thicker body hair accompanying balding?

[HughJass]

I think my eyebrows are denser, perhaps more nose hair as well. Don't know if it has anything to do with male pattern baldness or is just the perils of aging. Been on dutasteride for almost a decade now and it hasn't seemed to slow the body hair creep.Has anyone else experienced similar?





edit: retard should have used search first. Didn't expect it to be such a common complaint!

 

[Philly78]

Are you also on minoxidil?
But yes, when you get older you end up having more body hair (back, chest, nose, ears etc...) and with what i've noticed, it is often more associated with men with male pattern baldness. They always seems to be more hairy than men without male pattern baldness...

 

[HughJass]

I ditched minoxidil years ago, just on dutas every 3days now and have been for about a decade.


Body hair sucks!

 

[abcdefg]

I dont buy its aging because aging does not skip people everyone is affected nearly equally by it. I think there are some guys at like 40 or 50 that have very little hair on body and probably have nearly all their hair on the head. I cant see any reason to think its anything but androgens over time that cause it.

 

[HughJass]

I'm sure this study has probably already been posted and discussed before

Abstract

The relation between hair growth and levels of sex hormones in serum and saliva was investigated in 256 !Kung San and Kavango men (ages 18 to 39 years) from Namibia/Southern Africa. Serum concentrations of total testosterone (Tser), 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT), and estradiol (E2) as well as the level of bioavailable non-SHBG-bound testosterone in the saliva (Tsal) were determined by radioimmunoassay. The distribution and density of scalp and facial hair as well as the development of terminal hair on the chest, abdomen, pubic area, arms, fingers, and legs were categorized using objective criteria. Covariance analyses revealed marked differences in the distribution of body hair in the San and the Negro sample. This is partly explained by a significant influence of androgen and estrogen levels on the growth of terminal hair. DHT and the ratio DHT/Tser are significantly positively related to midphalangeal hair growth and negatively to pubic hair development. Tsal, the bioavailable fraction of total testosterone, exerts a weak positive influence on the degree of arm and leg hair growth; the most significant positive effect on the growth of abdominal, arm, and leg hair in our samples is caused by E2. The ratio Tser/E2 correlates significantly negatively with the arm and leg hair development and the ratio DHT/E2 with the degree of abdominal, pubic, arm, and leg hair, whereas lower DHT concentrations occur in men with stronger hair development.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8273828