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When I was 17 I started getting into lifting weights a lot and doing protein shakes, It had been a few months and I got into shape pretty quickly when I noticed my hair was receding, I was shedding like crazy. Out of paranoia I stopped the weights which had become a passion of mine and went on a long depressing journey of hair loss treatment.
Anyway now at 25 I'm at a point where I've stabilised my loss somewhat (not quite maintaining but slow progression, no itch or shedding). However I just started lifting again, high intensity 3/4x a week and supplementing with protein shakes + a bulking diet. And sure as anything, coinciding with my new routine the 'itch' has come back, I haven't had it in years, and I'm shedding more than usual.
I know the consensus is that bodybuilding and using shakes shouldn't have an affect on male pattern baldness but for me the correlation is there. My diet is clean, just meat, oats, eggs, nuts, and vegetables mainly, and the shake doesn't have creatine or anything like that. I would guess it's due to raised T levels as I've also noticed my beard is growing quicker, but that contradicts what I heard about lifting not raising T that much apart from small spikes. Wondering if anybody else has noticed something similar with their loss when working out.
Anyway now at 25 I'm at a point where I've stabilised my loss somewhat (not quite maintaining but slow progression, no itch or shedding). However I just started lifting again, high intensity 3/4x a week and supplementing with protein shakes + a bulking diet. And sure as anything, coinciding with my new routine the 'itch' has come back, I haven't had it in years, and I'm shedding more than usual.
I know the consensus is that bodybuilding and using shakes shouldn't have an affect on male pattern baldness but for me the correlation is there. My diet is clean, just meat, oats, eggs, nuts, and vegetables mainly, and the shake doesn't have creatine or anything like that. I would guess it's due to raised T levels as I've also noticed my beard is growing quicker, but that contradicts what I heard about lifting not raising T that much apart from small spikes. Wondering if anybody else has noticed something similar with their loss when working out.