androgenic alopecia

  1. haidut

    Oral vitamin D3 may treat steroid-driven hair loss

    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...
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    • alopecia androgenic alopecia baldness cholecalciferol fphl hair loss vitamin d vitamin d3
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  2. RenaissanceMan

    Improvement in scalp hair growth in androgen-deficient women treated with testosterone

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380548/ RL Glaser, C Dimitrakakis,* and AG Messenger† Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Background Androgens are thought to have an adverse...
  3. haidut

    Topical DHT therapy promotes hair growth

    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...
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    • alopecia androgen androgenic alopecia balding baldness dht hair loss
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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