The observed and documented changes (search "hunter-gatherers” in a search engine images) and you will notice that it is very difficult to find balding, even very old men among the traditional peoples of all races, unless some of them have become exposed to modern eating and lifestyle.

Among the isolated peoples,  both men and women, are hardly ever observed to have even thinning hair, unless, of course, they are the ones more likely to have contact with modern diet. Those exposed to a more Western diet are perhaps the members working in busy tourist areas where employers, and tourists, provide the modern goodies, like soft drinks and sweets and processed packaged foods.

If the traditional eating habits and lifestyle among many isolated tribes of hunter-gatherers are gradually changed to more contemporary, they are followed by an increase of the diseases of civilization, such as heart diseases, diabetes, cancer and common hair loss disorders, like baldness.

This phenomenon can be explained by the recent discoveries in a field of genetics, called epigenetics.

The science of epigenetics sheds new light on how some environmental factors influence gene functions (gene expressions); i.e. how heredity can be altered and either lead to the development, or prevention, of many diseases, including common hair loss disorders, previously believed to be solely genetic disorders.

This new evidence could explain the high prevalence of common hair loss disorders in the developed lands in comparison to many isolated communities of people of all races.

Many often harmful environmental factors, such as harsh chemicals, high radiation and a more modern diet and lifestyle, can turn on certain genes and induce, or contribute, to the diseases previously thought to be hereditary only.

On the other hand, a healthy diet and living, only in principles similar to the hunter-gatherers, can keep, or turn the genes off, and prevent the heredity linked disorders, such as common baldness in men and women.

The new compelling findings in the science of epigenetics point to the clear conclusion that while inherited genes may predispose men and women to some diseases, such as common baldness. 

Those genes wouldn’t have to necessarily be tuned on, or activated, and cause the diseases, until someone is affected by the unfavourable environmental factors, such as a more modern diet and lifestyle.

Modern living, in turn, may contribute to gene activation and the development of diseases, or disorders, including common baldness.

1. Eleven pairs of Japanese male twins suggest the role of epigenetic differences in androgenetic alopecia.

While not all genes necessarily get turned on among all people living in a more modernized environment, the ever increasing number of the diseases of civilization, including baldness experienced by 80% of men, and 50% of women, by the age of 80, clearly point to the urban lifestyle and diet as the main contributing factors.

The relatively few remaining isolated societies of all races  still with a few cases of metabolic disorders, such as common baldness, point to the natural, prophylactic measures that can be undertaken in order to prevent and reverse common baldness.

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