Dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, is an androgen hormone produced by testosterone. High levels of DHT can cause hair loss problems, including androgenetic alopecia, or AGA, and male pattern baldness, ...

First and foremost: What's making this happen? While modern medicine has given us many ways to fight balding, our understanding of what causes male pattern baldness is still a little, well, patchy.

Young women are facing hair loss due to reasons like hormonal changes, tight hairstyles, various hair treatments and crash diets. (Unsplash/ Katsiaryna Endruszkiewicz) Stress, age, hormones, a bad ...

Hormonal imbalances related to androgens, estrogen, cortisol, thyroid hormones, or insulin are often responsible for female hair loss. When these hormones are too low or too high, they can shrink hair ...

The male sex hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT) may play a key role in hair loss. Pattern hair loss, or androgenetic alopecia, is the most common type of hair loss among males. Hair loss affects around ...

Hair loss is often treated as a one-way process, especially when it runs in families. Once hair starts thinning, many people ...

Life is full of abbreviations. We could rattle off dozens. But one you may not be as readily familiar with is DHT. It's short for dihydrotestosterone, and if you know anything about hair loss, you ...

There’s a secret hormone wreaking havoc on your hair, and it’s also one of the biggest contributors to hair loss and thinning. Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is a hormone that causes hair loss by locking ...

November 16, 2010 — Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) treatment for 24 months does not affect prostate growth but causes a decrease in spinal, but not hip, bone mineral density (BMD), according to the results ...

Here's what we know about how this hormone affects your hair. First and foremost: What's making this happen? While modern medicine has given us many ways to fight balding, our understanding of what ...