Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is a derivative of testosterone that is known as being more potent at signalling through the androgen receptor, and due to this it is involved to a larger degree in hair loss and prostate cancer.
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Q: Does creatine cause hair loss?
A: It’s plausible, but unlikely. One RCT linked creatine supplementation to an increase in DHT — an androgen involved in hair loss — but this RCT has never been replicated.
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The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect dht
| Grade | Level of Evidence |
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| Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials | |
| Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled | |
| Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies | |
| Uncontrolled or observational studies only |
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Level of Evidence ?
The amount of high quality evidence. The more evidence, the more we can trust the results.
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Outcome |
Magnitude of effect ?
The direction and size of the supplement's impact on each outcome. Some supplements can have an increasing effect, others have a decreasing effect, and others have no effect.
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Consistency of research results ?
Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.
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Notes |
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| Creatine |
All comparative evidence is now gathered in our Supplement Goals Reference. The evidence for each separate supplement is still freely available here. |
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| Dehydroepiandrosterone | ||||
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