silkeysmooth said:
If you're really concerned about it, go look up info about the psuedo hermaphrodites: the men who were born without the ability to create the type 2 5ar enzyme, and thus don't suffer hair loss and don't develop male genitals.
BTW i'm 5'7 and a half inch as well and all I can say is just deal with it. It's never been a big deal to me, because I never let it affect me. but once it becomes a big deal to you, everybody else notices it.
please check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone and tell me what you think about this. it seems that on the one side you got testosterone/dht and on the other estradiol which is a byproduct of testosterone. From what i read it looks like they should work together, meaning that testosterone (and especially DHT, since it's 2.5x more potent/effective then testosterone) stimulates muscle & height increase while estradiol thickens bone and closes the growth plates. So now i think by blocking DHT you're kinda screwing with the interaction, and as a result you get closure of the epiphysial plate. On a sidenote, why else is it not advisable to take proscar before the age of 18?
I should have known better then to screw with my hormones..but the doctors are really the ones to blame i guess...