Info about Hair Loss
The biggest "problem" surrounding male pattern baldness is probably the fact that people have such a hard time accepting it as part of the life process. Known scientifically as androgenetic alopecia, which has been affecting men (and women, though to a far lesser degree) since, well, the dawn of human kind. And so it remains that if you happen to have this age-old condition, especially at a relatively young age, you will have to decide how (and if) to adjust.
Male Pattern Baldness
Male pattern baldness, a common form of hair loss, is triggered by a chemical reaction between certain hormones. Specific inherited genetic information can cause hair follicles to weaken when exposed to the hormone DHT, or dihydro-testosterone, the latter being chemically altered when it reacts with the skin enzyme 5-alpha reductase.
Male pattern baldness is a genetic trait which men inherit from their maternal genetic pattern (so if your mother's father was bald, and you're a man you will inherit his hair pattern). If you're a woman baldness and hair loss can be caused by any number of reasons including genetics, menopause, and illness.
An important distinction to make is that male pattern baldness is not triggered by normal, everyday hair loss. On any given day, approximately 100 hairs fall from the scalp. A completely routine phenomenon. Similarly, dead skin cells simply fall away, to be replaced by newer layers that grow underneath. Hair follicles--tiny micro-organs that grow strands of hair--continually grow new hair to replace fallen hair. In the case of male pattern baldness, hair follicles are weakened by exposure to DHT, and no longer produce new hair.
As follicles stop growing new hair, the actual density or thickness of hair diminishes. Generally, this thinning of hair begins in the frontal area, above the forehead, and may simultaneously occur on the crown region, resulting in a familiar "bald spot." Given enough time, there is no new hair to replace the fallen hair, and baldness sets in.