Dr. Nigam's explanation of why hair loss is increasing

[hairy]

http://www.mid-day.com/specials/2011/apr/100411-hair-loss-indian-men.htm

Dr Nigam puts it to Darwanian theory, though. Having spent eleven years in the transplant industry, he has seen his clients get younger. "It's evolution. According to the Darwanian theory, man must evolve. He is now indoors a lot more, and doesn't need as much body hair to protect him from the environment. The human brain is increasing in size. Blood is being diverted there as opposed to feeding hair follicles."

The problem with this explanation in my case is that I am hairy as phuk throughout much of my body.

Regards,

hairy

[hellouser]

My legs are riddled with hair. I'm still far from being an NW7... but its like, what I've lost up top, I've gained more and then some elsewhere. My pubes are like a jungle.

[HairBane]

He should stick to curing baldness, he clearly doesn't understand natural selection

[walrus]

He should stick to curing baldness, he clearly doesn't understand natural selection

This. Not least that it is Darwinian (though that could be the editors fault), but these comments are baseless and without evidence. Dare I say, unscientific of a doctor to make.

[Arashi]

He should stick to curing baldness, he clearly doesn't understand natural selection

Hehe, someone should give Nigam a book about Darwinism to educate him.

[cotto]

What a stupid theory. There isnt any natural selection in our life style right now, maybe in some places at world where people dies at young ages but not in developed countries.

Nigams please dont make those afirmations beacuse you looks like a clown an we have a lot of hope i you.

[Atum]

So according to this theory, male's are the only one evolving than?!?

[didi]

So according to this theory, male's are the only one evolving than?!?

Women got some catching up to do...

imagine hot NW7 woman...

Gods sending nigams to stop evolution process...

[hellouser]

Women got some catching up to do...

imagine hot NW7 woman...

Gods sending nigams to stop evolution process...

I can't imagine that, I'm another general social parasite that demonizes baldness and mocks it for my own advantage.

[sdsurfin]

?

wow thats depressing, clearly knows jack all about how evolution works. and this is our top hairloss hope? How can he cure a genetic condition when he doesn't even have a good comprehension of how genetics work? oh well.

Also I've seen girls with fully shaved heads that looked good as hell. definitely not used to it and have been programmed to like long hair, but bald can definitely be pretty. most girls have smaller and more weirdly shaped heads though.

Oh and natural selection is definitely still acting upon humans, albeit in different ways. whoever made the statement that it's not needs to read about epigenetics. And also realize that most of the world still does not enjoy good living conditions or a long life span.

[MackJames]

This statement makes me doubt everything Nigam's ever said.

[Morbo]

it's scientifically proven - in which I mean by real scientists and not some obscure Indian quack - that men with a lots of body hair have up to 50 % more chance of going bald than men with little body hair.

So much for that theory.

[hiilikeyourbeard]

dht is only bad under poor scalp conditions

[greatjob!]

Yeah because evolution happens so quickly you can observe it happening in your life time...

I hope this was misquoted or taken out of context. If the frequency of mpb is truly increasing or the age of onset becoming lower, it's because it's most likely an autosomal dominant trait, simple as that.

[bigentries]

Yeah because evolution happens so quickly you can observe it happening in your life time...

Yeah, and he talks about huge indicators that have never been proven to be correlated to baldness

And people still doubt that baldness is really more prevalent today, since statistics are very poor

Look, I don't believe in Nigam, but every legit scientist loves to make unfounded comments from time to time that they believe are somewhat true but can't really prove them in any way. James Watson was infamous because of those comments and it took years for someone to get offended and confront him. But it doesn't change any achievements he's made