Why do we go Bald?
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Have you ever looked at the shiny dome of your grandfather and wondered, “Should I start stocking up on head wax soon?” Statistically at age 30 you will have a 30% chance of going bald. This increases by 10% every 10 years. So someone 50 years old will have a 50% chance of being bald. Due to the genetic factors involved with baldness, it stands to reason, if your grandfather is bald, you too will have to face that demon. Fortunately, scientists have pinpointed the genes responsible and just might have a cure for baldness in the next few years.
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I love the logic of "I shave my head bald to hide my baldness"... what? Isn't that like 'I dye my hair black to hide the black color of my hair'... what?
"Just might have a cure for baldness in the next few years" I heard that same quote 20 years ago.
Lol, I used to poke fun at my friends and family members for going bald when I was a kid. Karma can indeed be a cruel mistress!
They will be a cure for baldness by 1953.
Holy shit!
It's me!
There will never be a cure.
Its our genes, if our dna wants us to go bald it will happen and we can't just take a pill and stop it.
from an 18 year old that is already going bald may I say "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SCIENTISTS HURRY THE FUCK UP!!"
Don't even trip, man. Look at Patrick Stewart and Vin Diesel, two completely different types of personalities who went bald young.
Even before they were famous, they still had no problem with the ladies. (they've both talked about this in interviews about before they were actors) Know why? Because if you're confident and polite and treat people well, the last thing they'll care about is how much hair you have.
In fact, and I find this to be true of everyone, no one else really cares if you're going bald. It's only a big issue to the person losing it who thinks everyone else cares. They don't.
If you've got wildly scattered hair loss, just shave it. If it just recedes, you could be bold like Jack Nicholson. In the end, you'll be fine.
And you'll save a fortune in haircuts!
Most guys arn't Patrick Stewart or Vin Diesel.
gio :v i feel your pain :"(
gio :v I started loosing hair at age 22...one thing I noticed is to not use mousse, or texture cream or gel or any of that crap in your hair... it'll make your hair fall out faster.
gio :v there's already a cure, dude. Collect some chicken dung and massage it into your scalp. It usually grows hair after just a few months of regular applications.
I just wish my going bald, wasnt similar to my hair migrating from head down my back to my ass.
Presenter actually looks pretty cool with no hair.
Agreed. I always admire the guys who own their baldness and just shave it clean
Simon Whistler?
Almost any man looks better bald than balding.
Just own it and shave that shit off if it starts to fall out.
Dont try to fight it or feel bad for something thats out of your control
Dammit I've wanted to say this for ages now but held off; now I can't. So at the risk of sounding a bit gay, you have one sexy chrome dome bro! When my hair goes the way of the dodo, I hope I can pull off the look even half as good as you do so keep rocking on man!
Kamron Grant He looks like an Alien. Not the Mexican type either.
@@Horus-Lupercal To be fair it was 2016 when he wrote that. But still, "at the risk of sounding gay", was anachronistic even then.
@@charliericker274 2016 was only three years ago, maybe if the comment was written 1976, but past the 90s it's been widely considered unacceptable.
You know some people never seem to go bald, I have never seen foe example Native Americans being bald no matter the age. Just something I have noticed thinking of the topic of baldness.
King Kull Pure Native Americans also have almost no facial hair.
Before I went bald, my showers would take four minutes. Now that I'm without hair, I'm down to three minutes. It's my part to help save the environment.
How the hell does anyone have a 3 min shower?
By not masturbating like a teenager... shaved minutes off my shower time as well...
Fuck the planet I wanna keep my hair :)
Mark Vantilburg You mean seconds :D
Okay so with out wacking it I've got it down to 14 minutes. I think without hair and beard I could do 10 or so but I really can't see 3minutes.
Simon - I got a bit lost in all the acronyms, but got through this rather hairy subject with ease. It's official - I am a big fanboy for both this and the Top Tenz channel. I always find the topics informative, imaginative and just a whole lotta fun to watch. Please accept a hearty "well done" from a former music teacher in the USA, and please keep doing what you do. In your own way, you are helping to banish ignorance. Bravo to you and your team, sir!
+Corky Schillinger Thanks!
Don't worry, grass doesn't grow on a busy street.
at least you're honest about your hair instead of being like nah it's completely by choice lol mad respect for that. Great video! :D
Hello! I love your videos, got a lots of catch up to do, so i watch 2-3 videos per day. Now concerning the hairs, how about the history centuries ago (old painting or pictures) and today's hair lost. People are used to wear hats, giving a message to the body that no longer hairs is needed after several generations wearing hats. Note that i am not a scientist, just observing and curious on everything. I have a personal experience regarding hairs on the chest, before it was well garnish, i use to be a messenger in Montreal and my body do a lots of heat even in winter, so i used to wear a coat without zipping it (up to minus 20C) and always wearing a shirt v-neck style in the 1970's (never buttoned), i later saw my chest with plenty of hair in "v" shape where it was exposed to very cold temperature (but now expanded, so average)
I was born into a family line to where the men don't lose hair until normally around 50, so I have a couple of decades to start worrying about it.
Simon, your oratory presentation skills have gotten better over the years.
Hey George! Good looking rug! Good for you, Jack!
Lovely Intro, very relatable!
are u saying that when u r 100 years old u will have 100% chance of going bald
According to what he said, yes.
laser325 a colostomy bag & A COMB
110 years means 110% chance of getting bald haha 🍄
the best part is the ad was for a natural hair restoration product/company
Awesome opening!
Still waiting for that cure to hit the shelves. I know it'll get here eventually (whichever company brings that to market is going to make Trillions of dollars), but in the meantime I've resigned myself to wearing bandannas to protect innocent bystanders from the glare off my balding dome.
Side note: Once that treatment arrives, it's going to be WEIRD, seeing all the old geezers and grandmas in their 70's-90's tossing around their shiny and luxuriant manes of hair.
Old people will be the new hippies, with every one of them growing hair to their backsides.
(I know I will too :-)
lmao!!
I got a hair growing commercial for this video
That was NOT a coincidence! 🍄
I feel you, I started male pattern balding in highschool & just keep it shaved now
LOL I had a BALD commerical when I clicked on this video. Man, isn't TH-cam ad popper is SMART!!!!
I got a blading ad before this
Lol, I feel your pain, Simon. I'm holding onto my long hair, but I'm on the path to having a Devin Townsend "skullet". To be honest, though, I can't picture you with long hair.
Two things: 1) when I was a child my hair was much thinner, when I went through puberty it thickened. 2) Follow up idea, why do we go gray or white
Thing 1: If this is a typical hair-phenomenon among people during puberty, then it's either a natural side-effect of the puberty-process - OR it's one of biology's ways of intentionally signalizing to potential mates that we have reached sexual maturity (that we're ready to sexually reproduce).
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Thing 2: Graying/whitening hair is a part of the aging-process that occurs when a person is approaching old-age. Graying/whitening hair is therefore either just a natural side-effect of a slowly dying body - OR it's biology's way of intentionally signalizing to potential mates that a person is decaying (just like a decaying flower), and is therefore not the best mating-partner.
The exception to both of these explanations, however, is for men, as graying/whitening hair usually happens way, way earlier for men than it does for women - and it happens long before men are approaching old-age.
(If you want to understand why graying/whitening hair happens so early for men, then read Apolloggm's entire comment-thread, located right below your comment. Just make sure the comments-section is sorted by "newest first", in order to find his comment-thread.)
Why does hair change color? I had thin light hair that's been darkening, and now I've been finding some strands of scalp hair that are growing thicker, wiry, and black, nothing like the hair I've had. No greys yet, but quite curious all the same.
I too know the curse of male pattern baldness. I floated the idea of just getting it over with it and shave it... but keeping the beard to my barber and she seemed rather interested in the thought. The only downfall to this is that I can no longer frequent the shop for a trim/hot towel/shampoo and scalp massage (it is really relaxing after a long day at work).
I don't understand why balding people have an issue with it. If I was balding I would embrace it and style my remaining hair into a wicked sorcerer do and really play up with it. Balding is a mainly masculine thing and accentuating it would result in an amazingly masculine look. I have only ever seen one man do this, he was employed in the media industry and really looked and behaved like a powerful evil mastermind.
splendid idea. every balding man should just act like an evil mastermind. what a world it will be
anabolicmind one example fuckwit.
Nathanael Cupitt Some people have really great hair and love to style it, like myself. I'd hate to lose it.
I don't act like an evil mastermind. I AM an evil mastermind. So nature made my outside look like what I am inside.
harooni22 He said mastermind, not loud mouthed idiot.
6:12 aw, I want to molt
my dad bald as a monk, grand dad, head full of hair. I used to have hair the barber used to charge me double for. not joking about that. now? fairly fine and somewhere between the two I dont know if I'll be bald or thinned hair.
any bets?
Men in my paternal line (dad to dad to dad) tend to keep pretty full heads of hair into their 90s,
although it all turns white by one's mid-70s.
It seems that the price we pay for keeping our hair is light-sounding voices.
There's always a tradeoff...
i have large vampire v's but i was told ill keep most of my hair for years to come.
Well it stems from old movie vampire cliches, the hairdo dracula has. Hard to describe in words, just google it youll see. Its a pattern of balding that some get and sometimes it just stays like that for the rest of your life-
What I find odd is why did we evolve to have so much hair grow on top of our heads that it can grow so long? (before some become bald of course)
It's a strange thing, because I don't see that in other primates.
wasn't sure what they were talking about until like a minute in... lol
Great video but here we are a year later and still no new treatment
i soooooo want a cure for baldness i have long hair and love it but its getting thin :(
You still have it?
I read the thumbnail like “why we bald?”
My dad and I both started going bald at 19. I don't mind though, I shave it now and it looks better. Plus, being bald is so much easier to maintain: no need for haircuts, combs, or even shampoo.
Can you talk about hair restoration and the various ways to restore that shaggy, hirsute look on your top dome. The late Wayne Dyer made jokes about head balding.
I was going noticeably bald at about 19. You are not alone! Also, Patrick Stewart started around 18.
Talking about young? I started going bald when I was 18.
But I'm rocking that clean shaven look like a rock star.
I wondered if Saw Palmetto is safe to take, considering that it is supposed to work by inhibiting the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT? Would it be safe to make Saw Palmetto into some sort of topical preparation, or even add it to shampoo or conditioner, and would such a topical herbal remedy be effective in inhibiting that enzyme, as well as safe in not affecting the rest of the body?
Bald can be very sexy. It's all about a person's confidence. If you're trying to pull off a comb over, it comes across as unattractive. Leave it be, or just shave it off. No one will notice because you'll be too busy chatting them up. :D
What if your dad is going bald but your grandpa is 73 and not missing a single hair?
Joseph Best same here haha
there was an irish dating show, that i was watching a while ago and it mentioned that there roughly a 1/4 chance of you inhereting you baldness from your dad's side
I was always told it generally followed the maternal grandfather.
You might need to have a talk with your grandmother. Without your grandfather being in the room.
Bruce Dunn My grandpa isn't the kind of guy to use a wig or hair piece, if that is what you are inferring.
Holy f**k, Simon's face is also bald... I am coming from the future and let me tell you, he looks much better with a beard!
the PGD2 amount in this vid is rediculously high XD
2 years passed, are we there yet?
Damn you Google Analytics! Now I've got hair re-growth ads everywhere just because I watched this video.
Be sure to keep us up to date with the new medications.
The hair on my head has decided to relocate to my ears and nose :-)
My one uncle started to lose his hair in high school
So, this potential "cure" for baldness they are working on, is it supposed to cause hair to regrow once baldness has happened?
Hey thanks.... i'm 27 and very likely in the beginning phases of alopecia. I learnt concise facts in this video. I'll probably shave my head bald too :P .......
0:53 what's going on here? lol
You could have it worse Simon. All the men in my family start going bald at 17 and are completely bald by 22.
25, been losing hair since 21 :/
I always thought that loosing hair on the head was a continuation of loosing hair on the whole body; an evolution thing to no hair anywhere.
Great video, as always - big fan, love your work!
I had an advert for an Indian hair replacement clinic to start the video, made me laugh. 25 years ago I met a man who had had hair-plugs about ten years previously. His bald head looked liked a moonscape, with rows of craters evenly spaced across most of it. He wore a lot of hats.
That's bald with an a, not bulled. Hahaha
December 22- 2020 and im still f%*kin bald.........
my grandfather was n8v and died with braids so yeah
I wish my baldness was high enough on the list of my physical problems to register. 😣
my coworker is 17 and severely balding. he said he started balding at 12
my grandfather died at 90 and had nice thick hair
Happened when I was 19!
I don't seem to be going bald but my hair doesn't grow much either, I go 8-12 months between hair cuts & my hair is never more than shoulder length.
that doesnt seem odd?
Heart of Fire - Not at all, i got lots of curly thick hair, and it also takes a year or more for that length, i do cut it like every 8 months or so, my beard is also a slow grower, but thick n steady, im gonna keep my lovly hair forever,
i dont eat healthy, i smoke and i dont exercise, 27 years old.
I'm a fledhead. My hair fled my head.
at 0:53 I think his problem is not so much that he's bald but he's married
The question is...
Is hair loss random background noise (no effect on reproduction)
Or does hair loss have a genetic basis?
This must be a very emotional subject for him
haha
*looks at picture of granddad, sees full head of snow white hair* Phew...
I still wonder what the reason is that this only happens to people. You won't see a cat or a rat go bald like this, I wonder what makes this adaptive enough to become a thing in human beings.
On humans, hair gets finer and shorter as we age. On men, the exact opposite occurs on the ears and eyebrows. Has anyone figured out yet why that happens?
So seeing as the hormone that leads to hair loss also leads to male secondary sex characteristics, does that mean that those treatments for baldness messes with any of that stuff?
That's why he said "Sorry, ladies." when he was talking about one of em.
junoguten in rare cases finasteride can decrease your sex drive for example. Ive been on it for years and havent noticed any side effects.
Dude there is no u in follicle.
Walkertongdee I think it's just part of his accent, there's plenty of words that different accents change letters in (I mean, look at how Colonel evolved)
It's not his accent.
it came out of his mouth...
Walkertongdee Other people with that accent don't say it that way, ergo, it's not his accent.
TheJamesRedwood its like dayta and dahta people say data different like that and they can have the same accent
Dude, really young to go bald is like 20... I already know two men to have experienced it. You're older than me.
3.5 oz for a strand of hair? I am gonna test that.
Give me a drug so I don't have to shave my damn head every couple days -_-
Jack Phoenix why take half the hair on our head?
take it all!
Jack Phoenix Laser surgery?
Fire, my friend, fire ;)
Looking at genetics, I'm going to have a thick luxurious head of hair my entire life... until I die from heart attack or stroke in my 50s
how many times can you say pgd2 in a video
more than pgd1.
its been 4 years since this was published and we still have no cure.
There will never be a cure.
The only way to may cure baldness is to alter ones genes in a way where you remove the gene responsible for baldness.
my dad is losing his hair but my grandpa had a full head of hair
Don"t feel bad Simon, my dad was bald by 30
Really young? How old are you? ;-)
Some have postulated that BALDNESS in a man is a "marker" for females.
So this goes back to beginning of human evolution.
Some believe that baldness shows a female the male has survived long enough to go bald , which means there are powerful genes there. It would also mean WISDOM - hence monk use that pecyuliar shaved circle on their heads
On the other hand a head full of hair denotes a young man with very little life experience and a tendency to "run about". NOT a good choice as a husband. In those times a young female may rump around but most likely would marry a wealthy bald gentleman. Yet ANOTHER possible marker in hair loss is a propensity to certain illnesses which increase the hair falling as the possible illness (most likely inherited) worsens.
We do know so little about our bodies . For example now we know the "appendix" that maligned good for nothing appendage, INDEED serves a very important purpose.
The appendix helps in the production of probiotics which help digest food, bloating and overall digestive illnesses,by providing the "good bacteria" necessary for digestion.
Ever wondered how people were able to cope with digestive prablems before TUMS and Alka-Seltzer ?
Well they HAD their appendix.
Years ago I discovered the cure for a bald head. I had gone bald on the top of my head, including the crown. The sides by the ears still retained hair, but the baldness was spreading. I just resigned myself to becoming one of those "bald guys" and didn't sweat over it. Then, I began eating 3 servings of red cabbage a day as part of an overall healthy diet after I had looked up and found out that it is very good for you. After 18 months of that while looking in the mirror I noticed something strange on my head. Hair. It was growing back. At first I didn't know why. But hey, I wasn't going to argue. The hair kept growing and now I can actually comb it and it needs to be cut as well. I showed this to my primary doctor and he was just amazed. He wanted to know how this happened. The only thing that I did different was eat the red cabbage, which I still do to this day. I'm not saying that red cabbage will cure all forms of male baldness, but it cured mine.
+Sparky Summers From one who went as bald as one could possibly go before 30, thank you. People need to be informed about the bleach and cyanide remedies they don't want you to know about.
nodriveknowitall I'm here to help. As a full-haired 22 year old, I've watched friends and family worry around me and strived to help them. Now they can look forward to a life like mine - free of the worry of a cold dome in the winter months.
Bullshit. Scientific studies please or Its fake. Sorry.
BritishHistoryChap I'm a random guy on the internet. Do you really think I'd lie to you?
Sparky Summers My apologies. I was replying to OP not you. Your comment was wonderful.
My grandfather is 78 and has still got as much hair as me yaya
Don't feel bad...my brother started balding when he was in his mid 20s.
with all the statistics in the beginning... was that for males only or both?
Same, dude. I'm only 25 and my hairline is pretty weak.
I don't mind being bald. I've grown to like my look. but what I hate. is the hair that is having a rave in and around my ears not only that. is I used to have nice hairy legs. not so much now. Al THAT hair has seemed to have migrated northward to my ears and eyebrows. I can only see it getting worse in the future if my father's ears are any indication. LOTS of grooming as you grow older. if you care about your appearance at least
I'm so sick of these dang bug bites
I personally go bald because I don't want to pay a barber to cut my hair, and shaving off all my hair is the only way I can get a truly even cut. So I just deliberately go bald every few months.
Whoa this is an old video... no beard
uh both my grandparents have hair
Mine did too, I'm 36 and my hair is down to my mid back. Its also quite thick, it has thinned a very little with age, but I have noticed far more grey.
constant vigorous exercise and healthy living is the way to go. so simple and obvious but people still don't get it. they live unhealthy lives with hormones all out of wack, take a ton of unnatural pills to counteract it and then they wonder why their hairs falling out and their body is shutting down. testosterone isn't bad, it is a natural masculine hormone. extreme hormonal changes and unhealthy living are the culprits. when a man ages his testosterone levels plummet, his hormone levels thus change and he starts going bald. if he exercised and led a healthy live his testosterone would stay normal and therefore, his hair would not fall out.
Heart Fire that's not true. studies have shown men with high testosterone still balding. many athletes are bald as well
well, you have a lot of active, health buff bald men to disagree with that.
I don't recall anywhere in this video him saying that lack of "constant vigorous exercise and healthy living" as the cause of balding. I eat better and exercise more than most people I know my age who still have full heads of hair, yet I lost my hair anyway. Just keep your moronic assertions to yourself.
Heart Fire wrong.
This video mentions that you're more likely to go bald if your grandpa is bald, this video forgets to mention which grandpa. What if you have one bald and one with a full head if hair?
4:20 so there is a chemical that affects biological phenomena as broad as asthma, allergic rhinitis, baldness... yeah I'm sure taking that for baldness will have no side effects.