<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Hair loss is no longer an inevitable march to baldness. Medical advances in recent decades mean male hair loss can be treated, and it need not break the bank.
The cause of male pattern baldness is well established as an act of nature<wm>, a result of two male hormones, androgenes and dihydrotestosterone, produced in small amounts by an enzyme called 5-alpha-reducing in our bodies. These hormones control the size and distribution of the size and density of the hair follicle. Generally speaking, we have 100 million of them; as it falls below one-third, it results in loss. We lose most of them naturally in our 30s, while growing, and therefore, in our 50s,</wm> we have an additional 100,000 hair follicle to grow. Thus, in our 50