Myths of Male Pattern Baldness

You inherit baldness through your mother's male relatives. Actually, baldness can come from either side of the family, or both. Looking at your family can give you at best an educated guess about how you'll turn out.

Longer hair puts a strain on roots. They don't. And hats don't choke off the circulation to the scalp to cause hair loss either.

Shampooing does not accelerate balding.

"Poor circulation" does not cause hair loss, and massaging doesn't stop it.