Good morning.
"When I was younger (through my 30's), I was considered a "bear" - coverage of hair everywhere. Chest, abs, pubs, back, arms, etc. Hell, even my cock had hair on the shaft! Over the past 25 or so years, I've noticed that my body hair has diminished - even at the underarms. I had written that off as just a derivative of the poor health, Low-T and years of a sedimentary career, binding clothing, etc. ... Natural hair loss does not run anywhere in my family and my body is not completely bare; what's there that I can see is either dark gray or silver and just really, really sparse.
Can body hair recover or once gone, it's gone for good? I kinda miss (as does my husband) the chest hair among many other places. If this condition is somewhat normal for men as we age? Are there OTC topical treatments that can help the follicles resume activity? Or could this be a side-effect of a combination of medications for the conditions that are now mitigating?"
According to Medicine Plus (.gov), the loss of ancillary body hair in men is part of the normal aging process. Called Alopecia (where have we heard about that in the not too distant past?), the cause is typically the natural lowering of Testosterone levels. Other health factors can contribute: low iron, peripheral artery disease, coronary heart disease.
Most research indicates that once body hair has taken a hike, it doesn't come back.
So many different treatments have been tried --- topicals, oral supplements which, according to experts, don't really work. But, because your body hair is thinning but not gone, I wonder if Nutrafol night help? While their website doesn't indicate body hair, it might be worth a shot.
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I used to have beautifully fuzzy legs and butt. Alas, no more. My suggestion: Learn to accept it.
You're right, it's okay if it's just that his hair is thinning but not disappearing,
Hugs and bisous, my darlings Jean and Pat.
Have a great day
I have had a small return of body hair by adding a collagen supplement. Anecdotal evidence.
Being a very late bloomer, once the testosterone kicked in I grew lots of hair, starting with the pubes, heavier down my legs, then a nice carpet of chest and arm hair. As I have aged, I've lost most all of the hair on my legs and feet and the hair on my head is receding rapidly. My doc chocks it up to the ageing cycle and the lack of blood flow to the extremities. However, the areas where blood flow is less diminished, my chest, pubes and arms have kept a goodly amount, and now I have an abundance of shoulder and upper back hair, all areas closest to the ole ticker. Interesting. I will accept any of it leaving my corpus but will be shopping for a good, natural looking hairpiece or wig. I just can't do that bald thing like so many are able to accept. No. Never.
No medical suggestions, but there's one part of his description that I love so much that I may steal it for future use: my lifestyle is so sedentary that it's sedimentary.
Nope.
No experience with this. But I've had lovers who are older and the hair has just turned to gray....
XOXO
I used to have hairy legs. My calves were fuzzy, but no more. I blame some of it on wearing sox every day to work. It's only gotten worse now that I wear compression sox. Other parts have lost some of their fuzz as well, mostly a gradual loss over the years.
my body hair.. arms, pubes and beard are more substantial with SuperBeta Prostate, for some reason.
I got more hair as I got older especially on my chest.
No experience, but I have read just recently minoxidil which is a topical hair growth product is now being used in the pill form. It started out as a blood pressure medicine, but also one of the side effects was hair growth. Folks can Google it to Learned more. The original article was in the New York Times about three years ago. Hugs and bisous
Try Collagen. Pills. It works for me. I am naturally hairy, but a friend recently told me about collagen for joint health. which i needed, but he said beware it makes you hairy. My pelt has increased in greater body area and thickness over the years, I started getting hair on my chest at age 13, just one hair that kept getting longer, but I wanted to see how long it would get, and I didn't want to go to the local swimming pool that summer because I was embarassed about being the youngest in my clas and the earliest to sprout chest hair. The one hair started beside my right nipple, and kept growing unitl it could reach my left nip[ple before any more hair sprouted, and now there is hardly any area of my body without fur, eg: my palms and soles and the head of my dick. Sometimes I see a man furrier than I but it is a rare opportunity. Good luck with yours.
Hello! With age my hair goes away ... but I have hairs that grow where I don't want: Ears, nostrils and shoulders ...
You have to deal with it and sometimes play with tweezers ... it's not a big problem for me.
Good luck
Jeff
Don't give up
The following information is based largely on https://www.healthline.com/health/hair-loss-and-testosterone
Testosterone exists in your body in different forms. There’s “free” testosterone that isn’t bound to proteins in your body. This is the form of testosterone most available to act within the body. Testosterone can also be bound to albumin, a protein in the blood. Most testosterone is bound to sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) protein and isn’t active. If you have a low level of SHBG, you may have a high level of free testosterone in your bloodstream.
Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is made from testosterone by an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase. DHT is five times more potent than testosterone and is primarily used by the body in the prostate, skin, and hair follicles. The actions of DHT and the sensitivity of hair follicles to DHT is what causes hair loss.
DHT also acts in the prostate. Without DHT, the prostate doesn’t develop normally. With too much DHT, a man can develop benign prostate hypertrophy, also known as an enlarged prostate.
It’s not the amount of testosterone or DHT that causes baldness; it’s the sensitivity of your hair follicles. That sensitivity is determined by genetics. The AR gene makes the receptor on hair follicles that interact with testosterone and DHT. If your receptors are particularly sensitive, they are more easily triggered by even small amounts of DHT, and hair loss occurs more easily as a result. Other genes may also play a part.
Hair loss is due to the shrinkage of hair follicles and the resulting impact on the growth cycle. Too much DHT shrinks the hair follicle and new hairs become finer and finer until there’s no hair left at all and the follicles become dormant. However, dormancy suggests the possibility of re-activation by reducing DHT, although that will obviously impact other aspects of the body.
Several methods of treating Male Pattern Baldness (MPB) involve interfering with testosterone and DHT’s actions. Finasteride (Propecia) is a drug that inhibits the 5-alpha reductase enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT, but there may be sexual side effects of this drug.
Another 5-alpha reductase inhibitor called dutasteride (Avodart) is currently being looked at as a potential treatment for MPB. It’s currently on the market for treatment of an enlarged prostate.
Other treatment options that don’t involve testosterone or DHT include:
minoxidil (Rogaine)
ketoconazole
laser treatment
surgical hair follicle transplant
It really is a complicated interaction of hormones and genes that is still not well understood, which leads to various connected changes within the body, so it's not as simple as reducing DHT to get more hair without having other effects that may be as undesirable as hair loss.
I think we have to accept that nature made us most attractive in our sexual primes and when that period is over, doesn't really care about us. It's kind of a shame because men remain virile for much longer than women remain fertile and if we kept our looks for longer, we could have a blast for much longer: is it so much to ask in compensation for being the disposable gender?
I envy you for the hair you had when you were younger: I never developed much hair at all and I find hair so sexy.
Is this J. D. Vance?
Complain to the Creator about indulging in built-in obsolescence, but nature is designed around optimum reproduction and doesn't care about the participants after that period, usually bumping them off due to greater vulnerability to the elements and predation. So, mankind needs to step in and solve the mysteries, because no-one else will.
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