So, guys, Derek, more plates, more dates.com.

Today we're going to be talking about the exact moment in time when I noticed I was losing my hair.

So I've talked about in the past about the fact that you won't notice hair loss until you've lost over 50% of it.

And a lot of people don't really like grasp what I mean by that. And they think,

you know, oh, like you've old guys always lose their hair. Why is it that young guys that have way

higher natural testosterone and DHT levels still have their hair and older guys don't, even though

their androgens are lower, obviously, that goes against the whole androgen paradox androgen paradox and blah blah and in reality it really doesn't because miniaturization

is not an overnight thing it's not like you suddenly hit 60 years old and 50% of the

hair falls out of your head rather it's a progressive thing that's built up and over the span of you

know for some people decades um and for some people, you know, a shorter period

of time, depending on AR density, expression itself, endogenous androgen production,

how much you actually produce your, you know, what metabolism sex hormones you have. Some

people, five alpha reduce more to D t relative to aromatizing to estrogen everyone

has their own uh kind of like steroidogenesis pathways where their body like preferentially

you know will move shit to that it feels uh physiologically beneficial for you know optimizing

whatever processes are occurring in your body.

And some people will have more 5 alpha reductase activity than the next guy.

Or some might have, you know, more aromatase expression or more aromatase enzymes to begin with because they're too fat.

And then they get gyno.

Like there's different, you know, there's individual genetic factors at play here as well as

lifestyle related body composition related diet related factors that all

intertwine but as far as the reason why you know you lose hair when you're older

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