be behind this abnormal type of pattern | | | | eventually reaching a point where it can no longer |
| baldness. | | | | participate in the hair replacement cycle. Over time |
| Hair loss is can be simply described as hair re-growth | | | | thousands of follicles will be damaged leading to |
| not keeping up with hair loss. This is indeed the case | | | | varying types and degrees of balding including male |
| with pattern baldness. | | | | pattern baldness on one side. |
| The average person can expect to lose about 100 | | | | Male pattern baldness on one side certainly is not the |
| hairs a day, most of which are replaced by the natural | | | | norm but it does happen. The reason for this is the |
| hair replacement cycle. And even if one loses a few | | | | configuration of hormone receptors and enzymes on |
| more hairs than are replaced it likely is not noticed due | | | | the scalp. Remember testosterone must be converted |
| to the over 100,000 scalp hair masking any minor hair | | | | to DHT by enzymes. So however your scalp was |
| loss. But if this imbalance continues for let’s say 5 | | | | configured early in life that is the pattern which |
| years, all of the sudden one day we look in the mirror | | | | androgenetic alopecia will follow. Certainly, there are |
| and to our horror a small bald spot has emerged along | | | | many different patterns including the aforementioned |
| with a great deal of thinning on top. If we were to | | | | male pattern baldness on one side. The truth of the |
| estimate an imbalance of 25 hairs a day over the | | | | matter is that no matter whether you have a |
| course of 5 years it would amount to 45,625 lost hairs | | | | conventional or unconventional form of this condition |
| and after 6 years the number would rise to 54,750. In | | | | the mechanism causing it is the same. The only clue as |
| other words somewhere between the fifth and sixth | | | | to what type of balding a person will incur could be |
| year we will have lost over 50 percent of all our | | | | gleamed from either one or both of their parents, due |
| existing hair. YIKS! | | | | to the link between genetics and balding. |