The Galea Aponeurotica's Role In Male-Pattern Baldness and Hair Loss

Does the galea aponeurotica hold the key to male-pattern baldness and hair loss? What role does this region on the scalp play in people suffering from androgenetic alopecia? Coming right up...

📌 00:00 - Intro
📌 00:35 - What is Galea?
📌 2:28 - How hair loss got it's pattern
📌 4:08 - The evidence linking galea to hair loss
📌 6:05 - What can we do about the tension in the scalp?

Transcription

So aponeuroses are a type of connective tissue, found throughout the body.

They are white in appearance, and similar in their function to tendons.

They basically serve as an attachment point for muscles to attach to the bones or cartilage.

And on the top of the head, underneath the skin, sits an aponeurosis called the galea aponeurotica.

Or simply galea.
Galea was latin for helmet

And by looking at this illustration you can see how the galea got its name.

it basically sits like a helmet over the top part of the scalp.

And it’s located underneath the skin. Sandwiched between the overlying skin and the skull.

And it’s connected to the skin through a layer of dense connective tissue.

So the galea is connected in the front to the frontalis muscle. And in the rear to the occipitalis muscle.

On either lateral side of the head, over the ear area, it’s flanked by other muscles.

I won’t bore you to death with the names.

You can see the various muscles that border the galea in this illustration.

The large white space on the top is the galea.

So guys when I look at this, one thing comes to mind…

Norwood 7.

If you blot out the frontal muscle, which doesn’t have hair over it to begin with, you’re left with this.

Imagine the stripy areas are hair instead of muscles.

And you’re more or less looking at a Norwood 7.

Someone who has advanced to the last stage of androgenetic alopecia, and will lose no more hair.

So it’s clear that hair loss happens only in regions overlying the galea. When you’ve lost all your hair over the galea, you’ve progressed to a Norwood 7, and won’t lose any more hair.

The hair that’s located over the occipital muscle region won’t fall off. And neither will the hair on either side of the galea, which is also over muscle.

Could this be a coincidence?

Well I have to tell you, if it is a coincidence, it sure is a massive one.

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But what about the pattern of hair loss?

Why do we start balding at the front first, at the temples? Followed by recession of the entire frontal hair line?

And why is this then followed by hair loss in the crown, and eventually the whole top of the head?

Why is there such a remarkable consistency in pattern hair loss?

The answer to this might come from a 2015 paper, published in the International Journal of Trichology.

Reference Links:

[Hairguard]

📌 00:00 - Intro
📌 00:35 - What is Galea?
📌 2:28 - How hair loss got it's pattern
📌 4:08 - The evidence linking galea to hair loss
📌 6:05 - What can we do about the tension in the scalp?

[varshanigam]

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[reeds.]

I can't believe how important this topic is and how many people glaze over this. Thank you for your research!

[Flugs]

The tension in the galea is caused by improper neck and head posture and usage of the frontalis muscle. One mainly leads to thinning, the other mainly leads to norwooding at the front.

[varpholous]

Neck mobility exercises
To fix forward head posture and muscle imbalance fixed your hair loss which can be evident throughout daily hair count texture and volume also your scalp has a uniform shape now due to the released scalp muscle tension (no more stress temporal lines and your scalp is moving freely)

As the scalp muscle tension is a second order effect of shoulder, neck and back muscle tension due to overall muscle imbalance between chest and back which causes forward head posture on the long run.

Exercises
1-Inverted head massage using silicone massager
2-Forward Head posture exercises
3-Neck mobility side to side and head movements in all direction
(Swivel head exercise)
4-Walking up right with straight
spine

[TheRhythmicRambler]

I think the elephant in the room is why don't women have the same issue if it's just a matter of tension? Or is it the tightness leads to build up of DHT which of course would be higher in men ?

[NoName-nybt]

Your growband at $297 is way too expensive for a product that could have easily been manufactured in China for $5

[RogerSartet]

6:13 Some 30 years ago, a friend of mine went to a plastic surgeon here in Belgium (I think it was in Bruges, Dr. Decoopman) who supported this theory and had his galea 'cut'. I don't know any details about the procedure. I only remember his forehead was swollen for a couple of weeks and he had two black eyes. I didn't believe in it back then. All I can tell you now is that he didn't go bald, while his father and elderly brother both did (the latter at a very early age).

[amnrasellassie]

A 100% correct. AQBS of Back to the Barber reversed N7 by these principals on his YT channel

[mikeross]

I'd like to buy a growband but you guy's are asking way too much money for what it is.

[hooshangjafarizadeh]

Dear
I have worked on this subject for 40 years and published my research in IJAV, Vol.13, issue 5, Oct.16, 2020
Please first search the internet to find out about the latest researches. If you have read my article please refer to it.
I am sure that you have read it.

[Shrek_is_love_]

You say there is no cure or medication for scalp tension but people have been getting Botox in their tight scalps for migraine headaches for years and reported more hair growth unintentionally?

[tubeguywatcher]

MPB affect only men, a small exceptional minority of women is also affected yes but for the exact same reason as men. ii think the trigger has something to do with insulin resistence and the relationship between androgens like DHT and insulin itself, which are both anabolic hormones and both place the body into an anabolic state. a reactive, volatile state if you will. DHT is known for three things, muscle development and strength, bone and connective tissue development and strength, and hair growth. this theory covers the last two, bone and connective tissue growth and hair growth, but excludes muscle development. i think that muscle development and strength and hypertrophy is the very thing pulling on the scalp and causing tension in the galea and scalp skin, and the areas where the tenson is concentrated is where hairloss manifests like the temples and crown. its also interesting to note that the crown and temples exhibit excessive bone growth as a result of this focused tension, which may suggest that the skull expansion theory is not wrong but reversed, in that skull expansion occurs as a result of scalp tension and not because of DHT. my point is that perhaps the muscles like the temporalis, occipital and frontalis play a major part and requires more focus, maybe even the neck muscles too.

[michaelvaughan]

You’re getting better as you go along, you’re describing information better too

[mahfuzjamil]

Hair growth is all about blood circulation

[HenryMusic]

Is there any way to reverse fibrosis & reverse the miniaturization process?

[kierandoodykd]

Anyone interested, I'd suggest looking at the "Wim Hof breathing method as a way to relax the whole body including the scalp. Plus it feels soooo nice 😂😍

[MarkWatch]

Dont get it how the cost of growband is so expensive fo manufacturing simply ( tube with some plastick velcro ) and the final price to be close to $300? This is extreamly expensive and the alternative is just scalp massage by hand .

[tonyneillaw]

If this were the cause of androgenic alopecia, than how do you explain hair transplants into previously balding areas growing transplanted hair?

[zacharyarmijo]

Keep up the good work, you have helped me so much!