Recent content by LewdBear

Lord_Justin13, There seem to be really two distinct claims you're making, so let me summarize (if the summary is wrong, you can restate them in your own words) : 1. ) Elevated cortisol from stress can worsen Androgenetic Alopecia : 2. ) male pattern baldness is associated with these diseases (heart disease/insulin resistance...

Alright, this has become incredibly messy. Let me state my position for everyone in this thread : Regarding medically abnormal cortisol (that is, cortisol outside the upper reference range), I believe I was initially wrong about how often this happens in otherwise physically healthy patients...

Do you know what a personal insult is? In none of those quotes am I saying things like "Are you stupid?" Are you insane?" "You are a moron?". Those are personal insult. It insults the person, not something they've posted. If you had a problem with any of my posts, you could have (and still...

It seems you can't debate without degenerating into personal insults, Lord_Justin. I will say that it is incredibly ironic that you used this study : "Premature androgenic alopecia and insulin resistance. Male equivalent of polycystic ovary syndrome?" This is precisely what I was talking about...

It depends. Sometimes patients classified as "CAIS" do have some minimal degree of androgen sensitivity and might better be classified as part of the PAIS spectrum. However, I'm also skeptical of the idea that it is "...suggesting that mechanisms other than direct androgen action contribute to...

It's interesting. I'm going to check out the full text today. I think the first, and most obvious question, would be : What is the degree of this patient's AIS? It's known that individuals (even those classified with CAIS) can have some mild amount of pubic hair, which would indicate some...

There are studies of balding DPC and their associated changes. Inhibitory autocrine factors produced by the mesenchyme-derived hair follicle dermal papilla may be a key to male pattern baldness ...

Why are you selectively citing symptoms of Cushing's Syndrome? We're talking about healthy people. What the association is remains unclear. A lot of people have this idea that male pattern baldness is frequently part of a larger syndrome, and I fail to understand why. There is obviously a subset of individuals...

I'll try to use more happy faces.

Since the article you linked only seems to cite one source (regarding wound healing), I cannot know what some of those claims are based on. Here is the most basic problem : Cortisol can do everything the article claims in disease states where it is medically abormal. A healthy person can...

Define "heavy stress". Do we mean.. losing your keys? Starving? Getting dumped by your girlfriend? Getting obscene phone calls? Occasionally studies use the vague term "psychosocial stress." But this is measured by medically accepted depression/anxiety inventories. A lot of studies deal with a...

Almost no one who has been around hair loss forums, for any substantial period of time, cares about subjective experiences. A lot of people starting a new treatment (particularly a fringe one), can convince themselves that it's working even if it isn't. It's an intersection of placebo effect, personal...

This is very true. Even a minor concealment of the hairline through hairstyle can make you look dramatically different if you are NW3/4. I think NW3 is possibly the worst norwood stage in terms of anxiety. You're not officially bald, but you still look older/nerdier than before. You wage a...

Not you; misterE. It was a reference to the other thread where he was asking for proof that estradiol had positive outcomes on hair growth in vivo. From http://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=57333&start=70 : "I want to see some studies showing that 16-hydroxyestrogen and...

Why is suggesting the need for objective laboratory evidence such an offensive idea? Whether it's "general hormone regulation" or not, no one can just wake up one morning and go "oh wow, my free test feels lower today!" It makes no sense.