Female Pattern Baldness Genetics

What Causes Female Pattern Baldness?

Men's hair loss is very obviously tied directly into DNA. When a boy is born, he gets a rush of a powerful androgen (male hormone) that is 3 times as powerful as testosterone, known as Dihydrotestosterone. As he gets older, most of that hormone is supposed to go away, but when high levels of it are produced (which is based on your natural body chemistry) your body does not know what to do with it, and it ends up attaching itself to the follicles of your hair and sucks away their nutrients. Eventually, hair loss ensues.

Female pattern baldness genetics are not so cut and dry. While the mechanism that causes hair loss is well known, what puts the mechanism into action is less clear.

Causes of Women's Hair Loss

Women's hair loss is caused by something quite different than male hair loss. Hormone changes result in the body not producing the nutrients that your hair needs. Without these nutrients (or with a small amount of them), the hairs start to weaken significantly until ultimately the hair is so thin and so tiny (from malnutrition) that it is barely visible. The result is small bald patches on the scalp.

But what causes these hormone changes is far less well known. While it likely relates to female pattern baldness genetics, there is some confusion in the field for a few reasons:

• First, most women's hair loss occurs due to menopause, where a vast amount of hormone changes occur. Menopause itself is not at all tied into female pattern baldness genetics, though of course there is a hereditary aspect.
• Second, it can occur for women at any point in their life, even with a less vast hormone change. Is it a result of female pattern baldness genetics? That is a little less clear. While female pattern baldness genetics likely play a role, the genetics may simply have to do with the way the body processes nutrients, which would make women's hair loss a side effect - rather than something caused specifically by a gene.

But regardless of female pattern baldness genetics, it is well known how to treat it. As long as any woman suffering from hair loss is able to get hold of a supplement like Sephren that can provide them with the nutrients that their body is not producing, hair loss should be quickly stopped and very likely reversed.