Cholesterol & Sebum Production -what Are Your Thoughts?

[DutUserCanada]

i have done some reading on sebum and what causes it. While our hormones control sebum, I have read (random studies on Google) that eating foods that are high in cholesterol increases sebum production. I actually think hair loss is related to issues those with acne suffer with.

Personally, I find when I have a low cholesterol diet (avoiding fatty meat, avoiding eggs, dairy, etc) actually makes my scalp and skin much less oily.

Anyone experimented with this before?

I'll try to find some studies and post them soon if I can.

 

[abcdefg]

How would you explain the thousands of men in prisons that eat the same thing everyday for decades that still have the patterns of hair loss and sebum production as the rest of us? Id assume anyway. Also many athletes are bald that do not consume much cholesterol.
Maybe it helps a little anything is possible, but its certainly not as simple as 1 dietary factor that controls male pattern baldness or sebum production. There are just too many groups of men that male pattern baldness affects all equally for it to be a diet thing.
male pattern baldness kicks in as you get older with increasing frequency when nothing changes with someones diet. As you get older if anything most peoples diet get better not worse.

 

[buckthorn]

How would you explain the thousands of men in prisons that eat the same thing everyday for decades that still have the patterns of hair loss and sebum production as the rest of us? Id assume anyway. Also many athletes are bald that do not consume much cholesterol.
Maybe it helps a little anything is possible, but its certainly not as simple as 1 dietary factor that controls male pattern baldness or sebum production. There are just too many groups of men that male pattern baldness affects all equally for it to be a diet thing.
male pattern baldness kicks in as you get older with increasing frequency when nothing changes with someones diet. As you get older if anything most peoples diet get better not worse.

not to mention all the vegans / vegetarians that exhibit the same pattern, or simply just people that eat super healthy that get male pattern baldness. idk... maybe male pattern baldness is caused by hats.

 

[bridgeburn]

maybe male pattern baldness is caused by hats.

Everything causes male pattern baldness

 

[bridgeburn]

i have done some reading on sebum and what causes it. While our hormones control sebum, I have read (random studies on Google) that eating foods that are high in cholesterol increases sebum production. I actually think hair loss is related to issues those with acne suffer with.

Personally, I find when I have a low cholesterol diet (avoiding fatty meat, avoiding eggs, dairy, etc) actually makes my scalp and skin much less oily.

Anyone experimented with this before?

I'll try to find some studies and post them soon if I can.

Cholesterol gets converted into various hormones