Does Working Out / Exercising at the gym causes hair loss?!
Question:
Does Working Out / Exercising at the gym causes hair loss?
I've been working out since September of last year, but I've only really starting working out on a consistent basis (3 times per week) since January. Oddly enough, I find that my hair has thinned out, on the top of my head, considerably over the past five months. I already have a little bit of a receding hairline, but it's not noticeable at all, but now that my hair around it is thinning out, I'm beginning to look noticeably balding.
I know male pattern baldness is unpreventable, but I find that it's pretty coincidental that my hair overall is thinning out at the same time as I began to seriously work out.
Exercising DOES increase testerostone (DHT) in your body, but does it ever increase it enough to accelerate hair loss this rapidly? I'm not taking anything (supplements, drugs, medication) at all. I am working out au naturel. Has anyone ever had this experience, or know of anyone who had this happen to them?
Answers:
I hope not because I have been working out hard for the last couple years hard and I have a whole head of hair. I believe it is strictly genetics and luck.