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idleplant a day ago

> Obesity was also not controlled for, which is known to be strongly correlated with low testosterone.

adam_arthur a day ago | parent | next [-]

Testosterone is directly causally inverse to bodyfat in men (once above some very low baseline)

Fat directly converts testosterone to Estrogen via a process called aromatization.

Personally my Testosterone close to doubled when going from 25% bodyfat to 13%. I get blood tests regularly and can see the levels fluctuate pretty closely with fat levels

moffkalast a day ago | parent [-]

My takeaway from this is that obesity... is the cure for baldness? xd

vinyl7 a day ago | parent [-]

Baldness is caused by dht

cromka a day ago | parent [-]

Which is a byproduct of testosterone, so...

dumberquestions a day ago | parent [-]

Even if more testosterone means more DHT, most of the variability in hair loss is explained by differences in DHT sensitivity levels.

moffkalast 20 hours ago | parent [-]

It would explain why fat people are more often than not bald anyway and why Styropyro has the most hair I've ever seen on a person regardless of his condition.

idleplant a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the past decade, research suggests that testosterone levels have actually gone up[1].

[1]https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/why-are-testosterone-levels-risin...

tokai a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Really makes the study completely pointless when the last 50 years has also seen the rise of the global obesity epidemic.