The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
That's because different people, depending on their genetic lineage, have different patterns of androgen receptors on their scalp. The pattern of androgen receptors that you inherit indeed does come from your mother's side.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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I think that, as we'll later learn in this episode, reflects a higher density of DHT, dihydrotestosterone, receptors at that particular location as opposed to elsewhere in my scalp.