GTFIH Does Finasteride Prevent Facial Aging? (Prevent Fat Pad And Collagen Loss From DHT?)

[Deleted member 23695]

This is one of the more interesting theories I've read on the forum. If DHT is partly responsible for fat pad loss and aging, then nuking it would make you age slower. This would be big, because then finasteride would not only preserve your hair, but also keep you looking young.

Theory: DHT is what causes the inner fat pads on the face to lose volume

There’s two fats on your face. The inner and outter the inner fat is what gives your face volume. Once that is gone the outter fat starts to slide down and sag off your face Now, if you look at any balding dude, 99.999% of them have nasalfolds and sagging skin(aka diminished inner fat pads)...

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Theory #4 on why the facial fat pads can get lost in the mid 20s. Estrogen declines dramatically after 23

Look at this chart. Estrogen literally nose dives at age 23-24 24 is when most people start to lose there fat pads in the face causing outter fat to sag off of inner fat pad this could explain why eliminating DHT brings back fat pads for some because of the estrogen rise not only is estrogen...

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is dht good for aging

foids have no dht and their skin age fast and like shit low sebum production and sun makes them wrinkle hard what about dht

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"DHT nukes your skin and hair (unless you don't have shit genes)"

Anyone think this theory has any validity or value? Thoughts?

 

[Deleted member 17578]

Hair is a big part of facial age and it prevents you from losing hair.

Idk about any effects on skin though.

 

[Deleted member 23695]

Hair is a big part of facial age and it prevents you from losing hair.

Idk about any effects on skin though.

That's true, hair loss affects the way everyone perceives your face. When someone has good hair, their face will be perceived as more youthful than someone with the identical face and hair loss

 

[Deprived]

I believe it's because of finasteride's effect on TGF-beta signaling.

 

[Deleted member 23695]

I believe it's because of finasteride's effect on TGF-beta signaling.

Care to explain?

 

[Deprived]

Care to explain?

no tbh I don't know that much about it anymore, I used to be obsessed with anti aging last year but stopped caring for now

Age-Related Loss of Innate Immune Antimicrobial Function of Dermal Fat Is Mediated by Transforming Growth Factor Beta - PubMed

Dermal fibroblasts (dFBs) resist infection by locally differentiating into adipocytes and producing cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide in response to Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). Here, we show that neonatal skin was enriched with adipogenic dFBs and immature dermal fat that highly...

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[Deleted member 23695]

Finasteride is an anti-aging

BOOM https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3459575/ + This is from the 800$ book about aesthetic procedures

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[Realism]

Honestly, it does make sense.
Very androgenic steroids in particular will age you tremendously.
But then again, oxandrolone makes your skin looks better, and it's a DHT derivate.

 

[Deleted member 3573]

There was that one pic of those twins on lookism. One still had hair due to fin and the other lost it. It seems the guy with hair might've aged better?