Why Do Men Lose Hair in the Same Spots? 👨🦲
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Morning Lebron!
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Pull it back.
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Pull. It. Back.
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Woahhhhhh!
Put it back dude!
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I’m sorry.
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Hey, bud!
Don’t be sad.
This happens to almost every guy.
But why do men all bald in the same spots?
Well – in most men – the first sign of balding appears at the temples.
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Then – as if God was like ‘let me just keep kicking him while he’s down’ – you start losing some hair on your crown. The top of your head:
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Then it’s just a really unfortunate race to the middle…
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F*ck.
They met up.
That happened really fast.
Why?
Basically at the microscopic level, hair goes through specific growth phases:
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The first phase is called anagen. 2-6 years of growth that takes a little hair seed and creates a thick hair.
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Once the hair has matured, it moves into a short resting phase – telogen.
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The blood supply is removed, the hair falls out, and the growth cycle begins again.
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But this is where men have a problem.
Because they’ve got so much TESTOSTERONE, they’ve also invited in testosterone’s bigger, bolder cousin: Dihydrotestosterone (DHT).
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And DHT isn’t nice at all.
DHT shortens that hair follicle growth phase.
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So hairs that were once long and thick become shorter and thinner because they have less time to grow.
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This sensitivity to DHT affects certain parts of the scalp more than others, which is why every dude ends up like this:
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The cure?
Just get some Rogaine.
It works for most men.
Stay Cute,
Henry & Dylan 🌈
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