Hair today, gone tomorrow: the bald truth about men's hair loss

While coming to terms with his midlife receding hair, Pat Fitzpatrick talks with friends who started to lose their hair at a young age

Pat Fitzpatrick: 'Hair loss is an issue for most men, whatever age it starts to happen'. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

I JUST took a picture of the top of my head. The hair is getting pretty thin up there, I’m well on the way to the bald-on-top monk look that two of my uncles had for as long as I knew them.

Some 85% of men will experience ‘significant thinning hair’ by the time they reach 50, according to The American Hair Loss Association. I’m not delighted that I’m thin on top, but that’s about level par for my age (53) and I don’t feel the need to do anything about it.