Weightlifting and Baldness

[Oceano]

Squats and other heavy, compound movements can raise free testosterone levels slightly I believe, so I suppose this could translate into maybe an extra hair falling out every four years. What I am trying to say is that I really don't thikn you need to worry about it.

So if in addition to increasing free testosterone with weights you eat a highly anabolic diet wouldn't this mean a lot of free testosterone left over to convert to DHT and cause baldness?

 

[Cynical Simian]

This is ridiculous. Unless, as mentioned in the first reply, a "highly anabolic diet" includes various steroids, the magnitude of any increase in T as the result of weight training or a high-fat diet is not going to be large enough to cause any additional DHT conversion to be a concern.

Your high cortisol levels while worrying about whether weight training will make you bald are probably more likely to cause accelerated hair loss than weight training itself.

 

[Oceano]

Your high cortisol levels while worrying about whether weight training will make you bald are probably more likely to cause accelerated hair loss than weight training itself.

Can doing intense weights every day and eating an all protein diet release cortisol?

What is the effect of cortisol on hair?

 

[Cynical Simian]

lol, this is like a jkurz thread. You get a nearly unanimous response that your concerns are unwarranted but only pay attention to the parts that support your preconceptions.

 

[Oceano]

lol, this is like a jkurz thread. You get a nearly unanimous response that your concerns are unwarranted but only pay attention to the parts that support your preconceptions.

that because I've had a personal experience with it.

last year i went on an all-protein diet, and trained for an hour and a half every day

hair minaturized on the crown

I went back to a normal diet and stopped weights and hair stopped miniaturizing.

 

[ZGzaZ]

that because I've had a personal experience with it.

last year i went on an all-protein diet, and trained for an hour and a half every day

hair minaturized on the crown

I went back to a normal diet and stopped weights and hair stopped miniaturizing.

Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing, nobody on here would ever think of going on an "All protein diet", or for training for an hour and a half every day. That's just dumb.

 

[Cynical Simian]

Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing, nobody on here would ever think of going on an "All protein diet", or for training for an hour and a half every day. That's just dumb.

Exactly. If that's what you were doing, I can guarantee that high natural test production was not a problem during that time period. Chronically elevated cortisol from overtraining is another matter (do some legwork on Google or PubMed rather than asking to be spoon-fed).

 

[Oceano]

Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing, nobody on here would ever think of going on an "All protein diet", or for training for an hour and a half every day. That's just dumb.

Well the all protein diet was to cut fat off.

Protein is the slowest releasing form of energy. Guess what? it worked, I ripped up.

I didn't know about how long to train for I eventually cut it down to an hour. I realize now it was dumb.

But what I don't understand is how the miniaturization of hair came about.

 

[Nathan]

So if in addition to increasing free testosterone with weights you eat a highly anabolic diet wouldn't this mean a lot of free testosterone left over to convert to DHT and cause baldness?

No. You took what I wrote and tried to extract something that could agree with the original topic of this thread. If you hair falls out and you are not using steroids, it had nothing to do with lifting weights is my guess.

 

[ZGzaZ]

Well the all protein diet was to cut fat off.

Protein is the slowest releasing form of energy. Guess what? it worked, I ripped up.
I didn't know about how long to train for I eventually cut it down to an hour. I realize now it was dumb.

But what I don't understand is how the miniaturization of hair came about.

No, you didnt.