Eating soy products may slow down hair loss

[hairloss18]

http://www.newstarget.com/001047.html

New research published in the journal Biology of Reproduction reveals that consuming soy milk and other soy products could reduce hair loss and male pattern baldness. How? When the body breaks down isoflavones from soy products, one of the resulting compounds is equol, which blocks a form of testosterone called DHT that has been linked with hair loss and baldness. The hair loss prescription drug, Propecia, works in much the same way by blocking the conversion of testosterone into DHT.

 

[Greg1]

BUT soy is NOT the great cure-all that it was thought to be either!

Greg

 

[gonna_win]

I doubt very much that drinking soy will turn Dr Phil's head into John Kerry's. Still it may be worth a try, it may slow down baldness which would help when combining that with things like the big 3. If not then atleast it's good for you.

 

[rico24]

equol

Equol could be promising, but only one-third of people have the ability to breakdown the soy isoflavones into equol. So equol needs to be isolated and put into a pill form to really see the effects of it.

heres an interesting link
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/84/98308.htm