Scientists Link Male Pattern Balding to Wildly Popular Beverage

[Rams]

Scientists Link Male Pattern Balding to Wildly Popular Beverage

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/scientists-link-male-pattern-balding-to-wildly-popular-beverage/ar-AA15Wjo3?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fc7268905b0e416f9afa6ad5aa63448b

Soda drinkers, beware — it looks like your favorite sugary drinks may be linked to hair loss.

A new study out of Tsinghua University in Beijing has found a new link between sugary drinks and male pattern hair loss, with beverages ranging from soft drinks to artificially-sweetened juices to energy drinks being some of the primary culprits.

In short, it's depressing news: all the stuff that tastes really great may make you lose your hair.

The paper, newly published in the journal Nutrients, is hardly the first we've heard about the ill health effects of sugary drinks. And doctors have long suspected a link between excess sugar and hair loss.

But the study's wider-lens examination of the connection is intriguing. The researchers at Tsinghua's Vanke School of Public Health anonymously surveyed 1028 men online between the ages of 18 and 45 on the Chinese mainland last year, asking them their sweetened drink intake, any health issues they may be experiencing, whether they smoked or drank, and if they were experiencing hair issues, as well as psychological questions.

The results were striking. Respondents with male pattern baldness, they found, were drinking an average of 4,293 milliliters per week — that's more than a gallon, or more than two of those two-liter bottles of Pepsi you can buy at the grocery stores — while respondents with full heads of hair drinking just 2,513 milliliters.

More research is needed, but the Tsinghua researchers hypothesized that the root cause could be sugary drinks' propensity to heighten blood sugar. Diabetes studies have shown that heightened blood sugar levels appear to be associated with hair loss, and with sweet drinks being a major risk factor for developing or worsening diabetes, so the logic may hold up.

Given that this research linking sugary drinks and male pattern hair loss is so preliminary, the paper's authors noted that further study is needed. Nonetheless, it's an intriguing — and disturbing — new reason not to pound down too many sodas or Red Bulls.

From the same nation that didn't share COVID with us, reliable information?   Hard to say but, this I know, it's too late to save my balding head.  

Edited:   Bald is sexy.   Right?

Rams 

[Jess from VA]

So if all the men in your family on both sides were bald, you won't be bald too if you lay off the cola?

 

[Patrick]

Have a friend that has never used alcohol and always drinks Coke or Pepsi. He just turned 81 and has a head full of bright black curly hair.

[carolinarider09]

Am I correct in the determination that the "study" was done in China with Chinese males that were online????   

You know, inquiring minds. 

Caveat:  Always thought a "study" like this should be totally random and include all of the identified subjects (i.e. in this case males, not just males online).   But then I have not slept at a Holiday Inn recently. 

[3fan4life]

Guess I should  lay off the Cola and drink more Beer! 

[Jess from VA]

From my schooling, male pattern baldness was used as a primary example of familial genetics.

And brown and blue eyes (brown dominant, blue recessive).

Though I remember reading Coke would remove the rust from a car bumper, so I guess it could remove your hair too.  

[0leman]

From the research, which is questionable, coke type drinks causes baldness.  My dad didn't drink them drinks and had the same type of hair loss as I have.   I do drink and have since I was young.  I have seen pictures of my dad's dad.  He also had the same hair loss.   I am pretty sure he didn't drink those drinks either.   So why are we having hair loss?  NOT surgery drinks. 

[Rams]

Please note that I did not certify this research to be accurate.   

Rams   

[Oldfishguy]

Well, this is a Chinese self reporting study with just 1000 participants.

Maybe ??

If the Chinese government was starting to see a jump in diabetics among the population, what better way to curb it by hitting at egos; probably more effective than a massive eduction effort correlating sugary drinks to diabetics.

That study would never be published in the free world because the peer review process would tear it to shreds.  

[scooperhsd]

Scientists Link Male Pattern Balding to Wildly Popular Beverage

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/scientists-link-male-pattern-balding-to-wildly-popular-beverage/ar-AA15Wjo3?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fc7268905b0e416f9afa6ad5aa63448b

Soda drinkers, beware — it looks like your favorite sugary drinks may be linked to hair loss.

A new study out of Tsinghua University in Beijing has found a new link between sugary drinks and male pattern hair loss, with beverages ranging from soft drinks to artificially-sweetened juices to energy drinks being some of the primary culprits.

In short, it's depressing news: all the stuff that tastes really great may make you lose your hair.

The paper, newly published in the journal Nutrients, is hardly the first we've heard about the ill health effects of sugary drinks. And doctors have long suspected a link between excess sugar and hair loss.

But the study's wider-lens examination of the connection is intriguing. The researchers at Tsinghua's Vanke School of Public Health anonymously surveyed 1028 men online between the ages of 18 and 45 on the Chinese mainland last year, asking them their sweetened drink intake, any health issues they may be experiencing, whether they smoked or drank, and if they were experiencing hair issues, as well as psychological questions.

The results were striking. Respondents with male pattern baldness, they found, were drinking an average of 4,293 milliliters per week — that's more than a gallon, or more than two of those two-liter bottles of Pepsi you can buy at the grocery stores — while respondents with full heads of hair drinking just 2,513 milliliters.

More research is needed, but the Tsinghua researchers hypothesized that the root cause could be sugary drinks' propensity to heighten blood sugar. Diabetes studies have shown that heightened blood sugar levels appear to be associated with hair loss, and with sweet drinks being a major risk factor for developing or worsening diabetes, so the logic may hold up.

Given that this research linking sugary drinks and male pattern hair loss is so preliminary, the paper's authors noted that further study is needed. Nonetheless, it's an intriguing — and disturbing — new reason not to pound down too many sodas or Red Bulls.

From the same nation that didn't share COVID with us, reliable information?   Hard to say but, this I know, it's too late to save my balding head.  

Edited:   Bald is sexy.   Right?

Rams  

My dad always said "God only created a few perfect heads. He put hail on all the rest " . Dad was pretty bald from colon cancer in his 20's....

Edit - HAIR instead of HAIL.... 

[Jess from VA]

Hail, or hair? 

[Oss]

coke also dissolves those baby teeth that you purchased from the tooth fairy