Recent content by DarkDays

Endocrinologist Ray Peat is adamant that PUFA in general(Omega 3 and 6) are bad mojo and aren't really essential to human survival. He even quotes medical literature stating that EFA deficiency can easily be fixed with B vitamins. This guy has been helping women stabilize their hormones for...

If you're brushing and putting too much force then you might do some damage, but brushing, especially with the right brush for your hair is not bad. The reason everybody got so excited about "brushing makes you go bald" thing is that brushing tends to do two things(one is natural, the other is...

I might add, higher prolactin levels are usually associated with either pregnancy or hypothyroidism. As is well known, hypothyroidism is well known as a cause of hair loss, the loss even following the "pattern" we see in both sexes. Now, if you read around and stumble upon pages like...

Quick search and most results say that Copper IUDs can cause increased serum prolactin. Since I doubt you are using IUD I can't really say whether copper is a factor, although copper is leeched from the IUD into a woman's body. However, Zinc deficiency is usually caused by too much copper. You...

I know it is at most anecdotal, but I have been browsing paleo diet forums and some claim that they started regrowing hair after going low-carb paleo. Of course, that hasn't happened for all so the few threads I've seen popping up about it are divided. Works for some, but not all.

I think people are forgetting the prolactin connection(most likely because people have a boner for DHT). Masturbation increases prolactin and sex does so fourfold. Prolactin has been shown(albeit in mouse models) to inhibit hair growth. Basically Prolactin is a very common reason women lose...

Which is why I mentioned that I am neither for or against, just wanted to mention what might be happening in the backdrop. Of course, some athletes swear by the 7 day rule of abstinence as there is a measurable increase of testosterone on the 7th day. Since I have no testosterone(estrogen...

Although I am not here to support or lambast the ejaculation theory I will mention this: Prolactin has been show to inhibit hair growth in mice. It moves more and more hairs into the resting phase and keeps them there while the prolactin levels are high. Prolactin increases during ejaculation...

After seeing "brain cooling" mentioned one too many times I just have to say this: Anybody who thinks brain cooling has any reason behind it is a sexist misogynistic pig, I am sorry to say. If brain cooling were a real factor women would be suffering in greater numbers of balding, if not equal...

Anyone who thinks DHT and sensitivity to DHT in the hair follicle happens in a vacuum and is not affected by the entire bio-system is a person that thinks people are simple Duplos, not forgetting the same person believes men and women are completely different species(either that person has never...

Fun fact, most people are vitamin D deficient. The Marshall Protocol is utter hogwash and shouldn't be taken seriously. I am all for alternative medicine but the Marshall Protocol is insane. There have been done extensive studies of the benefits of vitamin D and in majority of cases an...

Found this paper: Potassium softens vascular endothelium and increases nitric oxide release http://www.pnas.org/content/106/8/2829.abstract

One of the things I have been looking at is potassium and how it relates to cardiovascular health. The biggest reason is because of the product TRX2 and why they thought of using potassium(it is a common substance so it is a weird choice). Reading more into the literature of potassium I have...

What if, and this is only a wild swing, the reason why it is harder to get hair back that has been lost longer, and despite treatment, is because of atherosclerosis. Remember that there are studies showing that those who have pattern baldness(as I think this applies to both genders in more ways...

Let me guess, they knew beforehand that DHT was causing this without any testing because science is based on absolute knowledge beforehand. You may laugh, but most discoveries were based on accidental discoveries because science isn't known beforehand regardless of what you may believe. The...