Testosterone may function as a dht antagonist as a man ages, having positive implications for hair growth and health. The prevailing myth for years has been that a high testosterone level is somehow bad for hair, due largely to its assumed propensity to increase DHT. We still occasionally get pestered with the age old question, “will lifting weights increase hair loss, due to the increase in testosterone.” First of all, the borderline moronic way most people train (or overtrain) will have little effect, if any on raising testosterone, and even if it did they would likely be helping their hair in a roundabout way. An associated myth is that balding men are somehow more virile, with the perverse paradox being that hair loss likely reduces the chance of having “virile” encounters. One study evaluating hormone levels in men with hair loss revealed that men with male pattern baldness actually have lower testosterone levels than the non-balding controls. So much for the myth of increased virility.
