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No, I don’t recommend DHT testing. Finasteride is a competitive inhibitor to DHT at the 5 alpha reductase level. Simply put: competitive inhibition means that finasteride competes with DHT for the receptor that triggers hair loss. If the finasteride occupies the receptor, than DHT can’t cause the hair loss. Finasteride is about 75% effective at competitive inhibition.

Hello,

I am a 23 year old Sikh Male. I have always had long hair my whole life. And I have been suffering from either traction alopecia or eczema on my head but I am not sure what it is. I am seeing my doctor soon to diagnose it. My doctor has given me 2 different types of shampoo and a liquid clear acid application that burns the skin after I shower. And nothing works, I’ve had this for nearly 10 years now. Any suggestions? I have tried everything BUT wear my hair out in the open and or cut it. Cutting the hair wouldn’t be a great loss for me considering that I am not religious. But do you think that would help? I also work out at the gym and do physical activities through out the day so I am always sweating. So my head really never gets air. Please get back to me, I really need to make a decision. Thanks

The common cause of hair loss in Sikh men is traction alopecia from the use of the turban, which pulls on the side and frontal hair. The turban is tightly applied to the head and the traction of it against the skin causes traction alopecia. If you have hair loss on the front and the sides above your ear, then that should be the diagnosis.

Treatment is often best with hair transplants. If you are losing hair elsewhere, your doctor should be able to map out your scalp for miniaturization to determine if you have genetic hair loss.

I have experienced hairloss in all of those same areas I have been losing since starting finasteride. Sexual function has also improved since starting finasteride. How common is this?

Some people report hair loss when they start finasteride and this usually subsides in a couple of months, getting improvement afterward. The increase in sexual drive is now increasingly reported by many postings.

The relationship between young men who smoke show changes in the Y Chromosome suggesting a causal relationship between the appearance of earlier lung cancer in young men than comparable men of the same age. Lung cancer has been known to have a higher in men than women, so this relationship is important. The changes can be measured in the red blood cells of smoking men. This article was published in the prestigious journal Science.

Article: J.P. Dumanski et al., “Smoking is associated with mosaic loss of chromosome Y,” Science, doi:10.1126/science.1262092, 2014.

Finasteride usually prevents shock loss which is a loss of native hair that is in the process of miniaturizing. The older you are, the less the risk. Men in their 20s are at the greatest risk, less in their 30s and so on. The decision to take finasteride is a decision to protect native hair.

I have been reading and seeing some SMP done on bald/balding men. So it is basically a hair tattoo. To be honest, in my opinion, it doesn´t look that different than a bald head. It says that it should resemble a buzzcut, or a really short hairstyle visually. But it sounds like some bullshit too me. It is also pretty expensive. For that price, I would rather pay a little more and get a hair transplant in the future when I get older. Have any of you heard about it/try it? What is your opinions? 🙂

SMP is a good solution for some people who can accept a shaved head for rest of their life, but for others, not as good a choice as a hair transplant. Of course, you can start with SMP and if you decide at some point in the future to get a hair transplant , that is an option. The best thing about SMP (a name we coined and published) is that you don’t have to worry about progressive balding. If you get a hair transplant when you have a Class 3 pattern and then progress to a Class 6 pattern, with SMP, you don’t have to do it again while with a hair transplant, you will have to transplant the new bald areas. See our site: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/

SMP is also a great solution for people with thinning hair as it makes it look fuller because the contrast between skin and hair color can be made closer to each other

So I’ve been on fin for about a week and a half now. For the first week I noticed that the only side effect I experienced was a lack of morning wood. I was slightly concerned about this but I still used fin because it wasn’t a big deal to me. I think it’s subsided, because now I get morning wood again but there’s a few sides I didn’t expect. I feel like my libido has exponentially increased and the morning wood I experience is much more intense than it used to be. Is this normal? Will it subside eventually?

I have seen men who claimed a reduced sex drive in the first few weeks and found that this symptom disappeared within a month.