Soda and energy drink drinkers, beware — it looks like your favorite sugary drinks may be linked to male pattern hair loss.
But the study's wider-lens examination of the connection is intriguing. The researchers at Tsinghua's Vanke School of Public Health anonymously surveyed 1028 men online between the ages of 18 and 45 on the Chinese mainland last year, asking them their sweetened drink intake, any health issues they may be experiencing, whether they smoked or drank, and if they were experiencing hair issues, as well as psychological questions.
The results were striking. Respondents with male pattern baldness, they found, were drinking an average of 4,293 milliliters per week — that's more than a gallon, or more than two of those two-liter bottles of Pepsi you can buy at the grocery stores — while respondents with full heads of hair drinking just 2,513 milliliters.
More research is needed, but the Tsinghua researchers hypothesized that the root cause could be sugary drinks' propensity to heighten blood sugar. Diabetes studies have shown that heightened blood sugar levels appear to be
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