The lasers keep burning it off
He’s one of the smartest youtubers I routinely watch. And yeah, crazy high testosterone, although you might never guess. I generally would assume someone with that much testosterone would have some facial hair.
harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Dude’s in his 30s but looks and sounds like a guy in his early 20s.
emmy5482@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Mostly you’d expect them to be bald
Shizzymcjizzles@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
What does it mean if you have high testosterone and a lot of hair on your head? 😅
emmy5482@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Might not have the hair for too long. Though you might. Depends on the tolerance for testosterone. Just know that high testosterone and baldness are highly correlated
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You could also have a high tolerance for DHT, which is the metabolite of testosterone associated with hair loss.
In general though I think a lot of people focus very hard on the specific hormones, and typically they’ll do what they say on the tin in standard doses. But there are a lot of edge cases. Higher or lower sensitivities, general proclivities, etc.
Before transitioning most people would’ve suspected I had very high T. I had a deep voice at a young age, built muscle fast, full beard as a teenager, the whole shebang minus baldness (but I transitioned young so that could just be time). But nope, my levels were average. I also responded fairly strongly to estrogen.
What’s far more important than your numbers is if you’re getting healthy and acceptable effects from your hormone levels. There’s no need to mess with your levels unless there’s need to mess with your levels.
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Iirc, keeping or losing your hair as a guy has to do with DHT receptors in your hair follicles. T doesn’t make your hair fall out, but DHT does, and your body produces more DHT as you get older (hence why finastride works as a hair loss inhibitor - it blocks DHT from the receptors in your hair). But only the hair on the top of your head is sensitive to this, with sensitivity higher in some places than others. Hence, some guys bald on the crown first, while some have a receding hairline first, and some never bald at all.
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
At that level of androgen, some of the androgen will be transformed into estrogen.
Source: I’m on hrt
nightlily@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Yes! Free oestrogen is not actually a particularly good thing if you’re not on antiandrogens and pointless if you are. E-maxxing is sadly money down the drain.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How do you know what his testosterone levels is?
glibg10b@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
See the first video in the screenshot
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
He has a very uncommon medical condition that he shared with his viewer base a while ago, largely because it had a serious impact on how often he was putting out videos for a while until he got it diagnosed
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
im pretty sure thats what the first video in the original comment is about
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Integer overflow.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s not how testosterone works. It’s not fuel, it’s just a signal. Everyone’s neutral point is calibrated differently depending on developmental events mainly in the womb. It’s not about how much absolute testosterone you have in a snapshot, it’s about how much higher or lower you are than your own personal baseline.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
im guessing he also has some degree of androgen insensitivity. having crazy high testosterone youd expect large muscles, lots of facial hair, male pattern baldness, a low voice, but hes not that big, has at least thin facial hair that he shaves, a full head of hair, and a relatively high voice. idk if any version of androgen insensitivity is associated with very high testosterone levels but i wouldn’t be surprised.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 weeks ago
Type 2 testobetes
MrSmith@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Actual High-T, low-E build: researchgate.net/…/The-27-yr-old-male-with-aromat…
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bro caught that Elon torso syndrome
imgcat@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
these are just stereotypes