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Thinning Hair Men – onset of male pattern baldness?
It begins with a retreating hairline during pubescence accompanied by a hairless patch on the back of the head. Before long, only a periphery of hair stays on where there had at one time been a good and majestic head of hair.
A lot of men endure male pattern baldness. Some will purchase toupees or hairpieces will may be uncomfortable, but then the alternative of maneouvering the continuing hair into a comb-over is rarely an attractive option either. The best look seems to be cutting it short to downplay the loss of the hair.
‘Generally half of men have some hair loss by the age of 50, but in many different ways,’ said Professor Ulrike Blume-Peytavi, head of the Clinical Research Centre for Hair and Skin Physiology at Berlin’s Charite Hospital.
Naturally, everyone has some normal hair loss – out of an available 100,000 hair follicles we lose about 60 to 70 a day. ‘But if it turns into 60 to 100 strands a day, you should get it looked at,’ says dermatologist Rolf Hoffmann.
Those levels of hair loss do not necessarily mean baldness is imminent. If it only lasts for two or three days, Blume-Peytavi says not to worry. ‘If the hair loss continues for more than eight weeks, you should go to the doctor,­ not wait until the hair has grown noticeably thinner.’
If the problem is spot baldness it is rare and generally caused by illness. Unfortunately, in [...]

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