But, You Said Testosterone Can Cause Hair Loss…

In one of your responses, you state that testosterone can precipitate the hairloss gene’s expression and that testosterone itself can cause hair loss. Where does this information come from? Is this an opinion or documented information? Everything I can find indicates DHT as the problem source. If it is testosterone, why would balding not occur in teenage years as this is primetime for testosterone production?

I will attempt to correct any confusion that I may have caused:

DHT is a by-product of testosterone which occurs as the liver breaks down testosterone into DHT.

Thus, having more testosterone will produce more DHT. DHT is responsible for genetic male pattern balding (MPB) or androgenic alopecia. In other words, if you do NOT have the gene (or genes) for MPB you can have all the DHT in the world and it will not cause balding. Moreover, teenagers with “primetime” testosterone production may have “primetime” DHT, but if their genes are not programmed for hair loss to start at that age, they would not have hair loss. It is definitely in the genes, but it also has to do with timing!