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This is exactly why I believe that your diet can have some influence in your hair loss, even if it's a little. I've read a couple of texts which said that hair loss in Japan has been increasing since WW2, because they've incorporated a more 'western type' of diet. An example:
Japanese research may cover these topics but also is more likely to cover the increase in sebum (scalp oil) production caused by DHT in the scalp, and the increase of Pityrosporon ovale, a pathogenic yeast which has been linked to dandruff and eczema, and which feeds off of sebum. Issues related to diet are also more likely to be covered. Possibly this is because male pattern baldness has increased very sharply in Japan since the end of World War II along with an increase in fatty foods and average height, focusing public attention on various lifestyle differences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_loss
I agree that the genetics issue is the predominant and most important, but there's no doubt that other factors can have some influence.
chewbaca said:take the case of Japan, and china, over there their diet mainly consist of seafood...they also do have moden processed food, but certainly i see people over there balding too......
This is exactly why I believe that your diet can have some influence in your hair loss, even if it's a little. I've read a couple of texts which said that hair loss in Japan has been increasing since WW2, because they've incorporated a more 'western type' of diet. An example:
Japanese research may cover these topics but also is more likely to cover the increase in sebum (scalp oil) production caused by DHT in the scalp, and the increase of Pityrosporon ovale, a pathogenic yeast which has been linked to dandruff and eczema, and which feeds off of sebum. Issues related to diet are also more likely to be covered. Possibly this is because male pattern baldness has increased very sharply in Japan since the end of World War II along with an increase in fatty foods and average height, focusing public attention on various lifestyle differences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_loss
I agree that the genetics issue is the predominant and most important, but there's no doubt that other factors can have some influence.