Your results do look good. Hair is a bit longer, and a kinder lighting in second picture but still obvious your regimen is working great.
As for the steroids,. they can actively increase male pattern baldness but don't have any factor years down the road when one is NOT using them. It would be silly to think otherwise.. The steroids would allow for more aromatization to DHT, but actually when off a cycle the testicular axis would have endogenous production down.. and would actually lessen the effects until the feedback loop recovered and endogenous production normalized. Steroid use nearly 20 years ago has no bearing on hormone reactive hairloss/follicular inactivation today. -- Now if he was still using 'roids.. sure.
Besides, he looks great in the picture , nice build. But it is very 'natural' looking. If you are, or ever were into body building (not the trainer, but others) seriously you would quickly be able to spot a natural build from an anabolic one.
Not to get too much off subject, but it is all too common I have noticed over the years for people to assume a body builder who has worked hard, has relatively good genetics and eats properly who is relatively 'big' to be juicing.. when they worked hard and 'honest' for that build. The competitive 'pro' bodybuilders all use the roids.. this is beyond question and is obvious. Though back on the hair -- I have seen quite a few guys accelerate male pattern baldness with the use of steroids and just assume it was bound to happen like it did anyway. Before I knew anything about male pattern baldness I still assumed it was linked to the steroid use somehow, but now I know the science behind it. These guys were destined to lose hair to some degree at some time anyway, but some of them likely accelerated it by many years.
As for Jas,.. again your pictures look great -- you aren't being OCD about it really.. OCD , imho, are the people who won't take others advice or won't believe what numerous others tell them about their pictures -- and instead insist they are going to complete baldness in the very near future.
You are quite reasonable, and any person male or female generally gets a bit concerned if they notice any level of hair loss , active over shedding, or recession. Only natural -- in your case it is minor, and is probably the result of a very slow process that won't have any real major effect on you anytime soon.. and perhaps never.
Personally, married or not,.. and 35 or 70.. I think I'll still miss my hair. Alot of the younger guys tend to think they won't care when they get older (IE: If I hold onto my hair till 30 I won't care then) -- While some guys genuinely might not give two hoots in their 30's.. I have a feeling most still do.
Age might take a little of the sting off,.. but not completely.
I think if everyone lost their hair at specific ages.. sort of like how everyone ages and can't escape it -- then it wouldn't be such a big deal 'personally' .. as it is ,.. well, expected -- But while over 50 percent of guys do have some level of hairloss.. it isn't this way.
Though I do tend to think we will have an ultimate 'cure' at some point in the future.. but given we have the technology we have now and still nothing really 'phenomenal' to correct male pattern baldness,.. who knows when.
Take care,
