A 47-year-old member asked:
Testosterone level high increase body hair growth?
1 doctor answer • 2 doctors weighed in
Dr. Alvin Linanswered
Geriatrics 31 years experience
Maybe but it depends: Testosterone is converted into dihydrotestosterone (dht), which is androgenic - makes you more masculine. Dht is what stimulates male pattern body hair as well as male pattern baldness. Body & scalp hair also depend upon genetics, such as your family & ethnicity. In other words, if everyone in your family has lots of body hair, you will most likely have lots, too. But so can excess testosterone.
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Last updated Jun 25, 2014
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