The Health of Your Hair & Scalp - No One Seems to Like Balding Men By Maggie Z. Mathews At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

No one seems to like balding men – or at the best they tend to make fun of bald and balding men. Take George Costanza of Seinfeld fame. If that is not bad enough not only that but women as well are often concerned about hair loss and what used to be only called or referred to as “male pattern baldness” as well.

It is a sad fact that most men will start getting bald at some point in their lives. Its not a case of if you will start losing your thick hair and go bald or have somewhat less thickness of hair on your head – it only at what point and time – when you will start to thin out your hair that is on the top of your head .

You can be assured that at some point in your life most men will begin to start going bald. The numbers are estimated that about 25 % of men will begin to lose their hair by the ripe age of 30 years of age and an estimate of a full 65 % by the age of 60. Think about as you age – hairlines that can be best described as progressing towards a “monk’s fringe”, are not totally uncommon if not common indeed in middle aged men currently.

It might all be natural, but does that make all that much difference when the shine of your scalp start showing through that thin wisp of hair that is currently lying across the scalp on the top of your head.

What causes most hair loss in men or what is termed medically as “male pattern baldness”. What causes this condition of “male pattern baldness”? Is it simply a matter of hair wearing out or reaching the end of its lifespan and not being replaced? No , current medical opinion is not that your hair and hair follicles are not “dying out” or simply withering away – reaching the end of their useful life. It appears that a protein , an enzyme of our bodies , called “5-alpha-reductase” “shrinks” and causes your hair follicles to shrink and wither away to the point where they are simply to small and puny to even support a single strand of hair. What is amazing though is that this damaging enzyme does it worst work at the top and front of the head – leaving the hair follicles at the back of the head reasonably ok.

Why is this important? A hair transplant surgeon can “transplant” those good and better hair follicles from the back of your head to the front of your hair restoring your head of hair cosmetically to some degree.

Does it hurt to have hair and hair follicles transplanted? Yes it does to some degree. However it is all done under local anesthetic. Most people who have the procedure done report that generally it’s similar in a way to a visit to the dentist and no more painful than “going to the dentist”.

It all depends on your point of view and concerns about your health and appearance. It now seems that not only are many men concerned about the expanding and continuing loss of the hair on the top of their head but also many women as well. So be it.

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