Does heat escaping from your head have any relationship to male pattern baldness?

Written by reader on November 22nd, 2008

About 70% of your body heat escapes through a human being’s head. Does this have anything to do with male pattern baldness?

3 Responses to “Does heat escaping from your head have any relationship to male pattern baldness?”

  1. Danny Says:

    no if that was the case our women would be bald also. heat also escapes through your hands and feet also

  2. Tom V Says:

    Yes, the heat loss thing is true (even if some might dispute the percentage loss), but has no effect on hair.

    No, it’s not about baldness. Male pattern baldness often goes with high testosterone levels, which (ironically) go with bigfoot body hair, never sure where to stop shaving, and all that other furry stuff below the scalp. Testosterone also goes with intense *** drive, so stop bragging.
    :)

    PS: Look at all the hot-headed guys with hair. No, it’s really just about male hormones.

  3. Rodney Says:

    Actually, when you look at the physical pattern of baldness, you figure it has to be heat related. Yes, it may have to do with testosterone or another protein, but it is because the heat is effecting the protein folding in the area.

    I mean, really, how can you possibly conclude it doesn’t have anything to do with heat when in many men with pattern baldness (most actually), the area is so well defined as to be specific. There is the large bald circle at the very crown of the head, and it is extremely well defined as to where the baldness stops. So, in your theory, what happens at the demarcation line – testosterone simply stops there? I doubt it. But heat does stop there. I would be willing to bet a $100.00 dollars that testing of the proteins found at that part of the scalp under the same temperature of heat as found in that area under controlled conditions would find that the higher temperature absolutely effects the protein folding occuring in that region.

    If you don’t think a degree or two can effect protein folding, and if you are a man, I would ask that you take a look down at your crotch – see those things hanging below your body – those hang down because they need to be a degree or two cooler than your body in order to manufacture semen. Above that degree or two you become infertile.

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