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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does he drink a lot of caffeine? Coffee or sports drinks? Taking vitamin D is good but the amount usually recommended as RDA doesn't help if you are significantly low. You can get your doctor to prescribe 50,000 iui once a week and that can be helpful. Also, have his ferritin levels tested. Taking iron can also be helpful but I'd first find out what his levels are. [b]I don't believe that balding is inevitable or genetic.[/b] The thing that caused your father to go bald might also cause you to go bald - but whatever that thing is, there is a cause and a solution. [/quote]

Studies of twins indicate that balding in males, like height, is 80% heritable.[/quote]

The baldness is not heritable. The CAUSE of the baldness is heritable. Perhaps both twins have a tendency to have low ferritin levels or a lack of vitamin D, for example. Perhaps they both have a malabsorption of certain vitamins or Crohn's disease. These causes are identifiable. 
They have a found a correlation between Male Pattern Baldness and heart disease - this means that balding is not purely cosmetic. There is a systemic reason your son is going bald. Just because modern medicine doesn't see it as a problem doesn't mean it isn't one.

If your dog or cat were losing patches of hair, you would investigate the cause, right? OP, get his ferritin tested and vitamin d levels to start with. If they are low, add iron and lysine to his diet and ask for prescription vitamin d. If normal, keep searching for the other cause. [/quote]

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