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Do Hats Cause Baldness
Do Hats Cause Baldness?
Just about everyone has heard the myth, but many still wonder
if it is really true – do hats cause baldness? This most eternal of
hair loss questions has a very simply answer – no. Hats are not a cause of
this condition.
The myth about headwear causing baldness has been passed around for
generations by men who found themselves going bald shortly after entering
military service. This of course led to questions about the cause of loss,
and theories that tight-fitting military hats were the reason so many
military personnel start losing their hair.
Another way that the myth has been spread is through western (so-called
“cowboy”) culture. Balding cowboys are fairly common, and because they
typically wear cowboy hats, it is part of western folklore that this is what
causes a man to lose his tresses, so to speak. The answer to all these
questions, though, is that baldness and loss of hair simply do not occur
from wearing any sort of hat.
So if caps or hats (military, cowboy or otherwise) do not cause a receding
hairline, why is it that so many men who wear them experience loss of their
hair? The answer to this question is quite simple. The truth is that men
enter the military, and most often start to wear cowboy hats regularly, at
about the same age at which male
pattern baldness begins to appear.
In other words, it is nothing more than coincidence when men who regularly
wear something on their head start to experience loss of hair. In the case
of military men, the age at which they typically participate in the armed
forces is the age at which men who are genetically predisposed to balding
will start to show signs of this occurring. The same holds true for men who
frequently wear a cowboy hat; male hair
loss causes are related to genetics and heredity, not to the wearing of
hats.
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