Posts made by MaxVerstappen

@izkrov

Thank you, this is what I was looking for beyond surface level critique of the DHT theory. I’d still like to see if the person pictured from the study kept their hair “in the long run.” Minoxidil treatment can produce a similar effect (we presume by increasing blood flow / growth factor / opening potassium channels) but it’s not “permanent regrowth. I’ve seen many people regrowth their hair with minoxidil but eventually the rare of AA overcomes the positive effect of minoxidil.

@izkrov Blood flow / scalp tension theory was disproven a long time ago when they transplanted balding scalp areas onto someone’s arm and the hair kept miniaturizing. I don’t think that’s specifically what you’re referencing but that seems to be adjacent.

I don’t think DHT is a red herring personally but I respect your in depth response. I’ll look into everything you said.

@Oj_simpson
Cool!
Except…

“androgenetic alopecia can only be cured by DHT blockers”
Correct! Androgenic alopecia is caused by DHT miniaturizing the hair follicle. It’s literally in the name “androgenic.”

“If it’s cured by something else it’s not AA”
Correct! Androgenic alopecia is caused by DHT miniaturizing the hair follicle. Nobody has ever cured / stopped MPB without blocking DHT. Please, I encourage you to prove me wrong with examples, nobody has done it yet.

Any other genius takes?

@zeal Why don’t you post before and after pictures and make me shut up then? Should be easy.

Androgenic alopecia is completely different than losing hair from alopecia areata or telogen effluvium. Completely and utterly different reasons for loss and ways to stop / reverse.

@zeal You simply didn’t have androgenic alopecia / MPB then.

Provide before / after pics

@zeal it’s not bullshit, disrespectfully.

Go ahead, try and stop true MPB without a DHT blocker and report back how that works out for you. Or, show someone who successfully has. I’ve done hundreds of hours of research into this and have yet to find a single individual who reversed or meaningfully stopped MPB without a DHT blocker. In any case where they did it wasn’t MPB in the first place it was a deficiency or something else was fucked up with them that was causing the hair loss, not MPB.

You can spam minoxidil all you want and I’ve seen meaningful reversal without DHT blockers by doing that but that’s only delaying the inevitable and not actually solving the problem.

Please elaborate on why you think it’s “bullshit.” I’m only talking about androgenic alopecia but that should be obvious.

@Chud If it’s androgenic you need to use a DHT blocker or nothing else you do matters.