Is premature baldness an indicator or high T levels?

[Mons Venus]

...I was going bald: thinning on top and receeding a tiny fraction.

But now I have a relativel full head of hair, been using Proscar for years... no side effects, no problems: would recommend it.


The Luke

Proscar lowers both DHT and Test levels = Full head of hair w/ a limp dick.

[The Showstoppa]

Proscar lowers both DHT and Test levels = Full head of hair w/ a limp dick.

Maybe The Luke doesn't mind cause he's a catcher, so he doesn't consider it a side effect?

[Mons Venus]

Simply put...

You inherit a gene from your mother which codes for an enzyme which coverts testosterone (T) into dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Some versions of his gene code for a slightly altered version of the enzyme, in turn producing an isoformic DHT which behaves like the other (normal) version of DHT at every receptor: same mildly anabolic action; same stimulation of sweat and oil glands in the skin; same "hardening" of skeletal muscle tissue; same secondary sexual characeristics (broadened shoulders, body hair, beard, Adam's apple, deep voice etc etc)... EXCEPT when it comes to its interaction with the hair follicles on the top of the head (forehead to crown).

Isoformic DHT causes an induced auto-immune reaction in these head hairs... the hairs spend less time in their anagen phase (growing), less time in their catagen phase (converting to an unsupported club air), and increasingly more time in their telogen phase (a refractory rest period before renewed hair growth).

These shortened anagen and catagen phases produce shorter, thinner, blonder and wispier hairs (short anagen phase) which don't grow for very long and then don't properly root in the scalp (weak catagen phase), and then the hair follicle "sleeps" for an increasingly extended period.

After a few successive cycles under auto-immune rejection conditions the hairs only grow fuzz for short periods then are effectively permanently dormant.

There are other factors and processes involved (stress, toxicity, alopecia etc) but this is the predominant cause of male pattern balding.


If your mothers brothers are bald, or your maternal grandmothers brothers are bald, you'll probably go bald too... it doesn't matter if yor dad is bald or if your uncles on your dads side are bald.


What you can do, (short of a hair transplant) is take a drug named finasteride (prescription needed in Europe but over-the-counter in the US), which blocks the enzyme creating DHT.

The tiny testosterone boost is offset by aromatase enzymes taking up the slack (the extra test converts to estrogen).

One or two milligrams of finasteride (brand name Propecia) per day will drop DHT levels significantly without any real side-effects. Five milligram tablets (sold as the benign-prostate-hyperplasia drug Proscar) is enough to all but eliminate DHT completely... which in turn slows the bading process to a crawl (but it might make you slightly less horny).


Here in Ireland a 28-day pack of 1mg Propecia tablets (28 mg finasteride total) runs approx 75 euro... whereas a 28-day pac of 5mg Proscar tablets (140 mg finasteride total) runs only 48 euro.

...and the prostate drug (if you can get a prescription) is often covered by health insurance unlike the expensive "cosmetic" hair retention packaging of the same drug. Literally eight times the price.


So don't get ripped off... do your own research.


Also, keep finasteride tablets and the powder from the tablets (if you are cutting 5 mg tablets) well away from any woman of child-bearing years... a tiny amount of finasteride could effectively de-masculinate a male foetus... DHT is pivotal in sexual differentiation.



The Luke

                                                                PROSCAR

The most widely used of these is finasteride, sold under the brand name of Proscar. It has been shown to be moderately successful in reducing prostate size in some men and in addressing some of the urinary symptoms associated with BPH. However, it can take as long as six months before it shows results, and the drug has negative side-effects including a direct link to a substantial increase in prostate cancer risk. In fact, men who take this drug have their prostate cancer risk increased 300% according to a 1999 clinical study conducted by the prestigious Norris Cancer Institute of the University of Southern California (USC). Read this study here and ask your doctor if he knows about it. USC Study Links Proscar to Prostate Cancer Among other side effects, it has the potential to decrease libido, cause premature ejaculation and impotence

[younggunz]

for me its about the test, when i was 18-19 i lived a full bodybuilder life had very high test levels natty, and i can remember jus rubbing my head over the table and hair would litterally fall right off, and i mean a good amount, now that i dont train as hard and not living a complete bb lifestyle = less test i no longer shed like a dog. thats me  and thats y i will never do roids id b bald in 3 cycle.