Just thinking that smoking might help male pattern baldness

chewbaca · Apr 7, 2005

Just imagine there are hundred of chemicals in a stick of tobacco

SOmeone already posted a thread on Heroin and the uncanny co incidence of people taking it with full heads of hair

What IF.....one os those poisons may just alter cell mechanisms, enzymic activity ect?....it mightjust be possible as its been proven before that chemeicals can alter biological mechanisms int his way.....anyone else thinks so?

hairschmair · Apr 7, 2005

You could say the same thing for just about anything we put into our mouthes.

X ... COULD help fight against male pattern baldness.
Y ... COULD help fight against male pattern baldness.

There's no point really. If it was something as well tested as smoking, we would probably know. It's probably one of the best tested 'things' we have in society. Every other person smokes, lol... We would know by now.

Gilgamesh · Jun 27, 2005

opiates long term blunt ACTH and surpress cortisol

excess cortisol and HPA disregulation lead to insulin resistance

both of these are the cause of male pattern baldness moreso than dht (which damages downstream)

this is why heroin addicts are less bald

Axon · Jun 27, 2005

Absolutely not. Most likely it does very little either way to hair loss.

You'd love to think it does help though, wouldn't you? Always nice to have an excuse to light up, eh?