Do you work out?
If so creatine is supposed to help people push themselves harder and thus build more muscle. As a side-effect of intense exercises you'll create more testosterone. Increased testosterone leads to balding.
Do you work out?
If so creatine is supposed to help people push themselves harder and thus build more muscle. As a side-effect of intense exercises you'll create more testosterone. Increased testosterone leads to balding.
Sometimes when I see muscular guy with a head full of hair, I wonder what is counteracting that increased testosterone.
Sometimes people just have good hair and spend a lot of time in the gym.
Even early 90s famous era mass monsters were not all bald.
Baldness is known to be related to a bunch of things: testosterone levels, something to do with blood delivery to the scalp, deeper genetic factors.
Surprsingly, for some of the cases scalp massage is known to help.
Arnold still has a full head of hair for example.
Not what you want to hear, but genes, probably ...
Yeah I think that is the biggest factor. I got family members that are built like brick shithouse from a life since childhood of physical labor that still have their hair into their 70s, there is no way they weren't maintaining high levels of testosterone their entire life but it didn't seem to matter.
Probably. Money seems to help too, though. A few Hollywood actors have miraculously reversed their male pattern baldness.
Hair transplants are probably affordable enough for 90% of people on HN.
Along with at least one tech billionaire.
increased testosterone from working out is probably around 10-30% long time, which is a far lower variance than natural level variance in healthy adults. i think i heard from several (claimed natural) strength and bodybuilding athletes that their total testosterone is at the lower end of the scale.
that said, natural free test levels are at a fraction of what enhanced pro bodybuilders tend to supplement, and there are mass monsters with hair. cutler, yates, ferrigno and golden era bodybuilders like schwarzenegger, zane, columbu all had full heads of hair.
Yeah, wanted to point this out. I have mid-range natural test levels, more than my dad, and don't have any signs of balding. My dad lost half of his hair by the time i was born.
Steroid consumers have al least ten times my leves, and while this is a factor indeed, in is not necessarily decisive.
Probably some combination of Minoxidil, Finastride, PRP injections, and hair transplants.
Scalp massages. No seriously
What kind of massages? I'm curious of this really works.
Not sure about the "kind", but minoxidil works by increasing blood flow to hair follicles. So if massages can have a similar effect, I don't see why it couldn't help.
I've also read that maybe massaging the muscles around the scalp to loosen it might help. E.g., a scalp that's too tight can have detrimental effects on the hair follicles.
That being said, I don't know what kind of evidence there is to support either of those things. Seems like a safe enough thing to try though.
It’s not increased testosterone in general that causes balding, it’s increased concentrations/sensitivity of testosterone byproducts in the hair follicles. There is no correlation between testosterone itself and baldness.
The effect of creatine is measurable but in no way is related to balding.
Using steroids does have the effect. And a bunch of others, most of them unhealthy.
These things might look correlated as steroid ppl often consume creatine as well as some other things.