Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

DHT: The hormone that cause prostate inflammation, hair loss, and feminization #shorts #testosterone

9 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube short by Anne Truong MD explaining that DHT (dihydrotestosterone), derived from testosterone, is inflammatory to the prostate and can cause hair loss. The speaker also asserts that men with abdominal or chest (breast) fat convert testosterone into estrogen and DHT, which she links to hair loss, prostate irritation, reduced testosterone, and feminizing changes such as breast development.

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DHT is the hormone that comes from testosterone, and when it's high, it's very, very inflammatory to the prostate. But DHT or dihydrotestosterone can cause hair loss too. When men that has fat around their belly here or fat on their breast will actually convert the testosterone to estrogen and also convert that to dihydrotestosterone, which will cause hair loss, which then irritate your prostate, and then the testosterone gets converted to estrogen, which then causes you to have be a little bit more woman like start to have breast development and you start to have less testosterone.