You've found yourself thinning at the crown or receding in the front? Perhaps you just see overall thinning at the top or what we call diffusion.
You've bought a better shampoo and stopped wearing hats. You've told the barber under any circumstances should she move your lining back further. You may have even bought a topical vasodilator.
You are experiencing changes on your scalp. So more than likely, you are experiencing male pattern balding, albeit mild currently.
Truthfully, I would not trust that "slight or mild" wont turn to severe and quicker than you can imagine. This is because you bald all over but the front and the crown are "weakened" naturally so they show up first. By the time you see receding, it has been going on for quite a while all over including the sides. What is receding or thinning? Each follicle pore has 4-5 hairs growing out of it naturally.
Thinning is a follicle losing or just stop producing 1-2 hairs. Thus it looks "thinner" having only 1-2 hairs in the follicle pore. Receding is a line of hairs or a whole entire area of the scalp is losing the hairs in lockstep and once the follicle is without a hair, the skin over grows it. You find that "receding" is basically skin over growing over a follicle that no longer grows hair. Fibrosis kicks in but that's a bit more complex. Simply put, your scalp conditons are eroding.
The good news is that you can halt it (easy), or reverse it (much harder) but you have to get in front of it as soon as you notice because, again, at that time, its been going on for a while. You are just now late to the party. Back to the Barber - repairs the scalp so hairs have a better change at growing in better conditions.
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