November 11 2008, 3:35 pm PT | Posted in: Hair Loss Causes
Overdoing self-manipulation (masturbation) converts too much testosterone into dihydrotestosterone(DHT). High levels of DHT overload the body causing baldness and possible prostate enlargement if blood circulation is poor in the prostate area causing a build-up of the compound. Reducing the frequency of your self gratification will help maintain low levels of DHT and avoid hair loss.
Im sorry Dr. Rassman but i study biology and im interested in hair loss and there is mountains of evidence to prove it. You dont even need evidence, its common sense. And heres why. If castration stops you from going bald, then anything that can get as close to the castration effect, to the point of almost castration such as no sex, masturbation, no erections, clearly DHT levels will be incredibly reduced.
Some people know just enough to be dangerous. Whether you decide to masturbate or not, your testicles will put out testosterone which will be converted to DHT. Nothing you can do short of real castration will stop that process and I am not recommending that you get yourself castrated.
If the way you love your life makes you happy, by all means do not masturbate as there is nothing in that act that is necessary for maintenance of your health. To everyone else, there is no connection between masturbation and hair loss. If you believe the old wives’ tales, I’m not going to change your mind. I haven’t been successful in the previous messages about this, and I doubt this will change your tune. I think that you have exhausted this subject.
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Maybe God linked masturbation to hairloss as a punishment because it is bad. I’m going to chop off my testicles and penis tomorrow. Don’t be surprised if they are parceled to NHI.
I just have to say–this is absolute bullshit!
The main reason being inductive reasoning: how many readers has a friend that is experiening no baldness? I challenge you to ask them how many times they masturbated growing up. Compare that to your frequency and the conclusion will be that he probably jacked off more.
Not to mention if there was any validity to this every seventeen year old in the world would be class fours.
I wonder if all of these men who claim their hair loss is linked to masturbation might be suffering from zinc deficiency and not high levels of prolactin or dht. I would like to think the Dr. is right but there’s a lot of evidence for there being a connection between ejaculation/sex and hair loss and his ’smarter than thou’, quick to dismiss attitude doesn’t really help. The main reason, besides loss of zinc, that I think there *may* be a connection is because prolactin raises after ejaculation and prolactin stimulates the production of the enzyme 5 alpha reductase which converts testosterone-DHT. It seems logical, to me, that frequent ejaculation could lead to elevated levels of prolactin which could ultimately trigger the production of dht. I do realize that some DHT will be converted no matter what you do, as long as you have testicles.
“Also, if your theory was true ever guy in Porn would be bald due to their excessive ‘draining’.”
Some men have a genetic sensitivity to DHT, others do not. Things like diet, exercise, stress etc. only play a role in hair loss, they don’t absolutely cause or prevent it.
masturbation causes not only desensitizaton, but the visualization with it is by default pornographic. any of this, will get people to mutually disrespect the innocence of themselves. i know for a fact that MANY people dont believe this, but then again, the normal population are not as sexually moral as pre 1960’s. people have to be told many times not to do bad things…but then the baby boomers come along with a force of vengeance and say that ALL pleasures are good in moderation by the rule “personal liberty”…and now we live in a society where most of our children will get stoned and will be sexually perverted.
P.S. how do you know porn stars dont go to Hair club for men??
do you really think our movie stars are not genetically bald?
more plastic surgery please…for my daughter : )
self gratify yourself, support porn, support all the “pleasure companies” and your children will inherit our sins…YOu know this…all of you…question is … can you keep your hands off the “joystick” and think like the pre-1960’s and say “enough is enough”!!!
my stink is to take all the good through the best, and then dump the rest… this means, we take the best morals of life and dump the worst…take the family values and innocence of the pre-1950’s and take away the war, prejudice, ignorance, and racism and add it to the …peace, open mindedness-without the drugs and perversion- and we have ourselves a better society….
do the right thing, even if it hurts…for our children and our children’s children!!
Hi, as I was reading this blog I was surprised of the doctors answer….My reason to say this is that I am 23 and experiencing hairloss and I found why I am lossing my hair I noticed that when I masturbated I had a sour scalp only around the vertex area and this only happens when I masturbate and why this happens to me now? is because I over masturbated way too many times for like the last 3 years I had sex and masturbated like every single day of my life which now is having an effect on me, and as I entered in panic I started to look for answers and I found articles saying many of the symtptoms that I have so I am 100% sure that over masturbating causes imbalance in your body now I have decided to have sex twice a week
I have been a chronic masturbator for over an year. I was also doing too many stressful activities + 1 hour of vigorous exercise and also masturbate all day long and churn out the fluid from all the organs viz. bulb-urethral glands, testicles, prostate, etc. until i go dry and a tickle is enough to make me ejaculate. Finally one day, last month, i peaked masturbation and my hair was literally falling out not in dozens but 100s a day. Imagine losing 500-600 strands a day for 30 days!… I got bald all of a sudden over the crown and it came as a severe shock to me. I did not want to react to it as i felt i might lead myself to some heart problem or high blood pressure.
This made me take one strict oath. Not to ejaculate… And guess what?… i succeeded in not ejaculating for 22 days after being a chronic masturbator!. And on the 22nd night, i did not masturbate, but had a nocturnal emission which i should say was nature`s way of disposing stuff… Now, since the 22nd night, i haven`t even touched my organ for any other reason other than urinating, until yesterday (26th) when i got mad. Still i haven`t ejaculated. So, i`m going to live the life of a school kid and let me see if i can reverse the effects of over masturbation faster…
I definitely think masturbation plays a part in baldness. I tried to stop masturbating for a month and my hair seemed to fall out far less, and it was thicker. It also had psychological effects - I was more motivated. positive, and felt a lot more responsive to women. It felt like women knew I had not ejaculated for ages, and they were more interested in me, although this could have been because I was noticing them more.
I believe baldness is linked to our psychological well-being - if we feel unhappy, stressed, anxious etc. and we don’t vent these emotions or learn to calm down, we lose our hair. Other animals also lose their hair, feathers etc if they are stressed and put in poor conditions. If you want to keep your hair, learn to relax, and be at ease with everything in the same way a child is. Only adult men go bald, and only adult men masturbate and get massively stressed out - I think there is a link.