Green Tea and Hair Loss

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Side effects

Care should be taken to those with sensitive stomachs, since the caffeine, tannins,
acids, etc, can cause stomach irritation. Many people do resort to taking high
doses of herbals, so that 1.5 g of caffeine per day in green teas can cause
restlessness, irritability, sleeplessness, palpitations, vomiting, headache
and other symptoms. Those who consume more than 300 mg or 5 cups of tea beverage
can lead to the above symptoms, however fatal doses are most likely not possible.

Other uses

Green tea is most widely known in cosmetic preparations for wrinkles on the
face. The price of topical creams, lotions, potions with green tea is off the
wall, and again, I haven’t seen any real evidence that using these agents,
topically or orally really helps in reversing wrinkles, but ladies will stand
in line at cosmetic counters, not to mention popular shopping networks to buy
the stuff for big bucks.

Interesting comment

Minoxidil or Rogaine is also thought to work in stimulating hair growth because
of its oxidative-reducing capacity for cofactors in the metabolic pathway. I
would think that if green tea works to help hair growth, it would be in a similar
way to minoxidil, rather then influencing the 5a-reductase enzymes. Who knows?
Not enough research has been done to really find out if it works and what mechanism(s)
it may have in skin.

Conclusion

Try it if you want to, but again with any hair-growing agent, it is advised
to use for a 6 month to 12-month period for hair growth. I’d be interested
to know if it helped with hair shedding, so if you try it, let me know what
you think. Remember, we usually shed about 100 hairs per day (shower, hair brush,
comb, pillow, floor etc), so if you see reduced shedding, there may be something
to it.

References:
1. www.keratin.com for baldness treatments, Green Tea.
2. Nagata C, et al., Association of coffee, green tea, and caffeine intakes
with serum concentrations of estradiol, and sex hormone-binding globulin in
premenopausal Japanese women. Nutr Cancer, 1998: 30:21-24.
3. Liao S, Hiipakka RA. Selective inhibition of steroid 5a-reductase isozymes
by tea epicatechin-3-gallate and epigallocatechin-3-gallate. Biochem Biophys
Res Commun 1995; 25:214; 833-838.
4. Camellia Sinensis: Herbal PDR, 1999, 710-11. Medical Economics Co.

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