Smoking+Testosterone Rise = Male Baldness

According to the data provided by a Taiwan physician Yang Chao-Chun, smoking and testosterone rise may combine to case male baldness. This fact was presented during a seminar in Seoul where he quoted his own personal experience of treating a 13 year old male patient who suffered from male baldness due to the presence of excessive dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in his scalp.

Yang state that the boy had significant signs of male baldness with thinning hair and a receding hairline. On exploring further he found the boy was quite embarrassed by his baldness, but the family was quite supportive on the matter. Yang concluded with the statement, “An increase in DHT will shorten a person’s hair’s lifecycle…”

An average male loses around 100 hairs on a daily basis, while a DHT inflicted person may lose more than that. However, normal testosterone levels may not cause hair loss problem, instead a balanced level of hormone is responsible for strengthening hair and preventing them from being gray before time.

Another clinical data blames smoking habits to be one of the reasons causing male baldness. A research in Taiwan exposed that men who puffed 20 cigarette fags daily were 2.3 times more prone of becoming bald than the ones who didn’t.

A third report involving male baldness is concerned with treating hair loss issues through the use of medications. This report suggested that as many as 70% of men diagnosed with baldness showed improvement in 12 weeks of taking hair-fall preventive medicine. However, only a small amount of Taiwan men have tried using medication for hair fall control, the report concluded.

This seminar was attended by several medical experts from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea who seemed united on the fact that male baldness among Asian men is less than European and American ones.