MNK99
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@ Jamie
"I will not agree with you. That all does not mean that there is some kind of mysterious balding gene which no one have ever seen."
I never said it meant that. Firstly, there's more than one gene. Secondly, drug induced hair loss -- can affect people who have zero hair loss in their family history. Thirdly, I was agreeing that genes are involved for genetic hair loss. Does anyone really think that 0% of hair loss suffered is genetic?
It's an interplay between a multitude of genes most likely in addition to other factors. It's genetics and what we do, pollution, meds, and more. There's an infinite amount of things at play. As well as probably mutations as Gbolduev says. That's what I think. I didn't actually finish my thoughts on it before.
Most doctors will say its 99.9% genetics. I don't agree with that because I've seen hair loss from meds, as have so many others. I never said it's one "weird" gene. Maybe raised norepinephrine and cortisol caused hair loss for me from Adderall as well as vasoconstriction, but it was clearly not just genetic loss (at least not at the normal rate). I doubt medicine is close to solving drug-induced hair loss, let alone M.P.B., hence why finasteride and minoxidil are the only things out for 30 years.
Alopecia from drugs | DermNet New Zealand
"I will not agree with you. That all does not mean that there is some kind of mysterious balding gene which no one have ever seen."
I never said it meant that. Firstly, there's more than one gene. Secondly, drug induced hair loss -- can affect people who have zero hair loss in their family history. Thirdly, I was agreeing that genes are involved for genetic hair loss. Does anyone really think that 0% of hair loss suffered is genetic?
It's an interplay between a multitude of genes most likely in addition to other factors. It's genetics and what we do, pollution, meds, and more. There's an infinite amount of things at play. As well as probably mutations as Gbolduev says. That's what I think. I didn't actually finish my thoughts on it before.
Most doctors will say its 99.9% genetics. I don't agree with that because I've seen hair loss from meds, as have so many others. I never said it's one "weird" gene. Maybe raised norepinephrine and cortisol caused hair loss for me from Adderall as well as vasoconstriction, but it was clearly not just genetic loss (at least not at the normal rate). I doubt medicine is close to solving drug-induced hair loss, let alone M.P.B., hence why finasteride and minoxidil are the only things out for 30 years.
Alopecia from drugs | DermNet New Zealand
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