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Creatine Myths: Hair Loss, Bloating, Dosing, and More

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The Effects of DHT on Hair Loss

Most of the DHT in your blood is generated in peripheral tissues that didn't end up getting metabolized in those tissues. circulating DHT isn't what causes baldness. It seems to primarily be a matter of DHT conversion in the hair follicles themselves. And so systemic levels of DHT are typically not particularly informative of anything. So when we're talking about effects on baldness, we are interested about kind of DHT action and metabolism in the scalp itself.

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