Re: Adrenal insufficiency hair loss and gender

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> I was trying to figure out why women have hair loss in adrenal issues

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> men do not. This is what I found:

> " Men do not have hair loss because androgens in males are produced

> primarily in the testes. "

> http://www.emedicine.com/DERM/topic761.htm

> Cheri

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> I think the type of hair loss that they're referring to in that

article is pubic hair though, right? I am a female with hair loss that

began around the time my adrenals crashed. However, I am losing scalp

hair and it is androgen-driven loss.

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