to understand malepattern hair loss properly known as androgenic alopecia one must understand the life cycle of a normal scalp full of hair parting ways a brief look into malepattern baldness as a tai chi teacher i have met many people who hold their energy in their upper bodies as we get older it becomes more and more important to maintain stability in walking and turning by lowering our energy below the waist walking on the right side how stable is your gait at first okay for a while i was angry this was not the way id planned spending my formative years after all but then i began to contemplate making peace with my enemy strange as that sounds my experience with neuromyelitis optica nmo and the journey to find a cure