Why Is It That If I Stop Propecia or Minoxidil, All the Benefits Go Away?

Just a question about how when someone uses procepia or minoxidil and then stops he loses whatever hair he would have lost if he didn’t use the drugs, why does that happen? does all the DHT that was blocked by the medication get back all at once to take revenge and kill the hairs? or is it something else?

Your explanation, although unscientific, is as good as any explanation I might come up with.

Simply, any hair growth or thickening with minoxidil is a direct result of this medication. It is completely dependent upon the medication for the benefits. Take away the medication and the hair growing side effect goes away with it. Regarding Propecia, this medication has stopped or slowed down the hair loss. Again, like minoxidil, it is holding off the progression of the balding process, so although from a different mechanism of action, the medication must be present. With Propecia, however, I believe that it works on the gene of the hair follicle. As you may know, every cell in the body has telomeres at the end of the DNA which determine cell death timing. Somehow, the hair cell’s death is delayed with the drug. Enough of my rambling and metaphors…