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DHT is testosterone converted by 5-alpha-reductase, an enzyme. This happens through endocrinal processes in the liver. I cannot imagine how a topical solution would have any effect on the endocrine system or block the conversion of testosterone into DHT. It's snake oil. Instead, one would need to take a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor orally or through injections. We already have those. Ingesting coffee may have a marginal benefit, but saw palmetto surely does it better. There is also Propecia (finasteride) and a couple of others, but this often has unwanted side effects. Caffeine applied to the scalp is not going to appreciably affect serum DHT levels.

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Only thing that has helped (made me feel like hair was sprouting out of my scalp) is this vegetable drink-- it just sucks having to make it fresh every day, but God answered my prayer because I prayed to Him in the Name of Jesus Christ His Son for the answer to this problem:

http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/getrecipe.zsp?id=45011

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Yeah but how does it taste????? No seriously, couldn't I just wash my hair with like, some folgers.......maybe a carmel latte?

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Why are you talking religion when the article is on hair loss? I hope this is true and the caffeine works. I am not looking forward to looking like a bowling ball

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LOL...how bogus and BS is this? I am 38, and have been balding since i was 17. I drink more caffine in a day than most do in three days. Don't ever believe all that is put in front of you.

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People aren't reading this carefully. Pay attention. It says you can *not* get this benefit by drinking coffee!

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My testosterone has always gotten me into trouble. And now to find out that it is contributing to my baldness...!?! Ridiculous.

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A heart-racing 60 cups? Just today I heard Dr. Dean Edell, my neighbor, explain that 40 cups in one day is universally fatal. Than means your heart won't race at the 60 cup mark and you won't be "jittery" either.

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Huh... I've drunk Comminty Dark Roast (black,no sugar or milk, thank ya)since I was 3... now I'm 60, and balding.
And I my baldness is to due the head-board rub, during wild sex.

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Wasn't George Costanza always drinking coffee???.... not that's there's anything wrong with that..

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I really don't believe coffee has any significant benifit for baldness. I think it may have something to do with wearing caps. All the guys who wear caps or hats in my family are balding. The ones that don't wear caps aren't. My husband wears caps all the time and he says he doesn't agree with me, of course he is balding too. lol

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After 39yrs. of cutting mens hair, if coffee worked I'd be a lot richer. The balding pattern comes from the mothers gene pool, along with color blindness. Testosterone, the male sex hormone is the culprit; but not one of my male clients mind being told the reason their hair went south, having an excess abundance of the male sex hormone!

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Jesus, bald, religion, it's an amazing combination and maybe it could only occur in this great country. When religion and belief in a higher being stop being a matter of free choice, they lose their value whether it be in this country or another. I doubt any of us really wants that. Think and choose. That's what it's about and an important incentive for so many of our families that migrated here.

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I drink a group of coffee, have for many many years and I've been balding for many years as well. I take sal palmetto and have noticed an increase in baby hair but it doesn't develope into mature hair. All the reading I have done seem to agree that the main culprit is DHT. I really don't think it's a matter of having an abundance of testosterone, but how much of that testosterone is converted to DHT. Yea, testosterone is the male sex hormone, but it's more like what influences gender developement, as in what makes us guys. Assuming the research is correct, perhaps the over abundance of testosterone allows more of it to be converted to DHT which would increase the amount of baldness. Far be it for me to know the answer, I just know that the amount of coffee I drink hasn't had an effect on my hair loss, at least that I am aware of. I'm lucky that my wife finds it attractive and sexy so I'm not worried about it. If something came along to correct it, I would probably go for it, as long as the side effects were very minor or better yet, non existant. In the mean time, I accept it, have moved past it, and ready for my second pot of java.

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Wow! It is stimulating to see so many educated Americans who can't read! Drinking coffee isn't the answer, and the article is clear on that. It is a "topical" application which they are prescribing, which means it goes on the surface (scalp) not in the gullet (belly). I'm not a doctor (but I play one on TV), but the blogger who so eloquently discussed the scientific basis of the endocrine process also missed the importance, that it "protected the hair follicle" from the effects of DHT, not that it reduced the level of DHT. This would not require an endocrinal manipulation, rather, a "topical application". Think of it like teflon for the hair. Teflon is not "drawn out" of the metal to which it is applied, rather, it is APPLIED to the metal, which coats it and prevents things from sticking. This treatment would be absorbed by or would effectively "coat" the hair follicle and thus protect it from the effects of the DHT. That testosterone leads to baldness is nothing new, as the DHT link has been know for decades. It is the ability to mitigate the damage it does (or reverse it) that is the constant source of new information. Either way, it is good news for Starbucks. Buy stock now.

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Trust me, if it would work, I'd buy out the coffee industry for my hubby LOL

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It's funny how people are so quick to respond.
Read. Application, not consumption.

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Does this coffee thing work for women also? My hair is thinning on top the dermatologist said it is from taking some medication for Bell's Palsy.

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And is baldness a "disease" we need to "cure"???...what about those sexy, masculine guys that look great with shaved heads?? Make the best of what you have and save the coffee for morning stimulation.

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What's the point? You say "cure" as if baldness were some horrible disease, like leprosy or something!
My brother was bald in his early 30s, and he doesn't care! His wife doesn't care, either!
What's the point of taking all kinds of stupid chemicals, or mutilating your scalp with plugs, just to replace a pile of stuff that you DON'T need to survive?

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