Men who have been castrated do not suffer from male pattern baldness...

What most men and women are not aware of is that the reason why a man goes bald is not because he is getting old and his body cannot hold onto the hair on his head but because of a complicated chemical hormonal process which has no relation to the age or the health of a man. Male pattern baldness is created by the build up of Dihydrotestosterone in the scalp and this is something which can’t be controlled by diet or by healthy living but is just in your genes.

Dihydrotestosterone is a result of the five alpha reductase enzyme reacting with the male hormone testosterone. The Dihydrotestosterone is a completely natural compound that forms in the scalp and unfortunately for some man reacts badly with hair follicles. The hair follicle is destroyed by the build up of Dihydrotestosterone in the scalp and thus male pattern baldness occurs.

What you must be aware of is that there is nothing negative about your health or with what you are eating or whether you have been doing exercise or not, if you start to experience male pattern baldness. In fact because the male hormone testosterone is needed in order to produce the hair follicle destroying Dihydrotestosterone those men who have a very low testosterone count are less likely to have experience of male pattern baldness.

You can take heart from the information that if you are suffering from baldness on the top of your scalp it means that you have your fair quota of the male hormone testosterone making you more of a man then your full-haired buddies!  Did you know for example that men who have been castrated do not suffer from male pattern baldness as they have little or no testosterone in their blood? This phenomenon is observed in eunuchs.

The way that the best selling hair loss medication Propecia works is by blocking the build up of the Dihydrotestosterone in the scalp.