Re:Rapamycin: The unlucky history of the most powerful anti-...
by Parmenidea on Monday May 08, 2023 @06:23PM
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Do you give any credence to the reports that creatine can cause hair loss? It seems like one study found a link, but nobody has tried to directly replicate it since. Anecdotally, Reddit is filled with stories of people claiming it caused hair loss, though I’m sure there are a ton of confounding variables.
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Re:Rapamycin: The unlucky history of the most powerful anti-...
by chpatrick on Monday May 08, 2023 @08:08PM
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I think people will always seek dubious explanations for why they're balding apart from "bad luck" and "you're old".
Re:Rapamycin: The unlucky history of the most powerful anti-...
by tysam_and on Monday May 08, 2023 @10:38PM
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Well, people who use creatine also have a greater chance of having dihydrotestosterone, if I recall correctly....
Honestly hard to say, because that doesn't immediately "disprove" it either....
Re:Rapamycin: The unlucky history of the most powerful anti-...
by yeeeloit on Monday May 08, 2023 @11:53PM
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Seems to be one of those topics... but anyway this study from 2009 found that creatine did in fact increased DHT.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19741313/
To be clear, no one is arguing that Creatine causes hairloss, simply that it exacerbates hairloss in people with so called androgenetic alopecia.
I recall a study that was set to try and replicate these results, but I worry that it was impacted by COVID. If anyone else can find it, I'd be very interested to see it.