Propecia generally impacts only 70% of the DHT by a process called competitive inhibition. This means that the drug competes with DHT at its receptor site. We really do not know much more about this competitive process, but we know that some people get great responses from the drug at the 1mg dose, while others […]
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Transitioning from a juvenile hairline to a mature hairline is not balding. Sometimes the hair in the zone between the mature hairline and the juvenile hairline will fall out and die quickly. This process is called apoptosis. Get a good doctor to examine you. The diagnosis is not that difficult in the hands of an […]
My educated guess is that once the hair loss starts you cannot completely stop the process even with castration for the hair that is scheduled to be lost (i.e. apoptosis). I could be way off base, though. I’m not going to suggest castration to prove it one way or the other.
Good thought, but finasteride does not block 100% of DHT… and DHT may not be the only factor here. More importantly, as much as your logic may seem true or make sense, in the real world catch-up hair loss from cessation of finasteride does not work that way based on many patients we have observed. […]
We do not know the answer to this question. One would expect that the auto-cloned hair would be resistant to DHT and grow on just like the donor hair normally does. Apoptosis (cell death) is programmed in the balding hair follicle, but not in the hairs found in the donor area… but still, no one […]
I do not believe so. I would say that the mature hairline develops as the hairs from the original juvenile hairline reach the end of their growth cycle (developing apoptosis). It’s like asking theoretically if you can turn back time.
The hairline is less sensitive to DHT blocking, but I don’t know if it is more sensitive to testosterone. The probability is that frontal hair experiences apoptosis (cell death) at an earlier age than the hair in the crown in most people. In regard to the story you read that was posted about Propecia, that […]
The anagen, catagen, and telogen phases are the well known life cycle of any hair. I think it is even taught in high school biology. For human scalp hair, the anagen (growth) cycle can last several years. This is followed by the resting phase (catagen/telogen), lasting several weeks to months. The length of time of […]
Telogen effluvium usually reverses by itself as the hair moves from telogen to anagen (see hair cycle info). This cycle varies between people, but usually the telogen phase lasts 3-7 months. Genetically impacted hair also cycles, so the answer to your question is that the finer hairs that are miniaturized will cycle and return, unless […]
There is a wide audience of young men (over a million) who have taken Propecia and we know that in the very young man with active miniaturization, the process may be reversed. This occurs mostly in young men in their 20s. I would guess that if we castrated 1 million men who are balding in […]
DHT does not stay in the hair follicle for a long time, as the body will metabolize it. If you were to stop taking your daily Propecia (finasteride 1mg) and took testosterone at about the same time, I expect that more hair loss will occur. Each genetically impacted hair follicle has a number of hair […]
I doubt that the diabetes is causing your neck hair loss. I have seen men over the years (in airports, on the streets, in shopping centers, etc) who have lost just their neck hair and not their scalp hair, so I believe that this is a genetic trait in these men. I suspect that the […]
If you have a maturing hairline, I would not expect to see miniaturization from the highest wrinkle of the furrowed brow. The leading edge of a maturing hairline, as a rule, does not show miniaturization. From the few cases I can reference (nephew and two of my sons), they lost their juvenile hairlines without miniaturization […]
Early balding should show signs of miniaturization if your hair loss is genetic. Either see a doctor or take charge of your diagnosis by mapping your scalp. The choice is yours. People with asymmetrical hairlines will develop maturing hairlines that may even out the symmetry (or they may not). Balding occurs in those with the […]
Assuming that the castration was complete, there at least two explanations that come to mind: He had testosterone production from non-testicular sources. We known that women have testosterone and when they lose their estrogen support at menopause, they developing balding. This may show the phenomenon called apoptosis (a cell that has reached the end of […]