Hi Suhael and thanks for your questions.

DHT is responsible for the development of the male genitalia at a very young age and the characteristic changes boys go through during puberty — facial hair and body hair. However, it also causes hair loss later in life. This is far more likely to happen in men, who have more DHT than women. However women can still lose hair due to DHT and can also grow facial hair due to DHT — this often happens late in women’s lives.

It won’t make you less of a man if you inhibit the production of DHT in your body because we inhibit DHT without reducing testosterone levels — so your testosterone levels will remain unaffected. You shouldn’t take anti-DHT medicines because these do reduce your testosterone levels and essentially make you less of a man.

The best sign that you have removed DHT from the scalp, reduced your scalps sensitivity to DHT and reduced DHT production in your body will be an improvement in your hair — that’s really the only way you’ll know — but it should be fairly obvious as your hair starts to grow back.

You’ll need to do more than remove and reduce DHT to regrow your hair though. In my experience, most people don’t notice they’re losing their hair until they’ve lost almost 50% of it. By this stage you’re scalp is most likely in a dire state and will need some fairly extreme methods to get it back to peak condition — which is exactly what I explain in my eBook.

If you follow the instructions in my eBook you can stop hair loss in weeks. However it could take up to 6 months before you start to regrow lost hair. For some people it is much quicker. Stopping the hair loss is fairly easy. It’s regrowth that is difficult.

It is possible to regrow lost hair. You have to reactivate dormant hair follicles by feeding them and by alternating between mildly damaging your scalp and intensely nourishing it — which causes a massive increase in cell production, healing and growth in the scalp. The alternation keeps your scalp in a perpetual ‘growth mode’.

The eBook explains the steps that you need to take to permanently reduce your DHT levels without having to take any medication, supplements or follow any time consuming techniques on a daily basis. However, the instructions are not easy to carry out. Some are easier than others and you can achieve a lot with just the easy parts but it’s worth going the full flog, taking some time and properly completing the more difficult parts of the method.

Download a copy from here and if you don’t think you can do it, cancel your order via Google Checkout and you’ll get a full refund.

Keep me informed of your progress.

All the best,

Chris

In the short-term you can reduce DHT levels by taking a saw palmetto supplement — see my hair loss treatments page for more information. However in the long-term there are several things you should do for optimal hormonal balance. These are:

• Improve the efficiency of your liver
• Increase your body’s ‘prostaglandin’ levels
• Reduce your stress levels if necessary
• Make some minor changes to your diet for optimal hormonal balance

By improving the efficiency of your liver you improve it’s capacity to deal with used hormones (which are processed by the liver). Prostaglandins regulate your hormonal balance. By increasing your body’s prostaglandin numbers using a natural whole food supplement you can help your body regulate your hormonal balance naturally.

If you suffer from high stress levels this can effect your hormonal balance, and vice versa. You can use our free stress reduction audio program to change the way you deal with stress, making you a calmer person in stressful situations.

In my eBook I explain how to normalize your hormonal balance to healthy levels by making some small changes to your diet. I also explain how to reduce DHT production and remove DHT from the scalp.

Click here for further information about the eBook, Stop Hair Loss in Six Steps, Guaranteed.

Weight lifting can cause an elevation in testosterone levels. Most body builders know that increasing testosterone levels helps improve power, strength and endurance. This is actually how steroids work. Increasing testosterone has a positive effect on training performance but it can have a negative effect on hair growth.

Testosterone is a male hormone but it is also present (in lesser amounts) in women. Generally speaking the more testosterone in the body, the more extreme the male characteristics will be. If you look at a bull and a cow, the bull is far more muscular and far more aggressive. Both bulls and cows have the same diet. The difference is the bull has far higher testosterone levels.

DHT: a by-product of testosterone

It’s clear that men tend to experience hair loss more so than women. That is because men tend to have more testosterone in their body’s. DHT is a by-product of testosterone. In general, as we age, more DHT is produced from testosterone. DHT seems to cause hair loss and also body hair growth.

Some people’s hair is more susceptible to the effects of DHT than others. Some people’s body’s tend to produce more testosterone than others. Some people will experience more of an elevation in testosterone as a result of starting a weight lifting/body building routine, while others will not experience much of a change. And some people seem to produce more DHT from testosterone than others.

So in answer to your question:

Yes, weight lifting or body building may cause an increased rate in hair loss, IF you are one of the people who is both susceptible to the negative effects of DHT and your weight lifting/body building routine results in an increase in testosterone levels.

From what I know about body building, most people who work-out hard will experience an increase in testosterone but not a massive one. In fact there are many things that cause elevated testosterone levels.

For example, a study discovered that men whose football team won a match had more elevated testosterone levels after the game than the supporters of the losing team. This study shows that the mind is a key controller of hormonal balance and this is one of the key parts of my hair loss eBook.

It shows that it is possible to control your hormonal balance if you are able to take greater control of your mind and your feelings.

In conclusion

It’s my opinion that you don’t need to worry about the effects of body building on your hair, unless you are taking supplements that are designed to increase your testosterone levels. I don’t even need to say that you shouldn’t be taking steroids if you want to be healthy.

If you’re taking steroids and you are one of the millions of people whose scalp is sensitive to DHT you will probably notice an increase in hair loss. Just don’t take them.

However if you’re not taking steroids and you’re working out pretty hard you should be OK, providing you’re following the instructions in my eBook – and so keeping your mind in the right place, keeping your body working at super efficient levels and keeping your scalp clear and free of DHT.

I work out as often as possible – about three times a week and I hit the weights quite hard. I’ve got a pretty muscular body – in fact I’m in great shape – low fat levels, good muscle tone. But I’m highly aware that with exercising and weight lifting you can do things the same way as everyone else or you can use your intelligence to get ahead of the game. And I’m fortunate enough to know about nutrition and how to gain the most benefits from food.

I hope this helps. Thanks for your question.

Chris