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Genetics

JamboMac · 2013-07-09 21:53:35

Ok I have more of a question and if has been asked before then point me in the right direction. I believe I'm losing my hair and if so probably won't go down the rogaine route and if I say that I think I'm losing my hair they just point to my mothers father who lived to 94 with a thick full head of hair. Now it's just…

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JamboMac

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Ok I have more of a question and if has been asked before then point me in the right direction.

I believe I'm losing my hair and if so probably won't go down the rogaine route and if I say that I think I'm losing my hair they just point to my mothers father who lived to 94 with a thick full head of hair. Now it's just either side of fringe that has gone.

My question is everybody here who has experienced receding or complete had a grandfather that was bald on the mothers side or is this just one of many myths we still believe.

Also my dad is bald but his father wasn't

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#2 10-07-2013 8:27am

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Apparently the grandfather stuff is nonsense.

I have 3 brothers, the eldest is going / gone bald. My grandfather on both sides had no such hair drama.

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#3 10-07-2013 1:17pm

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I suppose if your granny on your mothers side has the balding then your mother has a chance of getting it from her and then you have 50/50 chance of getting it.

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