[ekanes]

Creatine is awesome, but hair loss in men with male pattern baldness is frequently reported by myself and others in comments under all the "creatine is amazing no downsides" youtube posts and elsewhere. I've experienced it personally.

[grugagag]

Is it temporary? Does hair loss go away when you stop taking creatine?

[washadjeffmad]

It could be that men who feel the need to start taking creatine are at the point in life where baldness is likely to occur, are taking other supplements that could be testosterone converting, are exploring these options as part of an unconscious recognition of an onset of balding, or are just becoming aware of existing balding due to greater self-awareness due to their self-improvement.

I'd put any one of those ahead of "creatine made me go bald".

[pitched]

The link to baldness comes indirectly through increasing DHT. The increase in DHT, if I understand right, can speed up existing hair loss. Where it gets shaky is that DHT is also increased by excersize and follow-up studies accounting for that found a decrease in DHT while on creatine. So we don’t know yet, basically, and you should stop if there is a concern.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7871530/

[ekanes]

It did for me.