Estrogen Or Testosterone For Thicker Hair?

[neddy2016]

I have heard mixed reports that estrogen helps thicken hair but i noticed others feel high Testosterone actually thickens hair? is this the case? it would explain why alot of these topicals make my hair look thin.

 

[asabovesobelow]

If you castrate yourself, drastically decreasing testosterone levels, and start pumping in exogenous estrogen, you'll undoubtedly regrow lost hair. But it still doesn't mean testosterone is the root cause for balding. In one study, women with thinning hair reported that they regrew hair while being treated with testosterone. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380548/) It could point to an imbalance in, or surrounding, hormones rather than testosterone being the culprit.

 

[neddy2016]

Bump.

 

[Ikarus]

If you castrate yourself, drastically decreasing testosterone levels, and start pumping in exogenous estrogen, you'll undoubtedly regrow lost hair. But it still doesn't mean testosterone is the root cause for balding. In one study, women with thinning hair reported that they regrew hair while being treated with testosterone. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380548/) It could point to an imbalance in, or surrounding, hormones rather than testosterone being the culprit.

Testosterone is the root cause of balding; hair loss within men and women are entirely different situations, which can separate some of the methods to regrow hair. Women who transition into males end up balding severely, which implies that the study you linked is situational to what those women suffer with.

 

[Ikarus]

I have heard mixed reports that estrogen helps thicken hair but i noticed others feel high Testosterone actually thickens hair? is this the case? it would explain why alot of these topicals make my hair look thin.

Testosterone makes the individual strands more coarse, but estrogen leads to the regrowth of lost scalp hairs.

 

[asabovesobelow]

Testosterone is the root cause of balding; hair loss within men and women are entirely different situations, which can separate some of the methods to regrow hair. Women who transition into males end up balding severely, which implies that the study you linked is situational to what those women suffer with.

Another factor or factors are the root cause. There's plenty of evidence for this by looking at, for example, bodybuilders on steroids. Some of them bald, but some don't even when they're on colossal doses. Yet, when they age, they end up balding regardless. Some of the all-time top names in bodybuilding are evidence for this phenomenom.

 

[Ikarus]

Another factor or factors are the root cause. There's plenty of evidence for this by looking at, for example, bodybuilders on steroids. Some of them bald, but some don't even when they're on colossal doses. Yet, when they age, they end up balding regardless. Some of the all-time top names in bodybuilding are evidence for this phenomenom.

That’s not evidence, a sensitivity to the effects of androgens depends on your own body, it’s different for all of us. If you castrated all of those men instead of giving them testosterone injections, none of them would have went bald.

 

[asabovesobelow]

That’s not evidence, a sensitivity to the effects of androgens depends on your own body, it’s different for all of us. If you castrated all of those men instead of giving them testosterone injections, none of them would have went bald.

Yes, the androgen sensitivty is the evidence. But it's just that, an observation. So like I said, at one point you can have massive tolerance while pumping in steroids. A short time afterwards you can halt your intake and go bald regardless. The sensitivity being there just means androgens aren't the root cause anyways.

 

[Ikarus]

Yes, the androgen sensitivty is the evidence. But it's just that, an observation. So like I said, at one point you can have massive tolerance while pumping in steroids. A short time afterwards you can halt your intake and go bald regardless. The sensitivity being there just means androgens aren't the root cause anyways.

It’s not even an observation, it’s a fact. If those who were on steroids, but didn’t go bald, yet went bald after not using it, they most likely just had the genetics of balding nonetheless and followed the usual pattern.

 

[asabovesobelow]

It’s not even an observation, it’s a fact. If those who were on steroids, but didn’t go bald, yet went bald after not using it, they most likely just had the genetics of balding nonetheless and followed the usual pattern.

I just said the same thing? Observation, fact, truth or whatever. The mechanisms we've described are the same.