DHT

[postit15]

Hair loss is due to DHT blocking follicles, is it usually cause someone is always producing high amounts due their genes activating alpha 5 reductase? But hair loss is sometimes gradual, does that mean this is happening in spurts?

 

[Hoppi]

These are questions I wonder about as well

If someone DOES have higher level of DHT, then yeah, it will increase the likelihood and speed of male pattern hair loss.

Many things seem to increase it, you need a good T and E balance I think.

But someone can lose hair even with baseline DHT levels, if their follicles are sensitive enough or they have enough inflammation ._.

(there may be other factors but I believe those are the biggest 2 )

 

[Bryan]

Hair loss is due to DHT blocking follicles, is it usually cause someone is always producing high amounts due their genes activating alpha 5 reductase? But hair loss is sometimes gradual, does that mean this is happening in spurts?

For a more complete discussion of that, see my recent post in the other thread "Questions, answers appreciated!", in this same forum.

People need to shed this old, corny idea (sorry, I just couldn't resist!) that the degree of balding is determined only to the extent that a man produces DHT and other androgens. Much more important, in my opinion, is the manner and degree to which scalp hair follicles respond to a given amount of androgen, and that's determined by various unknown genetic factors.

 

[Hoppi]

Yeah but a guy with twice as much DHT is going to bald twice as fast (or possibly faster ) even if his follicles have the same sensitivity as another guy.

 

[Bryan]

Yeah but a guy with twice as much DHT is going to bald twice as fast (or possibly faster ) even if his follicles have the same sensitivity as another guy.

I would never be so bold as to make a direct, one-to-one claim like that!

 

[dougfunny]

I would guess DHT levels do not matter all that much. It all depends how your body is programmed to respond to DHT.