blink said:if propecia/finasteride doesnt work, how do you explain people that regrow hair on just finasteride alone?
somone uk said:i think i have mentioned castration 3-4 times on this thread and i have had heard no reason to why people who are castrated before pubety don't go bald, nor i hear any reason to WHY a castrated man would then go bald after he is given testosterone
misterE said:Here we go again. Nice try. You aren’t going to mislead me Bryan.
misterE said:It doesn’t make sense to think androgens causes hair loss and prostate enlargement, if that was so, then every teenage boy would be bald and impotent.
misterE said:Come on folks, can’t y’all see Bryan’s motives, he’s misleading us into thinking that the hormones needed for proper sexual function, prostate health and hair growth are, in fact doing the opposite. If you take away androgens you are going to have less virility, muscles, and hair.
misterE said:[[ Obviously balding doesn’t occur around puberty, it usually occurs around age 30.......
beaner said:misterE said:[[ Obviously balding doesn’t occur around puberty, it usually occurs around age 30.......
wesleyBelgium said:the receptors on the hairfollikels are the key in male pattern baldness
if you have a way to break them down on your scalp... (asc-j9)
its the future, will replace fina and duta over time...
i dont believe its just balanced with hormonelevels....
mykal_P said:MisterE does bring up some interesting points but proof is the ultimate silencer in this case.
Bryan said:misterE said:But why do you think that androgens are the main cause of hair loss in men when androgens actually decrease as men age?
That question comes up occasionally on hairloss sites like this one (or related questions, like "Why do some people start balding relatively late in life, even though their androgen levels are highest in their late teenage years, or early 20's?"). I'm going to answer that question for all the other readers who may be wondering the same thing (you've demonstrated to me that you don't listen to what people tell you). There are at least TWO important reasons for why it can take a long time for a man to develop balding, even though his overall androgen levels may be slowly declining:
1) Damage to hair follicles from androgens is cumulative, and can sometimes take YEARS to develop. It doesn't just happen overnight.
2) Scalp hair follicles can become more and more sensitive to androgens over a period of time (years). They don't simply change from being relatively insensitive to androgens (like they are, prior to puberty) to being fully sensitive to androgen the day that puberty hits. It's a gradual process of becoming more and more sensitive to androgens. The very slowly declining average levels of androgens in aging men by itself isn't sufficient to stop the balding process.
S Foote. said:This speculation of yours has a very big flaw Bryan, as i have pointed out to you before. There have been at least two times in past posts where i have explained this flaw to you, but you have refused to answer my point.
Bryan said:S Foote. said:This speculation of yours has a very big flaw Bryan, as i have pointed out to you before. There have been at least two times in past posts where i have explained this flaw to you, but you have refused to answer my point.
We have discussed this before, and I have already answered your point (to the very limited degree that it can even be called a "point"): nobody can give you a specific answer to your question, for the simple reason that nobody knows the exact biochemical steps involved in making hair follicles either stimulated by androgens, or suppressed by them, and certainly not the reasons that they transform from one kind to the other. So your question is moot and unanswerable. For the time being, anyway.