Doses of finasteride were at below 0.10 mg a day and the build up over two weeks is what caused me to 'crash' again. Cetirizine is going into my measured 1.5 ml minoxidil dose every morning, fresh. Theoretically wouldn't a water fast, 5ar prohormones, and heavy weight training be really bad for my hair ? Would there be any harm in just using cialis until I (assuming I do) recover naturally ??
OK, that's interesting. There was another poster here, I forget his name, who got side effects at ~0.03 mg/day. I wish that we had more data at low doses.
Now as for your questions:
1) The effect of long-term water-only fasting on hair growth are unknown. It might help because it will raise SHBG levels (correlated with healthier hair) and increase brown fat at the expense of white fat. A recent study showed that fasting has this effect by increasing production of VEGF, which is one of the ingredients in Histogen's formulation. However, fasting has many other effects so there could be other effects going on. I have done many fasts of 1 to 7 days in the past two years and my hair is now healthier.
2) 5ar prohormones will likely be bad for hair. You will need to choose if you're ok being a vegetable with good hair, particularly since there are now many alternatives to finasteride, with more on the way. You might also omit this from your regimen, at which point you might be fully healed or you might only be 50% healed, which is still something worth striving for.
3) The effects of weight training on hair are unknown. It might help because it will improve your blood circulation. It might hurt because it could raise testosterone. Note however that non-balding men have the same testosterone and DHT levels in the blood as balding men. What changes are the number of testosterone receptors in the scalp. That is a different variable. That said, we have the full spectrum of posters here who either work out or don't, and no correlation is obvious among those posters. Many have beach bodies with six packs and good hair. We have had bald toothpicks, bald fat men, and bald athletes. We have the full spectrum.
However, what is known is that weight training is good for your body, your heart, and your mind.
4) Cialis is fine, I'm on cialis too. But it's one step forward and one step back. You're not actually solving the underlying problem which may be severe and be an indicator of other issues. Erectile dysfunction is the canary in the coal mine, it's often among the first things to go wrong if you have underlying health problems.
