If DHT was used in regrowing body hair, then it wouldn't reach the scalp?

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adilahmed900

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recently was thinking about something. I have a lot of hair on my legs and arms and some on my chest. My dad has no hair on his body and went bald. My moms brothers have no hair on their bodies and they too went bald.

I am 18, I know I am gonna lose hair. I don't know if it will happen now or its already. I can't tell yet, i am paranoid though.

So i was thinking, if DHT causes body hair and I am too hairy, if I shave the hair on the body, then the DHT is used to regrow that right? That means it gets used up in that and avoids going to the scalp where it then causes hairloss?

But if testosterone causes body hair and not DHT then i guess this doesnt work
 
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listen ... as soon as you think you feel your hair thinning get on finasteride...you're only 18 and you can deal with being on finasteride for a few years -- there will be something to completely halt hairloss by the time your 25, so just hold on to what you have..being on finasteride for a few years won't be harmful
 
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Sparx4444 said:
listen ... as soon as you think you feel your hair thinning get on finasteride...you're only 18 and you can deal with being on finasteride for a few years -- there will be something to completely halt hairloss by the time your 25, so just hold on to what you have..being on finasteride for a few years won't be harmful
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I agree with spark, stick with finasteride, the earlier the better. If you start thinning in the crown the use rogaine but don't try anything else except maybe nizoral. You have a long way and you are one of the lucky ones who has a light on the end of tunnel.
 
Armando Jose

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Value the pro and con wit finas,
it is easy say that "being on finasteride for a few years won't be harmful"
he is only 18 years old ....
 
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clayton said:
body hair is dead tissue
shaving it would not change anything concerning your hormone level anyway
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what hes saying is that since we ve shaved our body hair and now the androgen receptors will be more active there relative to the scalp,(body hair grows upto a particular length and then stops, you cut it, dht goes back to work there). Therefore now maybe all the phucking dht in your scalp will go down there.(so we are not talking about alteration of hormone level)

i know its kinda like bro science :p, but imo it makes some sense. TRUE OR NOT, who knows.
 
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isishearmyplea

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okay. . . it d be really nice of you tell me about the molecular mechanism , or at least link it. in the meantime i ll also try to find it by myself, thanks!
 
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Dalton said:
And how the hell does it know the hair has been cut?? Hair is dead anyway...yea some serious bro science.
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well my theory(if i maybe audacious enough to call it one) was that body hair grows upto a certain length, you cut it, it starts to grow so maybe the androgen receptors are more active there now( as DHT is responsible for your body hair). . .but there is a 99.99% probability that its bogus as it is based on my internet research in the last few months.

and now i see that red dot beneath my username. . . SUPERB!
 
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I am not an expert but I dont think you really understand how any of it at a basic level works. DHT is circulating in your blood stream and produced locally at different places in your body. The androgen receptors are deep under the skin where hairs grow you cant influence them at all by cutting hair at the surface. No one even knows what DHT does I think its a little more complicated then just causing hair growth and other factors like T among others are involved. Once DHT triggers hair to start growing you might be able to remove DHT and the hair will still grow back without it. Your way over simplifying how complicated it is. Its way way more complex then just DHT
 
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yes sir i know, thats why i said there is a high probability that it is all bogus. Indeed it is complex, but your saying that it way more complex than JUST DHT implies that dht is a minor piece of the puzzle, whereas it is one if the major pieces that we have unravelled. Thanks for chiming in and the info. have a good day. :)
 
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BTW, The important DHT for hair is synthesized in the pilosevaceosu unit, DHT circulating have a minor role.
 
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what OP is describing is based on the myth that hair, body hair or scalp hair grows thicker when shaved. its not true, it just looks thicker because the hairs are thicker at the base, so obviously when u cut them at the base, there is more black (or other colour) surface area, because of bigger diameter hair shafts, because again, they are larger at the base.
 
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Getting sides depends on various factors, not just on supressed level of DHT. It takes some time for body to produce more new 5ard enzymes in skin cells, testicles and so. 1 mg dose or more neutralizes certain percent of 5ard, but I suppose it doesn't achieve its full potential because of half-life time, after which finasteride become degraded. That's common effect in all medical drugs. It takes a while for active drug ingredients and molecules to spread within whole body (intra and extra cellular tissue). So, 0.25 mg works the same way but in a slower rate. But important part is that finasteride "attacks“ other substrates and enzymes (not just II 5-alpha-reductase). And for finasteride to be effective it is important to inhibit specific enzyme 5ard-II but it would be perfect for drug to inhibit only 5ard, not other molecules and substances.

Maybe finasteride molecules bind / adhere to other enzymes, substrates or so, is there any study to confirm that ?
 
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