What Kills Hair Follicles?
Baldness is caused by many factors among which include inherited traits, disease, drugs and nutrition. All these factors affect follicles either by causing them to go dormant or totally killing them. So what kills follicles then? Hair follicles can be killed by starving them from oxygen and nutrients. This happens in the case of male pattern baldness. In male pattern baldness follicles are made to shrink by dihydrotestosterone (DHT) which constricts the blood vessels supplying them with oxygen and nutrients. If the concentration of DHT increases it can completely prevent follicles from receiving any nourishment. This causes some of these follicles to die. Some follicles may not die but however they go into a dormant state and appear as dead. Dead follicles express themselves by failure to produce hair resulting in bald patches on the scalp. Hair follicles can also be killed by diseases. There are diseases such as cancer. Cancer results in the production of abnormal cells. These abnorma
