By far and away, the most common type of baldness in men is androgenic alopecia, also known as male pattern baldness because of the M shaped pattern of hair loss. This condition generally takes years and your hair will become progressively thinner and eventually wont grow at all. Good news, though, there are new things that you can do to learn how to avoid hair loss in men.

It has long been believed that hair loss in men was genetic, but new evidence is suggesting that there really is no such pattern. It is now believed that one of the main factors in hair loss is an excess level of the hormone DHT.

While at normal levels DHT plays a vital role in your body, when it becomes unbalanced and there is too much of this hormone men can suffer from something called follicular miniaturization which is just a long winded way of saying that the hair follicles are constantly getting smaller and thinner.

The most popular method for stopping hair loss used to be taking prescription drugs called Propecia or Minoxidil but these drugs were found to have severe side effects such as erectile dysfunction, gynecomastia (growing of breasts), acne and headaches to name a few. Most men didnt think that growing breasts was an acceptable side effect for saving their hair!