Body Hair and MPB Link?
Hello, thanks for being a boat of sanity on a sea of panic driven nonsense. I have a question about risk of balding. I remember before that you said body hair and MPB were genetically distinct processes. Now I have found a new entry on Wikipedia (not always accurate I know) saying there is a correlation between body hair and head hair thinning.
Given I am quite hairy myself (but have made it to 35 with a full head of thick hair) this is a bit of a worry. Do you have any thoughts on the matter.
(I couldn’t find the source for this – on the androgenic hair page there is a reference to a 1947 article but no link)
As you said, Wikipedia is not always accurate. Anyone can post information there. For that matter, I just noticed that the post of follicular unit extraction (FUE) on Wikipedia is not completely accurate either.
Body hair is not necessarily linked with MPB, but even if it is, what would you do and how would that information help us/you? I wish I could give you answers on the presence of a link between head and body hair loss, but I haven’t seen anything reliable that ties the two together.
Good answer – any link may only be correlated rather than causative anyway and even if the study is correct it is only an increased risk of balding. If you scroll down on the page you can see a study that shows that balding is correlated to:
“…genetics, age, smoking, sun exposure, dandruff, a history of cancer, hypertension, sedentariness, and paradoxically, low testosterone.”
Presumably in the majority of these cases there would be no balding if there was no genetic predisposition to it.