Stax,
You can a check out this article from L'Oreal, via the Sunday Times. They pretty much claim baldness is just the extreme early ageing of a hair follicle and this is the result of their research.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFrien ... 10,00.html
Here is another company's claim about testosterone's effect on men's skin (not hair) here
http://alpecin.com/en/pdf/alpecin_research_2.pdfhats a short article, but you get the gist of what is said.
Look at a couple of pictures for me.
http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archi ... ton-vi.jpg
There are pictures of the young Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Now look at them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hillary.jpg
and here
http://content.answers.com/main/content ... ention.jpg
Notice anything? See how much more he has aged than she has. This is not a unique phenomenon in my experience. Men get greyer, age facially and have more "aged" hair than women do even if they dont have baldness. Old couples CONSTANTLY seem to attest to this.
Let me give you another example. Here is a pic of actor Michael Douglas, who has the same high aristocratic hairline he always has had at 56
http://www.theincrowdvlog.com/incrowdvl ... ouglas.jpg
Now look at French actress Catherine DeNeuve
http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/imag ... 259381.jpg . Catherine is in her early sixties now I think. She would be about the same age as Douglas in that photograph. She has aged very well. Look at the hair.....................not grey yet. Neither one of them has baldness, or recession. However, I bet as the years after menapause pass......she will beging to "catch up" with him. Ive seen this on several old couples after the wife passes menaupause. They are not protected by estrogen in their dermal tissues nearly as much.
Think about the pictures of the two transexual twins also.
You mentioned hormones affect the sexes differently. That very well proboably is right, but to an extent they effect many of us the same way.
Transexuals take flutamide orally. Its an androgen receptor blocker. Your hips will swell, *** get bigger, you'll grow tits, and generally become quite feminine if you take if for a long time. Its effects are heightened if you take estrogen. I seen a Maury Povitch show that explained all this crap and they paraded some real women and transexuals who still were technically men out before the audience and let the audience guess who was a girl and who was not. They only got about half of them right. I only got about half of them right. Even their beards apparently dont grow much at all after being on hormone for a long while/and laser hair removal.
The female transexuals who wanted to look like men also prove the same point. Shoot a gal up with enough testosterone, she loses her ***, her tits shrink, she gets shoulder muscles, wider back, can build up in the gym........becomes much like a man without the equipment. Im old enough to remember the old East German female athletes that used steroids. Women with receeding temples and big muscles winning footraces. It was wierd.
As far as you taking extra male hormone......it will help you build bigger muscles and recover quicker after workouts. Im older now, and am sore for a couple of days after I pump iron. Im still pretty built up and am pretty damn strong for my age/weight. But I aint' what I used to be. Mark McGuire took that andro because he said he was tired of being sore all the time. I hate it that young kids associate roid's with Jose Canseco, who as a Puerto Rican, had wonderful hair genes. He could proboably bathe in DHT and not lose hair. Doesnt have the genes. But oh Stax, have I seen bodybuilders have hair FLY out of their heads after a cycle of dinabol or winstrol. The other poster was right about another thing too........maybe its the tanning, but lots of guys I used to pump with when I was in my twenties sure look older now. Greying, grey beards brows. Its a calculated risk. If its something youre worried about, perhaps you could use Pickart's folligen on your face too? I have some of that. It seems like great stuff. The difference for folligen for hair and the face is quite small, just a few different ingredients. The hair cream and lotion also have saw palmetto oil, which is an weak anti-androgen. Food for thought. Take care of your back in the gym too man. Ever really hurt it, that pain doesnt seem to ever leave you for good. Experience talkin'.
