[Parmenidea]

Do you give any credence to the reports that creatine can cause hair loss? It seems like one study found a link, but nobody has tried to directly replicate it since. Anecdotally, Reddit is filled with stories of people claiming it caused hair loss, though I’m sure there are a ton of confounding variables.

[yeeeloit]

Seems to be one of those topics... but anyway this study from 2009 found that creatine did in fact increased DHT.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19741313/

To be clear, no one is arguing that Creatine causes hairloss, simply that it exacerbates hairloss in people with so called androgenetic alopecia.

I recall a study that was set to try and replicate these results, but I worry that it was impacted by COVID. If anyone else can find it, I'd be very interested to see it.

[chpatrick]

I think people will always seek dubious explanations for why they're balding apart from "bad luck" and "you're old".

[sn9]

https://examine.com/supplements/creatine/faq/ZJ73RJV-does-cr...

[tysam_and]

Well, people who use creatine also have a greater chance of having dihydrotestosterone, if I recall correctly....

Honestly hard to say, because that doesn't immediately "disprove" it either....