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Thyroid Condition & Male Pattern Baldness: A Patient's Perspective

 The following is from one of HairSite's readers 


Male thyroid problems are more common than first thought to be. I suffered for many year with hairloss among other symptoms. It's a lot harder to tell if a man has male pattern baldness or a thyroid condition, because in a lot of ways they are the same. A tsh test may or may not tell if you have a thyroid problem, luckily mine did. 

The blood running through our veins changes every so often, you could get a blood test on certain things and it could be totally different in minutes or hours. Some may need a hair test which is better than blood test because it gives you an accurate description from the day you take it to about 3 months back. There are so many things people or many doctors don't even know about the thyroid. For example if their was a biological attack, the media tells us things like run out and get some duct tape and plastic sheeting when they should really be telling us to run out and get some iodide or iodine tablets or liquid because that's the first thing it will effect and kill you!!! 

Our thyroid soaks things up like a sponge. It also controls every single cell in our bodies, every gland, metabilism, temperature, and so on. The guy pictured on the right of my screen in your ad looks like he might be a thyroid-hairloss sufferer, no total ressesion or widely seen baldness just straw-like hair and diffuse all over, but more so in the middle top straight through his head. If so his hair is most likely still growing and if you put your hand in the top of his head you will feel that he has hairs from about 1/4 to 1 in. that will poke the tips of your fingers. 

When someone has a thyroid problem they will also most likely have hairloss and their bodies also create an abundance of DHT. You can see almost the same thing in a man with male pattern baldness except that those tiny hairs will shrivel up and diminish while someone with a thyroid condition's hair will take almost the same effect, it also re-grows or tries to regrow to an extent, Sort of hard to explain. Even men with male pattern baldness or excessive DHT, it is in my belief that DHT is not the root cause but a result of our body's mechanism to fix an under lying problem in our biological system. It's been said that even the most healthy and fit of men have hairloss or are bald but everyone is different and we can't tell what's going on in every cell or minute particle in our bodies ourselves. The human body is very complicated.

Best wishes to all!
Shawn


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Article #  264
Title Thyroid Condition and Male Pattern Baldness: A Patient's Story
Date 06/10/03
Source HairSite Editorials / Shawn
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