Recent content by Broons85

I never said anything about apoptosis. Apoptosis is one form of cell death. It could be necrosis. You misunderstood me. I'm well aware that the folicles arrest and do not die right away, or maybe ever. I'm not saying the cells will die when you're 30, or 40, or 50. I'm saying that eventually the...

Drinking small amounts is a yay (or neutral), drinking large amounts is a huge nay. According to that paper, large amounts of alcohol shut off your insulin/sugar metabolism, and that's at the root of hair loss (and most diseases out there).

Since no one really knows what's causing male pattern baldness, I think we should all be open to new ideas. That being said, I think it's obvious that it is a phenomenon that has evolutionary roots. By that I mean that I think one can explain male pattern baldness with a combination of...

I agree completely. However, you should look into PCOS. First I think you have to think of it in the context of what's causing the hormones to get out of balance, and to that extent, what we have control over. What's causing us, men, to create more androgen? I think it's decreased sensitivity to...

I will post pictures. I also wanted to bring up something else to get people's opinions. In thinking along the lines of insulin resistance, I started thinking about oxidative damage (not just applicable to hair loss). If there is insulin resistance, then that means that there is not a lot of...

Nashville, the point of this thread isn't to post pics to prove this theory. It's to discuss the effects of diet (and anything else) on hair loss. Also, my pictures may overstate the effects. I think lighting, length of hair, whether or not it's recently been washed, etc. can really effect how...

Bryan, not sure if you read the rest of my post, but that's why I said later in the post that I don't have an opinion on it. I wanted to answer his question directly, but I meant it in the sense that according to "experts," you would want to raise SHBG in the context of hair loss. The rest of my...

Artas, to answer your question directly, you would want to raise your SHBG in order to have better hair. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the thinking on SHBG in hairloss (I don't really have an opinion myself): In men who are balding, their hair follicle is sensitive to a...

This information is amazing. I'm glad this thread picked up again. I'm currently in my PhD program, and have talked with a researcher about studying insulin signaling in cancer. I certainly haven't studied the nutritional and hormonal aspect of this as much as some of you have, but I'm really...

That may be true. But, I don't know enough to comment on the veracity of it. I won't even bother looking into it because I honestly don't care. My common sense tells me it may be bad. I have no reason not to avoid it. I'd rather assume it's toxic and be wrong than assume it's harmless and be...

That's amazing! All these years I had no idea that that's what it was. Thanks for the update. I'm gonna do some gluten-free shopping at Trader Joe's. You got any other tips on where I should go for that?

I don't think his opinion is a conspiracy theory: I'm saying I don't buy the conspiracy theory itself. I don't think that one company's (or even one industry's) attempt to defame an obscure detergent in shampoo is responsible for SLS being considered toxic. I think it's considered toxic because...

That's exactly where it was. What does that mean?

Thanks for pointing out the typo, Bryan. I also spelled reason "reaosn," but I guess you missed that one. There's also a theory that people started saying marijuana is bad during the era of the Civil Rights movement because black people liked to smoke it , the reasoning being that saying it...

Doctors also said at one point (even the surgeon general!) that tobacco/cigarettes aren't bad for you (even that they are good for you), that HGH/steroids don't improve strength/athletic performance, and doctors even prescribed heroin to people addicted to morphine. Doctors are always behind...