Testosterone gel and hairloss

Thierry Hertoghe, M.D., a colleague who does a lot of teaching on hormone replacement therapy, who wrote a book, The Hormone Handbook, which should be a required book in anyone's collection, told me how he keeps his hair thick and growing by applying testosterone gel onto his forehad and scalp, rather than on his arms. He uses Finasteride to block conversion of the testosterone to DHT - which would promote male pattern hair loss. His idea is that testosterone promotes male hair growth, though DHT does not. He noted how years ago, his hair was thinning, but now it is a very full head of hair since he used this technique.

This isn't something I would generally try on someone who has a good head of hair. But some patients who were completely bald were interested in applying testosterone like Thierry does, to their scalp, along with the use of Finasteride. They have grown hair. We will have to see on follow up how much hair was grown.

So long as thyroid hormone is optimized and testosterone is optimized, then behavioral problems from increasing estrogen from using Finasteride, would be minimized.

blackjack wrote:Yes it would be interesting to see how he does on just testosterone gel a lone...