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So are men with higher DHT levels in their system more susceptible to hair loss?
Good question, and one that we get asked a lot.
In short, the answer is no.
DHT levels in the blood are not related to hair loss. You can have higher than average DHT and have no hair loss whatsoever.
On the other hand, you can have low DHT levels and be completely bald before you’re 30.
Now, when the link between DHT and hair loss was fist discovered, this was one of the first things scientists looked at.
If we take a bunch of balding guys and compare them to healthy men, will we see a difference in systemic DHT levels?
The results were disappointing.
Some studies found no relation.
Others found a correlation between baldness and other hormones, like testosterone, but not DHT.
And there was one study out of Korea that found a relationship between hair loss and both DHT, as well as testosterone.
But bear in mind, these studies are based on statistical probability distributions.
Meaning if you run a study many times and start testing for all sorts of correlations, you will find some - just by chance. Even if there is nothing really there.
Today, nobody will test your blood DHT levels if you’re suffering from male pattern baldness.
Or to predict if you’re likely to go bald.
It’s a simplistic idea, and it died a long time ago.
Where DHT levels do have a relation with hair loss is in the extremes.
In cases that are quote “not normal”.
A good case in point is how we initially discovered DHT is linked to baldness.
This was in the 1970s, when researchers discovered some villagers in the Dominican republic that suffered from a rare genetic mutation.
The mutation left them with no active DHT in their body.
And they never went bald. Among many other interesting findings.
Similarly if you’re on finasteride or dutasteride.
You can remove most of the DHT in your system with these drugs, and you will probably stop further hair loss.
On the other hand, if you boost your androgens with anabolic steroids, you will ravage your hair.
So in the extremes, in cases of pathology or of drug use, yes, there is a connection between DHT and baldness. For everyone else, no.
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