That is true. Low testosterone will cause SHBG to downregulate to ensure you still have enough free testosterone to function. When this happens there is less SHBG to bind up DHT and that means more DHT to fuck up your hair. We need to focus on increasing our testosterone levels!
To be honest I'm at 3 weeks of no porn everyday and YES my hair has been thinner way more than it was a few months this back so maybe your right hut I was balding before .. is there a time flatline is over I actually think imma pull through this time
I have exact same problem as you @Arnulf , i am on NoFap day 46 and started getting hairs thinned after day 25 and losing almost 25% of my hair since past week. By continuing this i am afraid I will be completely bald in another month, No doubt I am seeing other benefits being on NoFap, but I am worried i have to compromise here. Need suggestions from people who experienced and overcame this problem.
Your theories are dope. really masturbation increases prolactin levels and there is a well known study based on this so stop spreading these misinformations.
I don't want to encourage or discourage any scientific research or verified belief. Just sharing my personal experience here. After I've started practicing semen retention, my hairs are falling like crazy, crazy, crazy. I was one of those guys with the thickest and most dense hairs in my whole class. Even I used to challenge my friends if they can break a single hair by giving try to a fistful pull to my head. However, my hairline started receding a little bit but my hair were always dense on the whole head and they used to grow very fast too. But I don't know what's happening now. They are falling very fast in a large amount specially in frontal part of the skull. I know everyone's body has a slightly different mechanism and response cycle to different changes(outer and inner both). I'm still finding out if there could be any other reason behind this mass deforestation on my head . But that is something I can truly relate from my personal experience. I agree that most of the people advocate for nofap being a boon to their hair growth. But, exceptions exist everywhere. Don't know where is the problem in my case. However, good luck to all my buddies here. Have a nice day
I feel like I've been shedding more hair in the shower as well. On the other hand I noticed my hair is healthier than ever. Not sure what to make of that except out with the old in with the new? Hair loss doesn't seem to be apparent day to day. It's just what I notice at the shower drain. Maybe not enough to make a difference but it does seem like it's more loss, not less. I also noticed this when I started a keto diet six months ago. I've since stopped keto and gone on a "low carb diet" instead.
I too am concerned with the hair thinning. I have been trying NoFap on and off for the past year and my hair has been getting worse, More shedding and a lot thinner than its ever been. It's been pretty stable prior to this. I mean those claiming that NoFap causes hair regrowth is questionable. It definitely does not regrow my own hair in my experience anyway. I mean I understand peoples reluctance to admit this as a side effect, but we don't have much studies on this to claim otherwise at the moment. Plus DHT may not be the only factor implicated in hair loss and there may be other hormones at work causing this effect - like PGD2 which they don't even know why yet but think its a factor. So anyway I'm still continuing NoFap but I'm also monitoring my hair very seriously at the same time to be on the safe side because whatever NoFap is doing in my body, it might be speeding up the process of hair thinning for me at least and the pressure is on to try and combat it.
Start consuming foods that are the building blocks of hair, skin, nails and connective tissues - collagen rich broths are a great place to get going. Go to the butcher and ask for some offcuts. A few vertebrae simmered for six hours will do a good job, add some vinegar to help extract minerals from the bone. Strain the solids out and drink straight or add in to soups, curry or whatever. Collagen supplements are also available.
My hair started thinning out as well as most of you here described their issue. It started around 2 and a half months after I started my first streak which was 4 months long. Now, I also had some severe acne outbreaks when I was around 1 month into nofap. At first, I thought that these things are happening because there is too much heat developing in my body so I started walking and jogging regularly but things did not seem to improve that much. Then, I thought that I am having some really severe withdrawal symptoms as I suddenly stopped fapping and went on for 4 months straight. My diet and lifestyle were not bad to be honest so that was not my concern anyway. I also am suffering from seborrheic dermatitis which basically is a worse version of dandruff and I have noticed that if I go for a binge and then around 12 days after abstaining I get severe inflammation as if my body is trying to curse me of stopping a pleasurable activity. After my first streak ended I decided to go on nofap again and went on for 91 days during which I noticed my hairline went back. This, was also the time when I noticed growing of my chest as well as beard hair. Currently I am on/off nofap and my mind keeps conflicting between whether to do nofap or not. If all of you especially @Arnulf could help me in my situation that would be absolutely great EDIT : my nofap counter is not true.
I would encourage you to keep going. I had a full head of hair a few years ago. Now it is quite thin after a lot of MO/PMO and after a good bit of reading on here and elsewhere I believe that Fappening has a lot to do with it. Our bodies now lack the necessary nutrients that are expelled during Fappening. I will go two months and report back here.
initially, my hair did grow thicker for like 2 months and then I noticed kind of a downfall. There are going to be two outcomes in my opinion. Either you do not have balding genes which basically means that hair follicles on your scalp are not sensitive to DHT then, your hair will be thick if you keep following nofap because your hair thickness got reduced in the first place due to a bad lifestyle of PMO( which impacts mentally more than physically). The second outcome will be that you may experience symptoms like us if you have DHT-sensitive hair follicles. Now why one experiences stuff like this all depends on what are the long term effects of abstinence which unfortunately does not have any scientific research to back it up
I have given this a LOT of thought in the past year, and I have a very strong hypothesis that edging is the main culprit here. If you start Nofap with the goal of not ejaculating, and it turns into a lot of edging instead, it could explain the hair thinning on Nofap. Some people definitely experience worse hairloss after stopping Nofap, so lets not be so quick to dismiss these stories, even if the underlying mechanics of it are still unknown.
Making an update here, since I was the one who started this thread: Ive been on a long-is streak lately and I can say with 100 % certainty that my hair has thinned SIGNIFICANTLY in this time. No other sudden lifestyle changes except this. I had some thinning near the temples, but now suddenly there is scalp visible all the way back throughout my scalp. I know this is just another anecdotal story, but since I have had some focus on this for the past years I see very clear acceleration of my hair thinning in just this 1-2 months. I can only speculate as to the mechanisms behind this and I'm sure this will once again bring out all the naysayers saying "there is no evidence to support this", but for me this is very real. Could it be a massive spike in DHT from semen retention? Could it be a SHED before it is supposed to grow back THICKER later? (since many say semen retention regrow hair). I don't know, but this is very depressingm....