Is Baldness Natures Way of Telling Women “This One has Bad Genes or is Diseased”, don’t marry him!

If you go back prior to the 19th century, the most common disease in the cities was tuberculosis which was a wasting disease causing significant weight loss. When a person has a wasting disease, they lose hair (man or woman) but if there are genetic factors involved, hair loss appears earlier in wasting diseases in men. Women have estrogen which protects their hair from the effects of the male hormones which they have in their system (just like men, just less), but they would still lose hair when they got tuberculosis. In these olden days, women looking for a man to marry would judge their health by the amount of hair on their head. A woman could not tell the difference between genetic hair loss (which they did not understand prior to 1900) and a sick man with tuberculosis who might die, so women would not want to marry a balding man in fear that he would die after she might have children and then be stranded without a man to support her and her family. This prejudice continues today.

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