Boba155 said:
Disabling ARs would systematically be castration
I suppose you're refering to "AR genes"? The gene is merely
associated with androgens or baldness. The gene can have numerous other functions.
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Boba155 said:
Secondly, I was referring to the study that Freakout posted showing that vellus hairs when transplanted onto mice grew terminal. Nordstrom's study showed that transplanting vellus hairs grew vellus. There is a discrepancy here.
The discrepancies:
Human internal environment versus mouse internal environment.
Hamilton study: Castration itself does not promote regrowth.
Full regrowth to terminal hair in ALL 28 men and 11 women in various strains of mice. This does not happen in humans.
(This study was in 2003. Are there studies that contradict this after 2003? I would avoid discrediting
any study.)
This is not much of a conclusion:
Androgens is not the inhibiting factor. Something in humans not present in mice is.
I think androgens is,
initially, key to
male baldness, not women's. Androgens influence this inhibiting factor in male baldnes. In women, the same inhibiting factor is influenced by something else. Finding and successfully addressing it is the key hair regrowth.
We might be surprised in was just in our pockets all this time!