Legitimately what I’ve been saying for years while everyone wants to argue and defend the mainstream narrative that makes little sense.
Animals bald or lose hair only when they’re sick, malnourished, and/or under severe chronic stress (i.e. in captivity, for example). All of which overlap.
Humans are just SO unique as to be the only species on the planet to bald “naturally” and produce SUCH high androgens that they… *checks notes* cause your hair to fall out solely on a very small area of the scalp and literally nowhere else on the body with hair, despite an epidemic of low testosterone and dihydrotestosterone. Get real with yourself. The explanations never made much of any sense and you’ve all just gone along with it.
Balding on a genetic level has never served a purpose for the survival of an organism, the primary and sole reason why genetics are passed down and transferred. You know what does get passed down and transferred often to the detriment of longterm health and potentially survival? Poor dietary, lifestyle, and environmental habits. Poor mitochondrial DNA. High heteroplasmy rates.
It’s never had anything to do with the nuclear genome. Cry to your mother about it, don’t shoot the messenger.
It was previously thought that androgenetic alopecia (AGA), was solely due to androgens & genetic predisposition
However, it was discovered that mitochondria in cells from balding patients had less ETC activity, & lower ATP levels, implying metabolism is involved in AGA