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Post by willywonka666 on Feb 24, 2009 13:10:18 GMT -5
..yet his brother Malcolm has a full head of hair?
Baldness comes from the mother's side of the family, and they are brothers, so shouldn't they both either have a full head of hair, or both be going bald?
I've heard conflicting stories on people who wear caps will go bald, some say it's true, others say it's B.S.
So what gives?
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Post by jamofpearls on Feb 24, 2009 13:11:21 GMT -5
Constant head banging while playing guitar on stage has thrown his hair out little by little over the years.
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 24, 2009 13:31:52 GMT -5
One abused his body more heavily than the other did?
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Post by willywonka666 on Feb 24, 2009 13:42:41 GMT -5
One abused his body more heavily than the other did? As far as I know the band never got into much more than drinking, which Malcolm wound up going to rehab for in 87-otherwise they're all pretty clean by all accounts. |
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 24, 2009 13:45:38 GMT -5
One abused his body more heavily than the other did? As far as I know the band never got into much more than drinking, which Malcolm wound up going to rehab for in 87-otherwise they're all pretty clean by all accounts. Huh. I thought they were one of the wilder bands around, back in the day. You know, strippers, coke and booze until dawn, then sleep an hour, get up and do it again. Still though, alcohol, when abused heavily enough, can cause your body to deteriorate more rapidly than it would otherwise. And maybe Angus' use of it had a worse effect on his overall health than his brother's? |
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Post by The Genesis of KoOS on Feb 24, 2009 14:18:12 GMT -5
Just because they are brothers, doesn't mean both will go bald.
One may just be luckier than the other or maybe the hair burglar hasn't visited the other brother yet.
And no, wearing hats don't make you go bald. The only outside factors that can cause baldness are poor dieting, stress, or constantly pulling your hair in a ponytail.
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Post by The Booty Disciple on Feb 24, 2009 15:05:16 GMT -5
At least it's not Angus MacGyver. The loss of the patented MacGyver Power Mullettm would be horrible for his powers of making something out of crap laying around.  |
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Post by ani on Feb 24, 2009 15:20:34 GMT -5
Maybe he's regressing ala Benjamin Button. He started out as a schoolboy and know he's turning into a baby.
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Post by amsiraK on Feb 24, 2009 15:21:39 GMT -5
Just because they are brothers, doesn't mean both will go bald. One may just be luckier than the other or maybe the hair burglar hasn't visited the other brother yet. And no, wearing hats don't make you go bald. The only outside factors that can cause baldness are poor dieting, stress, or constantly pulling your hair in a ponytail. It's also a myth that it comes from the mother's side of the family. |
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Feb 24, 2009 15:26:09 GMT -5
Just because they are brothers, doesn't mean both will go bald. One may just be luckier than the other or maybe the hair burglar hasn't visited the other brother yet. And no, wearing hats don't make you go bald. The only outside factors that can cause baldness are poor dieting, stress, or constantly pulling your hair in a ponytail. It's also a myth that it comes from the mother's side of the family. Wait, really? If so, that's one hell of a myth-it's all over a bunch of the biology textbooks I read in school! I ask because I'm worried about whether or not I'll be going bald in the future, and since my mom's dad was bald (but my dad's dad wasn't), I'm worried that I'm doomed. |
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Feb 24, 2009 15:33:40 GMT -5
At least it's not Angus MacGyver. The loss of the patented MacGyver Power Mullettm would be horrible for his powers of making something out of crap laying around. does anyone else think he looks like a skinny early 90s Lex Luger? lol |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Feb 24, 2009 16:48:24 GMT -5
I thought the wearing of hats helped you go bald in that your hair is cut off from sunlight, which actually helps your hair grow...?
I'm going to read up on this now.
See what you made me do?
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Feb 24, 2009 16:50:11 GMT -5
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Feb 24, 2009 17:05:59 GMT -5
Or advertisement for a hair regrowth product that would skew things... |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Feb 24, 2009 17:11:09 GMT -5
Or advertisement for a hair regrowth product that would skew things... You do have a point, but Snopes says the same things... I just can't link to it here. |
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Post by willywonka666 on Feb 24, 2009 17:19:04 GMT -5
Hmm well one grandfather on my Mom's side had a full head of hair when he died at 80, My father's father who I only saw in pictures still had all his hair when he died, however my father had thin hair and appeared to have a little bit of a bald spot in his final years, my mother and uncle had a thick head of hair as do I.
I think I should be ok.
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Post by Macho Dude Handy Damage on Feb 24, 2009 21:17:14 GMT -5
It's also a myth that it comes from the mother's side of the family. Wait, really? If so, that's one hell of a myth-it's all over a bunch of the biology textbooks I read in school! I ask because I'm worried about whether or not I'll be going bald in the future, and since my mom's dad was bald (but my dad's dad wasn't), I'm worried that I'm doomed. Schools will teach you a lot of lies. And not just in biology class, but in history class as well. |
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Post by thesam07 on Feb 24, 2009 21:25:52 GMT -5
www.wisegeek.com/is-hair-loss-inherited-from-the-mothers-family.htmIs Hair Loss Inherited from the Mother's Family? Hair loss is a condition where hair, usually on the top of the head, starts to fall out and ceases to grow back fully. The most common type of hair loss is referred to as male pattern baldness, or more technically as androgenic alopecia, where hair thins until it is eventually gone from the head. Hair grows on the head from a number of different hair follicles. The average person has about 100,000 follicles on their head, each of which can grow somewhere around 20 distinct hairs over the lifetime of the person. When these follicles stop producing hair, the most common types of hair loss occur. For years it has been thought that hair loss was inherited from the mother’s side of the family. Some studies have suggested that hair loss is caused by the presence of excess androgen receptors on the scalp. This was seen as the result of a genetic difference, which caused either more androgen receptors to form, or for those which formed to be more stable and less susceptible to breaking down. The androgen receptor gene resides on the X chromosome, which men inherit from their mother. As a result, it was thought that the cause of hair loss was passed down through the mother, and could usually be traced to the maternal grandfather. If the maternal grandfather was prone to hair loss, common wisdom holds, the grandson will also be susceptible. The truth, however, seems to be that hair loss is inherited no more often from the mother than from the father. The amount of data available on the issue is surprisingly sparse, with most evidence for inheritance through the mother’s side coming from a 1916 study with fairly shaky methodology. Many people now believe that hair loss is inherited from both the mother and the father, and that the actual mechanism by which it is inherited is not understood. Androgen receptor genes appear to be a somewhat simplistic explanation, and don’t necessarily hold up to large sample studies. The data now seems to show that whatever the cause, or more likely causes, of hair loss in men, they have a few characteristics we can be fairly certain of. Firstly, because of the range of people having hair loss, and the correlations between both father-son and maternal-grandfather-grandson baldness, it appears the genes responsible are actually autosomal, residing on neither the X nor the Y chromosome. It also appears that the genes responsible for hair loss have variable penetrance, since full siblings don’t necessarily have the same frequency of hair loss. Lastly, it appears that the genes responsible are in fact dominant, and not recessive as was at one point thought. It is surprising that an issue discussed so frequently has so little data available. In the past few years, however, especially since the mapping of the genome, more large-scale studies have begun on hair loss in men. Although as of yet inconclusive, it is likely that within the next few years the genes responsible for hair loss will finally be pinned down, and we can say once and for all whether the mother or the father is more responsible for passing the gene along.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Feb 24, 2009 22:59:07 GMT -5
Just because they are brothers, doesn't mean both will go bald. One may just be luckier than the other or maybe the hair burglar hasn't visited the other brother yet. And no, wearing hats don't make you go bald. The only outside factors that can cause baldness are poor dieting, stress, or constantly pulling your hair in a ponytail. It's also a myth that it comes from the mother's side of the family. It is not a myth, but it is not the entire story either. Some of the genes most directly involved in hair loss are likely found on the X chromosome, which men only get from their mother. Women can get pattern baldness as well, but as they have two X chromosomes, it hits them less severely. The reason that Angus can be hit harder than Malcolm is that one got the first X chromosome from their mother while the other got the second. |
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Post by livetowin on Feb 24, 2009 23:00:56 GMT -5
Hair plugs, anyone?
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