wavelength123
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With respect to castration, I think the fundamental thing that Danny Roddy contributed in his original book Hair like a fox is the understanding that castrates also have typically very low serotonin, prolactin and estrogen. I haven't read the book in about a year, but I think I will read it again tonight.
His thinking has progressed a lot since then, and he knows a lot more, but it's always impressive to see how solid and how well that book has held up since 2013. He doesn't get enough credit for his solid research work. Back then there was nobody who was thinking about hair loss the way he did.
well I’m not impressed by his real world results and I distrust anyone who thinks that the androgen theory is just a big pharma conspiracy. The weight of the evidence is on the side of all receptors being over activated, of which AR seems to be the most critical, alongside key enzymes going bonkers such as 5ar. Which does explain why men bald somewhat more than women, why ARKO mice don’t go bald when exposed to DHT, and so on. Whether insulin or igf1 or cortisol or adrenaline or serotonin or prolactin or xenoestrogens or PUFAs are (Part of) the root cause of the hypoxia-apoptosis combo is to be debated yet the end point remains fairly in favor of big bad pharma guys and the best regrowth on r/tressless comes from guys using the “big 3” and eating reasonably well... sometimes. Mostly they dgaf tho.
examples:
Pretty incredible progress after 22 months of fin and min, (1x per day use,) plus focus on protein macros and general good eating habits. Front hairline has always been fairly high, mostly experienced thinning in the back. Age 30 now, 28 in before pictures. Wish I had started sooner! : tressless
Finasteride and Minoxidil 2 MONTH update. From Norwood 3 Back To My Juvenile Hairline! : tressless
of course, those are cherry picked. But what else beside FUE transplants yields this kind of progress?
What Roddy did, and what most people do, is run with an idea and line up all the facts that side with it. Unfortunately, real life big pharma results tend to conflict with those beautiful ideas, and yelling Follow the Monies doesn’t change those facts much.
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