Drinking and Hairloss

[EasyEd]

I don't know if there is a scientific relation, but when I drink, my hair looks like sh*t afterwards. This past weekend was a holiday weekend and I partied a lot on Saturday and Sunday night and on Monday, I shed badly and my hair looked really thin and disgusting. This is not the first time this has happened. For the past few years, my hair has looked awful on the few days after I've drank a lot of alcohol. Anybody else experience this?

 

[Guest]

Yes,, but it might just be the alcohol leaving your brain making you realise about your hair.. Just like with girls, they get more pretty when u drunk.. maybe your hair start to look more acceptable too

 

[brevardo]

Easy Ed- I think that you are exactly correct as my hair has been looking very satisfactory for the past month up until about 10 days ago where is seems very limp and just won't go the way that I want it to. The one thing that I have been doing an awful lot the past 10 days has been drinking. I also wondered about this several times over the past few years. I really believe that alcohol must do something adverse to the hair follicle.

 

[Aplunk1]

Guys,
it's typical of human nature to blame other things for our GENETIC hairloss.

Really, alcohol in moderation, should have no bearing on your hair

 

[Aplunk1]

Scientologists claim that EVERYTHING is inside your head, including balding.

But who listens to them?

Really, hairloss is a genetic predisposition.

 

[science-jay]

I don't know if there is a scientific relation, but when I drink, my hair looks like $#iT afterwards. This past weekend was a holiday weekend and I partied a lot on Saturday and Sunday night and on Monday, I shed badly and my hair looked really thin and disgusting. This is not the first time this has happened. For the past few years, my hair has looked awful on the few days after I've drank a lot of alcohol. Anybody else experience this?

Drinking beer results in a strong rise of blood glucose, the same for eating starch, chips and sugar. High blood glucose is related to a drop in SHBG and other hormonal changes. A lowering in SHBG makes it possible for more testosteron to be converted to DHT, what we ofcourse know, could increase male pattern baldness.

 

[EasyEd]

Guys,
it's typical of human nature to blame other things for our GENETIC hairloss.

Really, alcohol in moderation, should have no bearing on your hair

I completly agree. I'm certainly not going to blame my hair loss on drinking, I just feel as if it could've caused a shed or weakened my hair a little bit. Trust me, if drinking cause male pattern baldness, my father wouldn't have a single hair on his body.

 

[Def]

Excessive drinking isn't good for anything. However, there's obviously no direct link between alcohol consumption and male pattern baldness. Like anything that's bad for your health, excessive drinking won't help your male pattern baldness - but just look around at all the alcoholics with full heads of hair at 70!

Now I usually have one to two big nights on the booze each week and I think that if anything causes your hair to appear to fall and look worse after drinking is:

1) your minds eye - general depressed, morning after, hung over point of view;

2) dehydration - could account for the frazzled look;

3) having a poor quality of sleep and tossing and turning all night (which can then contribute to 1);

4) going to sleep with product in your hair.

Def

 

[holly]

I read this article awhile ago, but an interesting tidbit regarding drinking and Androgenetic Alopecia:


The incidence of male pattern (androgenic) baldness has been found to be the highest among college professors, and lowest among skid-row winos. Winos are also known to have the cleanest arteries in the world (which of course doesn’t save them from dying of cirrhosis of the liver). Could there be a connection? Let me remind you that alcohol is an excellent vasodilator -- there is perhaps nothing quite like alcohol for dilating those peripheral blood vessels. And vasodilatation implies nitric oxide release.

http://www.antiaging.com/cyberhealth/CyberHealth_10.htm

 

[michael barry]

Holly,
Excessive alchohol abuse also sees the body make about half the testosterone it normally does. Drinking has a feminizing effect over time. Many real hard liquor drunks get skinny as a rail and lose most of their muscle mass. Heavy beer drinkers, due to the much lower volume of alchohol in beer, still eat much more solid food (they dont lose their appetite so badly), so they dont waste away............................