DHT and Transplanted Hair
I would like to know how a hair follicle falls off. I was told that as DHT accmulates at the bottom of hair follicles hair falls off. This DHT is produmed by male harmones. Is this true? If this is the case even after hair transplantation DHT will be accumulating and it will cause the transplanted follicle to fall off. Then how is hair transplantation a permanent solution?
DHT is created when your body metabolizes testosterone. It is mostly made by your liver. For people who have the gene for genetic balding, when the hair is at the point in time when it is susceptible to the effects of DHT, it usually starts to get thin (we call that miniaturized) and as it thins out more and more, eventually the hair will permanently fall out. Sometimes the hair just falls out rather than going the route of miniaturization.
Transplanted hair does not have the faulty genetic code, because hair from the sides and back of the head (for reasons not clearly understood) have normal genetic code. These hairs are not vulnerable to the effects of DHT. Look at the people who are genetically bald. They always have hair around the side and back of the head, always. I can not tell you why that is the case, but I know for certain that these hairs around the side and back of the head are programmed to grow for life, so when they are moved in a hair transplant (to a new home in the front), they keep growing as they did at their old ‘home’ in the side and back of the head.
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