Hormones 2016

Male pattern baldness
available), or by intramuscular injection. All of those methods allow the
hormone to enter the bloodstream first which means there is better efficiency
and only waste product hormones will go through the liver in much smaller
amounts.
I have had great difficulty in determining exactly how damaging elevated
estradiol levels may be to one’s liver. A recent study published in
"Oncology: International Journal of Cancer Research and Treatment", in a
hospital-based case-controlled study of male liver cancer patients in Greece
which looked specifically at the phenomena of elevated estradiol levels in
such patients. It looked at 98 cancer patients and 111 control cases. It had
been claimed that the elevated estradiol levels may have been responsible
for the liver damage, however that claim was not supported by this study.
When the researchers compensated for the fact that the cancer patients’
livers were compromised, and therefore incapable of dealing with steroid
hormones efficiently, the conclusion was that the elevated estradiol levels
were a consequence of the liver damage, not the cause of it (Kuper et al.,
2001).
Part of the difficulty in determining what the actual liver damage risk is
posed by estradiol is that there are too many variables to simply say you
have X% chance of harming your liver if you take oral estradiol. If your
liver is already compromised by pre-existing liver disease, or you have
a predisposition to liver-related complications, or if you mega-dose (as
mentioned above) thus consuming "toxic" levels, you’re obviously going
to have a far greater risk than someone without such factors (hemingways,
2004c).
See the section on Progesterone below for liver toxicity information
regarding that hormone.
Male pattern baldness
Male pattern baldness, or androgenic alopecia, typically affects the front and
top of the scalp first where the most genetically-susceptible hair follicles
reside. DHT is the primary contributing factor in male pattern baldness.
Female hair loss can be very complicated and DHT could be just one of the
possible causes. In women DHT is influenced by a decrease in oestrogen
and hair loss tends to result in thinning, rather than complete balding.
DHT inhibits and reduces the proper growth of hair in the follicles in
a process called ’miniaturisation’. "Miniaturisation" affects geneticallysusceptible
hair follicles resulting in lighter, finer hairs. DHT attaches itself
to receptor cells of the part of these follicles called dermal papillas (the
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