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lener1903

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Hi everybody

Im 23 years old and have been using finasteride since 3 years ago. when i use finasteride, normally i dont have any hairloss problems, but after i started doing body building, my palms, soles and head skin started to get dry and i had an huge hairloss problem.

Then i stopped body building and after i stopped, in 2 months i gained my hairs back. I really wonder why body building makes my palm, sole and head skin get dry and causes huge hairloss?


Note: Sorry for my english. I live in Belgium...
 
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depends are you takeing steroids when you say bodybuilding or any testerone boosting suplements? When you lift your testerone rises so makes sense dht will rise as well. I dont think the dht would do anything significant if on finasteride tho.
 
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come on guys, since when did DHT give dry skin... it's clear he's got something else going on too.

Are you drinking enough water when working out? You need to remember you use up a lot of water which you need to drink in addition to the "normal" daily requirement.

Do you take anything when working out? Creatine? Protein? Both will increase your need for water too...

Going to the gym does cause a small spike in testosterone, but it is short lived after the workout. If on finasteride the boost in DHT would be so ridiculously minimal.
 
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rusty_y2k2 said:
Care to back that up with an actual study?

In the mean time stop talking rubbish...
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well bodybuilders take steroids so its not really rubbish, now it depends on what he means by bodybuilding, usally people that call themselves bodybuilders compete and take steroids, if your just a standard gym goer i wouldn't call your self a bodybuilder. In the case that he is taking steroids of course he is going to bald quicker. Now again I dont know what steroids or supplements your takeing, if your naturally and not takeing anys supplements i doubt its caused by just working out, unless your not getting enuff water and calories to replenish the ones you burn.
 
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rusty_y2k2 said:
come on guys, since when did DHT give dry skin... it's clear he's got something else going on too.
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Yeah thats right. It doesnt happen because of dht. Sometimes when i do long time diets, my palms, soles and head skin get dry and i start to lose my hairs too. Maybe i have vitamine deficiency...
rusty_y2k2 said:
Are you drinking enough water when working out? You need to remember you use up a lot of water which you need to drink in addition to the "normal" daily requirement.
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I didnt think about this before. After now i drink much water and try it...
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Do you take anything when working out? Creatine? Protein? Both will increase your need for water too...
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I'v never used creatine or protein powder. I eat chicken, red meat and egg white.
 
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I have had dry skin my whole life :O. My face used to be covered with a snow-like mask, when I was younger, but now it's under control. Still some white allergic spots, but nothing that horrible. Hands are still fully dry sometimes, but I don't bother to cream them. And Regaine dries my skin too.
 
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Amarant said:
I have had dry skin my whole life :O. My face used to be covered with a snow-like mask, when I was younger, but now it's under control. Still some white allergic spots, but nothing that horrible. Hands are still fully dry sometimes, but I don't bother to cream them. And Regaine dries my skin too.
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In fact dry palms, soles and head skin dont bother me too, but when they get dry i start to lose my hairs and when i stop diet or body building, they stop drying and i stop losing my hairs.

I'm not complaining about drying. My problem is hairloss and always begin with drying palms, soles and head skin due to body building or diet...
 
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Sorry amarant - I can't read that, I can stretch to a little french but that's about it.. lol. And online translators generally suck. Either way It doesn't look like a scientific study, but obviously I can't possibly comment.

I'd suggest also looking at it like this though, even if the two were significantly linked (and please understand I'm not conceeding that they are) working out isn't going to make you bald if you weren't going that way anyway. Who is going to fit the general "social concept" of attractiveness more - the fat/skinny guy with a thinning head of hair, or the muscular toned guy with buzzed/shaved head. Working out is a great way to improve your appearance, improve you confidence and above all keep you healthy.


phish said:
well bodybuilders take steroids so its not really rubbish, now it depends on what he means by bodybuilding, usally people that call themselves bodybuilders compete and take steroids, if your just a standard gym goer i wouldn't call your self a bodybuilder. In the case that he is taking steroids of course he is going to bald quicker. Now again I dont know what steroids or supplements your takeing, if your naturally and not takeing anys supplements i doubt its caused by just working out, unless your not getting enuff water and calories to replenish the ones you burn.
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Some bodybuilders take steroids, some don't. But it's irrelevant because the way you are putting it, as it is the taking steroids that is responsible, not the bodybuilding... so the point stands. Take steroids without going to the gym and you'll lose just as much hair because you're still pumping all that exogenous test or test pre-cursors into your system, but you won't change your body structure much - the body building is a moot point.

Just as an aside, it's a ridiculous stereotype that all bodybuilders all take steroids by the way... I know plenty of big guys who would never touch a test booster let alone pro hormones or steroids. That said pro-circuit bodybuilders (other than the all naturals of course) do all juice... and lots of it, but it's important to be able to distinguish them from the other folk.


Lener - I would look to diet as the first culprit. Make sure you take on board plenty of water as mentioned, and maybe look to make sure you are getting enough essential fatty acids either through diet or additional supplementation. The only reason I asked about whether you had taken creatine was because this will up your water intake requirements even more!

Dry skin though is not a usual reaction to working out in my experience, and it might be worth going to see a dr about to see if they can shed any light on the problem.
 
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when you do bodybuilding you create more adrenaline , the adrenaline will be in your sweat , when you train..
what causes difference in scalp , and it attacks the hair at the root...

also testosteron enhancers or "others" boosts your dht , what also attacks your hair

so with bodybuilding your hair gets attacked from 2 sides...

i know what i'm talking about, i do bodybuilding also , and also from belgium

my regime:
-every day dutasteride 0,5mg
-amioaccids,msm,green thee,selenium,zink
-la biostetique root stimulator + hairloss shampoo (1/week)
-every 2 days after training,washing hair with herbalife shampoo
-every 2 days after washing 15min with x5 hairlaser
-did 25th januari a 2725 grafts hair transplant in istanbul
-2x a day minodixil 5% with added 1mg dutasteride (self-mixed)

(did this all just after the hairtransplant , so at the end of this summer is will have
the final results, for now, its increasing explosif the density)
i making a photo-story every month update..
 
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Adrenaline attacks your follicules? hmm, I've never heard that before... the only reference I can find is here http://www.baldingblog.com/2008/06/26/a ... hair-loss/ where he suggests it to be a non-factor relative to the genetic predisposition for balding.

I'm sorry but I kind of took it as overwhelmingly obvious that taking a test booster or similar will increase testosterone and thus DHT levels. It's what I like to call a no-brainer - I am referring to the actual exercising itself, and I have seen no proof of that being linked to hairloss. The all-round benefits of working out certainly outweigh any concerns I would have in that department anyway.


Infact, according to Dr Rassman on balding blog:

Exercise (working out) does not accelerate male pattern baldness. Genetics cause male pattern baldness. I am sorry for any confusion.
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link http://www.baldingblog.com/2008/07/03/w ... rates-male pattern baldness/
 
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if you use testosteronsupplement , or a testo-booster then you better take fina that it cant go to dht , and a little bit arimidex so it cant go to estrogen....

exercises it self can boost the testoproduction a bit , and with the 5ar you have a little bit more dht also...
 
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