Body Hair Question...

[SarcasticHorse]

I was reading some articles about DHT and realized that while it destroys the hair on our head, it causes other body hair growth.

Now I'm personally a hairy little gorilla...only 22 and got vines creepin' over the shoulders and stuff. I was one of those kids who started shaving in 6th grade and was growing chest hair by 15. Started losing my hair by 18-19.

My question is...does this mean that my body produces insane amounts of DHT, relative to the less hairy individuals?

If so, does that mean that propecia is less likely to be effective?

 

[cook'n'milkies]

I too am perplexed by the body hair/hair loss relationship. It seems like many of the balding men I see are quite hairy. I'm the exact opposite: A lily skinned white boy with almost NO body hair. I can't even really grow much facial hair even though I'm 24, yet I'm diffusing up top rather badly.

 

[Guest]

I don't think it has anything to do with that.

I have almost no body hair and I have male pattern baldness since I was 18 years old. I am 25 now.

But your second question is very interesting.

 

[noorur]

i got on dutasteride

it will hopefully reduce my body hair and give me good regrowth on my scalp.

2 for 1, lol

 

[The Gardener]

Yep. That pretty much says it all.

 

[arcillis]

yea, i believe what you say is correct......i myself am a lil hairy beast myself......cuz i started losing my hair around when i was 16(i am 18 now), and i started to get hairy at the same time.....oh well.........isn't it bad enough that we are getting bald, but god had to make us hair too......so sad dude

 

[michael barry]

We KNOW that DHT grows body hair, but it has a negative effect on dermal papilla, epithelial cells of genetically predisposed follicles on the scalp. Some follicles on the backs and sides of the head seem unaffected by this. Scientists researching stem cells from hairs have discovered that follicles that are alkaline phostphatase positive are the ones that they can culture and induce new hair from.

Paradoxically, the "tuft" of hair many balding men keep in the front and center of their heads sometimes are unaffected when testosterone and its derivatives are added to it, while temple hair cells wither when the same androgen hormones are added.


You guys have all noticed that many "hairy bodied" men also suffer baldness proboably because they obviously have much alpha five reductase enzyme making DHT in the skin.

HOWEVER< there are exceptions. Ive seen men, (and have an uncle like this) who have MUCH body hair, back hair etc.......and FULL heads of hair. Ive also seen men who have hardly any body, facial hair, and are still balding. I work with a balding Asian man who can hardly even grow a beard. Just goes to show ya' that the genetically predisposed response to androgens is a personal matter.

 

[Deaner]

I only have leg hair. I'm balding. It sucks.