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Why Hair Loss Occurs in Old Men?
- By Brian Alexis
- Published 07/1/2009
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A quick look at any family reunion picture and you will come to the conclusion that every male, senior member of the family is predestined to some form of hair loss. While some people are liable to just laugh off this incidence as a natural thing, it would be enlightening to find out just what it is that makes hair loss a regular occurrence especially in old men.
1. Hair Loss is a Prize of a Lottery
When we talk about genes, we're talking about specific physical and chemical predispositions in a person's biology that would manifest themselves after being encoded in a person's genes. It's a lottery because often, the chances of getting a particular genetic trait are something like one in a thousand cases.
Conditions like hair loss, while they are very ordinary are still the produce of genetic luck. If you have an ancestor that had been bald, there's a chance that a few generations into the future, some great, great grand child of yours would be bald as well.
It's impossible to tell who will be bald by just looking at people. A person's head shape doesn't tell you anything, except of course whether the person had been born naturally or through C-section.
2. Male Pattern Baldness
In medical parlance, male pattern baldness is called 'androgenic alopecia'. This condition is often the result of a genetic switch being activated at a particular moment in a person's life. Again, medical science cannot tell us yet how to turn off this genetic switch. Such is the progress of medical science in the field of hair studies.
If you're planning to blame your mother for such a seemingly regressive trait, then don't. Medical science states that the predisposition to accelerated hair loss or balding is actually autosomal in nature.
This means that the offending genetic trait could have come from your mother as well as your father. There's no scientific proof that mothers are culprits in spreading the curse of baldness among their children.
3. Expressivity
If you want a term to describe what's happening to your scalp right now, you can use the term expressivity. Expressivity is an overarching term in genetics that pertains to the capacity of a particular genetic trait to manifest itself.
If genes are codes, then a trait's expressivity is the strength of a particular set of genetic codes to be felt or seen by the person himself. Some genetic traits have poor expressivity, so that's why you may also have a bald gene in you but you just don't know it.
4. Time to Splice and Re-Attach
One of the long-term aims of studies in baldness is the possibility of identifying the offending part of a person's DNA that contains the code for baldness and somehow de-activate it.
The human DNA is now undergoing a continuous mapping process, and it's only a matter of time before we have an accurate roadmap as to where the baldness traits are hiding. When this is achieved, it's very possible that baldness will be eliminated, whether through specific drugs or through genetic alteration.
1. Hair Loss is a Prize of a Lottery
When we talk about genes, we're talking about specific physical and chemical predispositions in a person's biology that would manifest themselves after being encoded in a person's genes. It's a lottery because often, the chances of getting a particular genetic trait are something like one in a thousand cases.
Conditions like hair loss, while they are very ordinary are still the produce of genetic luck. If you have an ancestor that had been bald, there's a chance that a few generations into the future, some great, great grand child of yours would be bald as well.
It's impossible to tell who will be bald by just looking at people. A person's head shape doesn't tell you anything, except of course whether the person had been born naturally or through C-section.
2. Male Pattern Baldness
In medical parlance, male pattern baldness is called 'androgenic alopecia'. This condition is often the result of a genetic switch being activated at a particular moment in a person's life. Again, medical science cannot tell us yet how to turn off this genetic switch. Such is the progress of medical science in the field of hair studies.
If you're planning to blame your mother for such a seemingly regressive trait, then don't. Medical science states that the predisposition to accelerated hair loss or balding is actually autosomal in nature.
This means that the offending genetic trait could have come from your mother as well as your father. There's no scientific proof that mothers are culprits in spreading the curse of baldness among their children.
3. Expressivity
If you want a term to describe what's happening to your scalp right now, you can use the term expressivity. Expressivity is an overarching term in genetics that pertains to the capacity of a particular genetic trait to manifest itself.
If genes are codes, then a trait's expressivity is the strength of a particular set of genetic codes to be felt or seen by the person himself. Some genetic traits have poor expressivity, so that's why you may also have a bald gene in you but you just don't know it.
4. Time to Splice and Re-Attach
One of the long-term aims of studies in baldness is the possibility of identifying the offending part of a person's DNA that contains the code for baldness and somehow de-activate it.
The human DNA is now undergoing a continuous mapping process, and it's only a matter of time before we have an accurate roadmap as to where the baldness traits are hiding. When this is achieved, it's very possible that baldness will be eliminated, whether through specific drugs or through genetic alteration.
