WORKOUT CAUSES HAIRLOSS

[Nickola]

Because there are sooooo many rumours around this topic,i only have one question

Can any1(who is a finasteride user and works out at the same time daily or not) reply to this thread please??

Have you seen any progress to your hairloss,or your hair are getting worse day by day even if youre using finasteride?
Cause they say workout=increased testosterone and testostrone is becoming DHT after..But finasteride suppose to block DHT...
Dunno guys..

 

[Dark Link]

If I answer this question will you believe me? The more I worked out on finasteride the better my hair got. Working out is almost a must while taking finasteride. You put your body at risk to altering hormones that you want to stay healthy so the bad ones don't take over.

But seriously it doesn't make much difference at all. If finasteride is going to change your quality of life which includes your health and working out than it isn't worth it. But working out won't make any difference with your hair. Your t levels might go up but that is a good thing. The same percentage of DHT is going to be blocked and that's all that matters when it comes to hair. Besides DHT and Testosterone don't increase in the same correlation. Testosterone will go up by a greater percentage than DHT does.

 

[Nickola]

If I answer this question will you believe me? The more I worked out on finasteride the better my hair got. Working out is almost a must while taking finasteride. You put your body at risk to altering hormones that you want to stay healthy so the bad ones don't take over.

But seriously it doesn't make much difference at all. If finasteride is going to change your quality of life which includes your health and working out than it isn't worth it. But working out won't make any difference with your hair. Your t levels might go up but that is a good thing. The same percentage of DHT is going to be blocked and that's all that matters when it comes to hair. Besides DHT and Testosterone don't increase in the same correlation. Testosterone will go up by a greater percentage than DHT does.

Did you do any cardio or heavy lifts??
Plus yes i do believe you...i actually want so bad to believe you cause many people are talking **** about working out making them go bald faster(especially if male pattern baldness is in your generics)
Did you notice any hard time on muscle gaining or feeling weaker cause of the drug?
Thank you

 

[Dark Link]

Hard to say. Most of my working out was while I was taking the drug. I didn't workout much before taking it.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

I've been on finasteride for 2 months now. I haven't experienced any loss in strength or any less hair growth progress due to working out. My hair gets better each day. My squats, deads, bench, and pullups haven't been affected at all by the meds either -- there are whispers occasionally that finasteride will turn you into a big puss in the weight room.

 

[zzzzz]

are DHT levels higher in people who workout? no

 

[BrianP]

are DHT levels higher in people who workout? no

How do u know that? Have u seen any studies/trials using men who did no exercise at all and then started working out hard ?? Did it show that their m DHT actually didnt go up?

U cant say that for sure but the logical thing is to assume working out hard does increase DHT since lifting weights will make ur testosterone to go up and even though test goes up more than DHT, DHT should go up aswell, maybe not at a rate that would affect hairloss as it would be a very low increase..

But in people who are very sensitive to DHT that low increase could be enough to cause more hairloss

Im not saying that working out causes hairloss but that it does increase DHT levels from the logical point of view..

 

[stop dht]

Dude think like that . If your hair follicles genetically sensitive to dht it will make your hair fall a lil bit fast but no major cause to hair loss . For example idk who gave me baldness gene but all of my relatives (bald ones) never seem to loss hair before 25 . But i noticed when i was 18 (3.5 year ago) .
If your hair loss very aggressive than your hair follicles are so sensitive so working out may cause some faster hair loss . Without treatment but with some six pack , triceps , adonis u will lose your hair faster . Thats what happened to me but i m not %100 sure , but its obvious working out alone never cause hair loss ( I got very nice body especially with abs but some friends with similar body got not a single thinning but i have ) Sorry for my enklish




For example this is me

 

[mr the hairy monkey]

If it is the case then god have mercy on all the fitness centers because they'll be likely to go bankrupt ....

more seriously , I don't think so (as an opinion ,not as a fact) , it is widely recommended to keep your body in a good shape by every decent mind.

and I suppose that it is pointless to mention that anything done excessively can be harmful for you and your body , because every sane person would know that already.

Just avoid any excessive workout and that should do nicely for your hair.

EDIT : Nickola this is your third thread about this subject , check out the answers on this (made by you as well) : http://www.hairlosstalk.com/interac...out-makes-you-go-bal-faster?highlight=workout

you should have bumped it instead of creating this new one , you'd have had more condensed answers.

I've assumed that you were a french speaker so I spoke french

 

[xRedStaRx]

I workout 4-5 times a week, and hair is slowly improving, or at least maintained.

The issue of T and DHT is too big to assess accurately. But in general, working out should not affect the rate of hair loss. Diet might though.

 

[Nickola]

If it is the case then god have mercy on all the fitness centers because they'll be likely to go bankrupt ....

more seriously , I don't think so (as an opinion ,not as a fact) , it is widely recommended to keep your body in a good shape by every decent mind.

and I suppose that it is pointless to mention that anything done excessively can be harmful for you and your body , because every sane person would know that already.

Just avoid any excessive workout and that should do nicely for your hair.

EDIT : Nickola this is your third thread about this subject , check out the answers on this (made by you as well) : http://www.hairlosstalk.com/interac...out-makes-you-go-bal-faster?highlight=workout

you should have bumped it instead of creating this new one , you'd have had more condensed answers.

I've assumed that you were a french speaker so I spoke french

Ok i am sossy monkey! i won`t open such a thread again in the future....I am just so confused and scared...My treatment till now is 3 months on finasteride and Nizoral and soon i will add minoxidil....I just wanted opinions to come up with a conclusion,cause if you already have male pattern baldness in your generics,like i do,and work out makes you loose your hair faster,i prefer to just work out and stop spending money to drugs for my head..

 

[Dark Link]

I am just so confused and scared...My treatment till now is 3 months on finasteride and Nizoral and soon i will add minoxidil....I just wanted opinions to come up with a conclusion,cause if you already have male pattern baldness in your generics,like i do,and work out makes you loose your hair faster,i prefer to just work out and stop spending money to drugs for my head..

Finasteride induced anxiety? Or normal anxiety experienced by balding men? No way to tell.

Honestly I would stop worrying about it. This is such a small thing to worry about I wouldn't even have it on my plate.

I'm thinking 3 months in you've probably experienced shedding and a change to your hair and appearance. This is normal. Working out isn't the cause of this. The change in your appearance is giving you a lot of anxiety. I can reassure you that it is totally ok to workout and take finasteride. If you aren't liking the drug and that's the real issue than it's ok to quit and workout too. Either way, workout as much as you want. I hope this helps. Sorry that you are having difficulty making a decision on this. But it really is a small thing to be worrying about.

 

[Nickola]

Done

 

[Omri]

I can only attest to my personal experience, but yes – resistance training did significantly increase my hairloss and shedding. Aerobic training on the other hand seemed to decrease it. For the last few years I've had many phases consisting of mostly resistance training, mostly Aerobic training (long distance running) or no training at all. My shedding consistently got worse when I exclusively did resistance training, and only improved when I threw in a session or two of cardio. The shedding also wasn't as bad at periods when I didn't train at all, but always got worse when I began weightlifting again. ​

All I can tell you is to notice the amount of shedding you get each day and write it down in your training schedule. If you see a pattern after a few months you'll know what affects you and decide whether you want to keep weightlifting as intensely as before.​

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Cheers​

 

[Dark Link]

:jackit: Shedding doesn't happen immediately after anything. It takes weeks for shedding to occur. Even if any of the above had any relevance it might be completely opposite of what you think. But it doesn't matter regardless.

 

[Nickola]

I can only attest to my personal experience, but yes – resistance training did significantly increase my hairloss and shedding. Aerobic training on the other hand seemed to decrease it. For the last few years I've had many phases consisting of mostly resistance training, mostly Aerobic training (long distance running) or no training at all. My shedding consistently got worse when I exclusively did resistance training, and only improved when I threw in a session or two of cardio. The shedding also wasn't as bad at periods when I didn't train at all, but always got worse when I began weightlifting again.
All I can tell you is to notice the amount of shedding you get each day and write it down in your training schedule. If you see a pattern after a few months you'll know what affects you and decide whether you want to keep weightlifting as intensely as before.
Cheers​

were you on finasteride all that period?

 

[Dark Link]

were you on finasteride all that period?

Look up peapoddy's success story. He is a bodybuilder and uses finasteride.

 

[Nickola]

Look up peapoddy's success story. He is a bodybuilder and uses finasteride.

I see..
i dont think that guy had male pattern baldness in his generics though...I mean my crown is already visible..
Anyway we will keep on hoping

 

[Omri]

:jackit: Shedding doesn't happen immediately after anything. It takes weeks for shedding to occur. Even if any of the above had any relevance it might be completely opposite of what you think. But it doesn't matter regardless.

I didn't say it happened immediately. It usually took about two and a half weeks of nothing but resistance training for me to notice the increase in shedding. I usually shed about 100 hairs/day when on my current regimen which is Propecia + Duts. When in increased shedding mode I shed 300+ hairs/day. It's very easy for me to notice when this happens because suddenly there's hair everywhere (desk, pillow, kitchen counter), it's not like I'm obsessively rubbing my head over the sink every day to count the fallen.
This never happens if I consistently do cardio. I tested this hypothesis multiple times purposefully not doing any aerobics for a month or more to see if the shed would stop. It never stopped until I did two or three cardio sessions…
I tried to give it some alternative explanations, but none of them really worked. For example, I thought maybe I was showering more frequency when doing cardio and that's why it didn't look like I was shedding so much – that turned out not to be the case. I thought maybe it was a seasonal thing, but everything I observed remained consistent year-round. I'd really appreciate any alternative explanation if you can think of any. The frequent cardio I feel I have to do to slow my hairloss is really getting in the way of what I want to achieve when going in the gym.​

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Thanks ​

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were you on finasteride all that period?

Not at first. The very first time I noticed I was shedding was after I first started training at age 21. Suddenly my desk was full of hair, and I had hair sticking to my hand whenever I passed it through my hair. I've never even thought about male pattern baldness then, I thought I was shedding because I was perspiring more than usual (it was summer and the new dorm-room I was living in back then had no AC). I was consistently shedding more hair though, and after about six month I started noticing my temples were getting larger and my crown began showing a little bit. I was the crown that finally made me think of male pattern baldness. I panicked, started reading everything I could about hairloss and went on propecia a few weeks later. The cardio/resistance thing is something I concluded after about a year on propecia.​