March 2021
The most common cause of balding in men is androgenetic alopecia, also known as male pattern hair loss. It is essentially a genetic condition although there are many myths about its cause. This video is a deep dive into what causes men to go bald.
0:00 Intro
0:35 Male hair loss pattern
1:12 Getting the diagnosis right
1:46 What causes male balding?
3:16 Hair loss myths
3:56 How common is male pattern balding?
4:30 Psychological effects of hair loss
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Full transcript and references: https://www.docunlock.org/youtube/mal...
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Further reading
https://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2016/apr...
https://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/male...
References:
[1] https://www.jidonline.org/article/S00...
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomm...
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1832108/
[4] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...
[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11739...
[6] https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/steroids/
[7] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9865198/
[8] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25128...
