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Newsflash: Hair Loss Comes From "Father Genes"

Alopecia is the medical term for hair loss. The most common form of alopecia is male pattern baldness. It also usually occurs around middle age. But while people know that hair loss is common among men, they probably don't know that hair loss comes from "father genes," or the male-dominant genes passed on from generation to generation.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that hair loss comes from father, not the mother. Just look at the hair loss pattern in your family, and you'll find out if you're in danger of losing hair when you reach middle age. You won't usually find your mother losing hair, although it does happen.

Only a very small percentage of women suffer from alopecia. But though there is a small percentage of women losing hair naturally, there are indeed women who suffer from alopecia the way men do. This is because women also have androgens, which are male hormones that are located in every normal human body. Alopecia in general is caused by the overactivity of male hormones in the body, which is the reason why there are vastly more men than women who suffer from it. And this hormonal activity is often triggered when a person reaches middle age.

But if you are male and you have the alopecia gene, there is also a chance that you will start experiencing hair loss at an early age. In some very rare cases, a man in a family of males who have a trend of experiencing severe alopecia will not suffer hair loss even unto old age. This does not mean, however, that he is not a carrier; his son may suffer hair loss as well. A woman may also be a carrier of the alopecia gene, even if she does not suffer hair loss herself.

In short: natural alopecia is not abnormal, and it's not unhealthy. Hair loss comes from "father genes," which means you only inherited this predominantly male trait from your forebears. Thanks to modern medical technology, there is now a wide variety of methods of treating or slowing hair loss... but still, not a lot of ways to eliminate the alopecia gene.