Can Testosterone Replacement Therapy, Like Testosterone Gel, Cause Hair Loss?
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If you were by now genetically liable to lose your hair (i.e. if your mom’s side has men [&/or women] with androgenic alopecia), testosterone of any foundation (outside the body or genuinely bent) can say to hair loss. It isn’t testosterone itself, but dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which testosterone may convert into. In evaluation to injections, testosterone gel has an primarily high rate of converting to DHT due to an bounty of DHT converting enzymes (5 alpha reductase) in the skin.
But, hair loss can have multiple hormonal causes (adrenaline, hypothyroidism, etc.) & non-hormonal causes. Even DHT’s role is intricate, as it *may* help the immune system in treating hair follicles on the scalp as foreigners, thereby causing hair loss as an autoimmune retort. This is only one means of hair loss.













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February 9th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Yes!