[C19fan]

Just another reason to cue Randy Newman song. As a male on the wrong end of the Bell Curve of height thankfully it appears I have hair genes from my father's side so I still have a full head of hair in middle age. If growth hormone and gaining height by literally breaking legs was available when I was growing I would say HELL YES!.

[Vaquero]

I’m 6’1”. Lost most of my hair by my early 20s.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Article doesn’t seem to define short, but I only skimmed it. At 5’11” I’m at least several inches shorter than all my brothers...I hope shortness isn’t relative.

[Terry L Smith]

Running through a Southern California late President’s home slash library slash museum, with a whole bunch of historical leader statues, all the leaders that were shorter than, or taller than, five foot nine inches, were all the troublemakers.

(I’m fine.)

[fluorescence]

> the testosterone which can cause boys to stop growing early, by closing the plates at the end of their bones during their teenage years

Early plate closure is caused by too much estrogen too early (giving those boys aromatase inhibitors raises their testosterone and makes them grow taller, faster) and premature balding is caused by the hair follicles having an abnormal response to DHT and getting inflamed and ditching their hair. In both cases you have abnormal hormonal responses and not necessarily high testosterone.

I have browsed hair loss forums because the topic is personally interesting, and a lot of men report rather abnormal hormone levels for men, often low testosterone and high estrogen, etc. The newest that I have read is from people hoping to restore hair by modifying levels of PGD2 and PGE2. Unfortunately they have to experiment on themselves because regular medicine offers nothing.

[Jeff Chandler]