Castration To Treat Hair Loss

Hello Dr. Rassman,

In one of the rare on-topic posts to the Usenet group alt.baldspot, someone cited a study from the U. of Washington investigating, among various things, a chemical called acyline:

https://groups.google.com/group/alt.baldspot/msg/d2a641313cf28285

They suggest that it can be used as an agent to induce medical castration (suppressing testosterone production?)

I imagine you’d have a rough time finding a doctor who’d prescribe any such thing, but in theory, would such treatment stop balding cold, more completely than would a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor? If I’ve gotten the processes down properly, DHT production is not possible in the absence of testosterone.

I imagine it’d also completely eliminate one’s libido as well. Maybe I’m nuts to think it, but I doubt that’d bother me. It’s not been of much use to me anyway, but losing my hair is going to pretty quickly kill off whatever hope remains for the future.

Well, thanks for reading. The accolades on the site from your readers are well deserved.

Castration of a male will stop the balding process. What hair loss that happened prior to the castration will not reverse. So if you lost all of your frontal hair and are starting to lose the crown hair, being castrated (medically or surgically) will not reverse the frontal hair loss, but will probably halt the hair loss in the crown. Sounds like you are depressed. You might seek help.