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Tim, stress and male pattern balding have no intricate relationship. The stress-induced hair loss doesn't follow the Norwood Scale pattern and is reversible. Male pattern baldness follows it and is not reversible naturally. The biological mechanisms are also different. At the same time people with chronically lowered cortisol-hormones-line can still get stressed all the same, however, if the theory i advocate is right, their cortisol then falls to a slightly deficient default state. It is interesting to note that a chronically low cortisol has clinical symptoms and is called "adrenal fatigue". As far as i know MPB sufferers don't seem to normally have adrenal fatigue. Aging men don't necessarily have adrenal fatigue either, though. I believe a lowered hormonal tone "covers" the single deficiency by simply reducing the amount of hormone you need to feel alert. In fact, aging men tend to sleep progressively less despite the lower hormonal tone.