arthemofan sent 17 hours ago
tote ok to refer anyone to the site or me!
just have your friends post questions here, and I'll do my best to answer, but imho it's a very generic problem, not super complicated, and with a generic answer: the only thing that can really help a balding cis guy with minimal side effects is topical estrogel maybe at very high concentration (but they have to brew it themselves) directly applyied on the balding parts - as little gel as possible, just enough to make the skin quite shiny (ie pea size on the finger NOT A FULL PUMP), but OTOH as often as possible, like at least 3 times a day, and more likely 6, then washed after I can't remember how long, but the trigger time between the change of pathways, something like 20 min IIRC.
Or was it 5? It's been a while, but think of the skin like a big shield with tiny holes (where the hair emerge): rub some gel, it goes into the holes immediately. some sit on the shield and eventually go through - but not of you wash it away first. and enough will have gone in the hole that it doesn't matter if you remove some of it that's there.
This will saturate the shunt pathway of the skin (ie go through the follicles) while fully avoiding the stratum corneum, which is double bonus: the hair follicles is where they WANT the E2 to be, the rest is what would raise the blood level and deliver the side effects we want (boobz!) and they dont!!
That's the best summary I can do in 5 min, they should rly learn ab the basics of skin absorption, I made several beginners guides on
r/estrogel, can't find them ATM but it's all there, summarized from books and research papers, with plenty links to learn more if some parts are unclear
actually, just feel free to copy paste the above on their forum, so they get the basics right wrt the dose, site and frequency. I don't want ppl to mess up and experience dysphoria or have to pay for gyno removal.
