Calculator launched to predict baldness age
- By Jeremy Harkin
- Published 15th August, 2011
- Hair News
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Jeremy Harkin
Jeremy has enjoyed a varied career in advertising and media. He is now a freelance editorial consultant working with mainstream men's mags and their associated websites.
A German hairloss expert has revealed a new online calculator that he claims will enable men to discover the age at which they will go bald.
Dr. Adolf Klenk from the Alpecin research institute in Bielefeld told Sky News that his new baldness calculator works by posing a series of questions to men, such as whether there is a family history of baldness, how far your hairline is currently receding and how many hairs you lose each day.
It then analyses and uses the answers to determine the likely age at which they will lose their hair. It will also tell men if they are not likely to lose their hair.
Alongside the new calculator, Dr Klenk has also created a tool which allows men to upload pictures of themselves and then see what they would look like with a bald head.
Alpecin spokesman Rick Guttridge told the news channel, “It's not a disease so there isn't a cure. But what you can do is treat the condition, with medications to boost your hair.”
“What we have discovered is testosterone has a negative effect on hair loss ... the testosterone makes the energy in each hair follicle run out sooner, so the more testosterone a person has the sooner they will burn out of their energy and the hair will drop out sooner,” the spokesman went on to say.
Dr. Adolf Klenk from the Alpecin research institute in Bielefeld told Sky News that his new baldness calculator works by posing a series of questions to men, such as whether there is a family history of baldness, how far your hairline is currently receding and how many hairs you lose each day.
It then analyses and uses the answers to determine the likely age at which they will lose their hair. It will also tell men if they are not likely to lose their hair.
Alongside the new calculator, Dr Klenk has also created a tool which allows men to upload pictures of themselves and then see what they would look like with a bald head.
Alpecin spokesman Rick Guttridge told the news channel, “It's not a disease so there isn't a cure. But what you can do is treat the condition, with medications to boost your hair.”
“What we have discovered is testosterone has a negative effect on hair loss ... the testosterone makes the energy in each hair follicle run out sooner, so the more testosterone a person has the sooner they will burn out of their energy and the hair will drop out sooner,” the spokesman went on to say.