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A very interesting study, which demonstrates that a relatively low (5,000 IU) oral daily dose of vitamin D3 for 6 months, may be able to treat gender-specific (driven by steroids) hair loss. Now, the study participants were all female, with female-pattern hair loss (FPHL), however the findings...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380548/
RL Glaser, C Dimitrakakis,* and AG Messenger†
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Abstract
Background
Androgens are thought to have an adverse...
Despite mentioning it in another post on testosterone (T) treatment for hair loss, I thought that this study deserves its own post, just because its findings are so contradictory to the perennial dogma of "androgenic alopecia" - i.e. that androgens, and especially DHT, cause the male-pattern...