Do you work out?

If so creatine is supposed to help people push themselves harder and thus build more muscle. As a side-effect of intense exercises you'll create more testosterone. Increased testosterone leads to balding.

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noisy_boy an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Sometimes when I see muscular guy with a head full of hair, I wonder what is counteracting that increased testosterone.

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vkazanov an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Sometimes people just have good hair and spend a lot of time in the gym.

Even early 90s famous era mass monsters were not all bald.

Baldness is known to be related to a bunch of things: testosterone levels, something to do with blood delivery to the scalp, deeper genetic factors.

Surprsingly, for some of the cases scalp massage is known to help.

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stefs an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

increased testosterone from working out is probably around 10-30% long time, which is a far lower variance than natural level variance in healthy adults. i think i heard from several (claimed natural) strength and bodybuilding athletes that their total testosterone is at the lower end of the scale.

that said, natural free test levels are at a fraction of what enhanced pro bodybuilders tend to supplement, and there are mass monsters with hair. cutler, yates, ferrigno and golden era bodybuilders like schwarzenegger, zane, columbu all had full heads of hair.

	▲	vkazanov 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, wanted to point this out. I have mid-range natural test levels, more than my dad, and don't have any signs of balding. My dad lost half of his hair by the time i was born. Steroid consumers have al least ten times my leves, and while this is a factor indeed, in is not necessarily decisive.

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amelius an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not what you want to hear, but genes, probably ...

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AngryData an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah I think that is the biggest factor. I got family members that are built like brick shithouse from a life since childhood of physical labor that still have their hair into their 70s, there is no way they weren't maintaining high levels of testosterone their entire life but it didn't seem to matter.

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globular-toast an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Probably. Money seems to help too, though. A few Hollywood actors have miraculously reversed their male pattern baldness.

	▲	Auracle an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hair transplants are probably affordable enough for 90% of people on HN.
	▲	larrywright an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Along with at least one tech billionaire.

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Taek an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably some combination of Minoxidil, Finastride, PRP injections, and hair transplants.

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mohamedkoubaa an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Scalp massages. No seriously

	▲	maiti_ma 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What kind of massages? I'm curious of this really works.

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appplication an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s not increased testosterone in general that causes balding, it’s increased concentrations/sensitivity of testosterone byproducts in the hair follicles. There is no correlation between testosterone itself and baldness.

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vkazanov an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The effect of creatine is measurable but in no way is related to balding.

Using steroids does have the effect. And a bunch of others, most of them unhealthy.

These things might look correlated as steroid ppl often consume creatine as well as some other things.