YSK that having more facial or body hair as a woman is not necessarily indicative of her “having too many androgens”

The problem often lies in the hair follicles reacting very sensitively to androgens. So she might have a perfectly healthy level of androgens but the follicles just go like “anyway, I started blastin”. The distinction is important because suggesting a hormonal imbalance basically implies there is something wrong with her at the very basis of her sex, both visually (because of the hair) and hormonally when in fact it’s just HAIR doing what it wants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsutism?wprov=sfti1

I post that because when women talk about body hair and one has more than the others, her friends and family are quick to talk about her hormones, implying PCO and that she is ill/not right. No man, it’s just hair.

The problem often lies in the hair follicles reacting very sensitively to androgens. So she might have a perfectly healthy level of androgens but the follicles just go like “anyway, I started blastin”. The distinction is important because suggesting a hormonal imbalance basically implies there is something wrong with her at the very basis of her sex, both visually (because of the hair) and hormonally when in fact it’s just HAIR doing what it wants.https://ift.tt/2q3A0uQ post that because when women talk about body hair and one has more than the others, her friends and family are quick to talk about her hormones, implying PCO and that she is ill/not right. No man, it’s just hair. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J https://ift.tt/2XV8dZP