Hi there! I am currently 27 years old and was steadily losing my hair from about age 16 until 25 (nearly 26). For the past two years since I implemented the solution I’m about to share with you, my hair has not receded or thinned any further. I have managed to find a natural nutritional-based solution to COMPLETELY HALT hair loss. A lot of you won't believe what I’m about to tell you, and that’s understandable, but let me assure you that my advice is genuine. This method works. Unfortunately, you will not regrow much hair – at least I haven’t regrown much – but your hair loss will stop dead in its tracks. And if you’re addressing your hair loss issue early enough, then you’ll be able to maintain what you have for the rest of your life. My biggest regret is not discovering this solution sooner. By the time I implemented this solution and gave it a chance, I already had a badly receded hairline, thin crown and diffuse thinning on top. But for anyone reading this who is young and just beginning their hair loss battle, you need to give this solution a chance! I am not trying to promote or sell any products. I will not mention any brand names, chemicals, laser helmets, topical solutions or anything of the sort. I am not trying to make money. I’m only trying to help you.
My hair loss is definitely androgenic alopecia. My father is completely bald and has been since his early 40’s. He has seen the progression of my hair loss and said it’s identical to what he experienced. There’s no doubt in my mind that my hair loss was inherited from my dad’s side of my genetics and is the same cause of hair loss that most (if not all) of you are experiencing.
Real quick, I want to make a comment about this website. Do you see the banner at the top of the hairlosstalk.com home page? What do you see? A bald guy laying down with his woman, while she’s staring off in the distance looking sad and dissatisfied, as if she’s yearning for someone with hair. This picture, along with a lot of other content on this site, are simply there to make you fear your hair loss. This helps convince you to spend your money on various chemicals to combat the problem, but believe me, the root cause of your hair loss is not due to the lack of any chemical in your body. Chemicals may postpone your hair loss, but they will hurt your body in other ways in the interim. The root cause of your hair loss is nutritional! We are consuming something that is not meant to be in our diets, and those of us with the hair loss gene are the ones suffering the consequences!
Also, I do not know the science behind why this solution works. It just does. Trust me and try it.
It All Comes Down to Diet
Are you ready for the big secret to stopping hair loss? Well, believe it or not, it all comes down to what you eat. A friend of mine told me about a lifestyle called “raw vegan†that was supposed to be the absolute healthiest way to eat. Raw vegans only eat raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. These raw foods are said to have living enzymes in them, which are proteins that aid in digestion and other functions of metabolism. Cooked foods are lacking many enzymes because the cooking process destroys them (along with other nutrients) and your body is forced to create its own enzymes for digestion, which requires energy. Therefore, when you eat cooked food you are spending energy to receive energy, which is counter-productive. I don’t know if this is all true or not, but I decided to give raw veganism a shot to improve my general health. Little did I know, it would end up having a positive impact on my hair, among many other things.
After only a few weeks of following the raw vegan lifestyle, I noticed multiple benefits: I had lost some weight and had ab definition for the first time in my life, my energy was through the roof, and most amazingly, my hair felt stronger than ever! It was as if my hair follicles were on steroids. Although I had a badly receded hairline and thin crown, my stronger-feeling hair made it easier to style and “cover up†how badly receded and thinned it was. It gave my confidence a little jolt and made me happier overall. That was my first clue that the raw vegan lifestyle was helping.
Time went on and I continued my raw vegan ways. Sure, I cheated on this lifestyle now and then, like at birthday parties and holidays. If people made me food, whether it was raw or cooked or vegan or non-vegan, I didn’t care. I did not want to disrespect people by declining their generosity. So to be accurate, I ate raw vegan when I was preparing food for myself (or my girlfriend – now fiancé - was preparing it), which was about 99% of the time. But at any special occasions like birthday parties, barbecues, weddings, vacations, etc., I did not hesitate to eat whatever I wanted. Before I knew it, I had been eating primarily raw vegan for a year and my hair loss had not progressed at all in that time. That’s when I realized I was onto something.
Narrowing Down the Culprit
Once I realized that my adoption of a raw vegan diet had halted my hair loss, I began experimenting with my diet by including one new food at time until I found the culprit of hair loss. It took a while, but beyond any doubt, I have narrowed down the perpetrator to white flour. Yes, you heard me right. Flour. Grains that are heavily processed to the point of being a fine powder; so fine, it literally rises into the air like smoke, never to fall back to the ground. That is the reason that you’re going bald, my friend. Flour. So from this point on, your view of flour should be that of the devil reincarnate. Avoid it at all costs!
After eating high raw vegan for over a year, I made white bread a part of my daily diet for one week. In that week, my feeling of strong hair diminished completely. My follicles felt weak again and my hair was difficult to style. That itchy feeling of weak hair on my scalp started eating away at my confidence again. After that week, I removed white bread from my diet again and went back to only raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, which provided immediate relief of my weak hair. Within days my hair felt strong again.
So why does white flour affect some of us and not others? I don’t know. My guess is that those of us with the hair loss gene have some sort of sensitivity to white flour, which causes it to increase our DHT production. That’s a wild guess, and probably completely incorrect, but I honestly don’t care. Who knows why flour weakens hair for some people? All that matters is that we know to avoid it.
My Recommendations to Fellow Balding Brothers
So what do I recommend? Well, for the sake of general health, my first recommendation is to go high raw vegan, meaning a high percentage of what you eat is raw fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds, and completely exclude flour products from your diet. There are plenty of books and websites that explain how to sustain a raw vegan lifestyle. For example, here’s what I ate today:
Breakfast: Smoothie (3 bananas, 1 pt. blueberries, ice, water) and a bowl of grapes
Lunch: Pineapple slices, dried figs and a couple bananas
Dinner: A large salad (2 hearts of romaine, 1 cucumber, 1 tomato, 1 celery stalk, 1 orange bell pepper) with a lot of home-made vegan creamy garlic dressing (blend 1 cup cashews, a little water, juice of 1 lemon, 2 garlic cloves and 2 green onions)
Dessert: fresh dates
If you absolutely cannot bear the thought of giving up meat, dairy, etc., then my next recommendation is to just cut out all bread and flour products. This means no bread for sandwiches, subs, hoagies, burgers, brats and hotdogs; no flour tortillas; no croutons in your salads; no breaded meat (fried chicken or fish, for example); no crackers, cakes, pastries, and so on. It’s quite shocking how many “foods†out there contain flour. That’s why raw veganism is so great. The fruits and veggies are PACKED with vitamins and minerals to keep you healthy, and your narrow list of options will automatically exclude all flour from your diet.
Once you go raw vegan or eliminate flour, you hair loss will stop. I then recommend you buy a natural hair brush and start brushing your head regularly. Notice I said “head†and not “hair†for the brushing. The goal is to brush your scalp to stimulate blood flow. I recommend daily brushing of at least 100 strokes, but more is fine. After you brush your head, your scalp should feel a little numb and tingle a little. This is blood stimulating your hair follicles. It can stimulate new growth of dormant hairs that aren’t completely dead yet. You can also do scalp massage and a variety of other techniques to stimulate this blood flow. Do some research of various techniques online.
One More Thing…
I want to explain where I’m at now with my hair loss. After I had halted my hair loss with the raw vegan diet, I had a conversation with my fiancé about my hair. I told her how although my hair had stopped thinning, I felt like a lot of damage had been done through the years (especially to my hairline), and I was thinking of shaving it down to the skin like my old man. It was early summer this past year, I believe late May or early June, so I decided to try a buzz cut for the summer and took it down to an eighth of an inch with a hair buzzer I bought from Walgreens. Long story short, I think I’ve found my new permanent hairstyle. My fiancé loves my buzzed head. She said I’m “incredibly sexy†with a buzz cut. All my friends say the look fits me well too. And even some women at work have been giving me looks. I guess the point I’m trying to make here is that if your hair loss is badly progressed, the best thing you can do for yourself is buzz your head because it gives uniformity to your hair. Rather than looking like a young man trying to desperately hold on to what’s left of your hair, you’ll instead look like a proud and confident man who is not affected by his hair loss. I also recommend growing some facial hair if you can, and adopting a good workout routine that incorporates weight lifting as well as cardiovascular exercise (circuit training is a quick way to tackle both of these). Buy form-fitting clothes that show your physique and walk around proud of your new buzzed head. A lot of ladies these days are attracted to a bald guy with a good physique. Trust me.
I hope this information is helpful. If anyone who reads this gives raw veganism a shot, or even just eliminates flour from their diet, then my mission is accomplished.
I wish you all the best (and a full head of hair).
-Dullahan
My hair loss is definitely androgenic alopecia. My father is completely bald and has been since his early 40’s. He has seen the progression of my hair loss and said it’s identical to what he experienced. There’s no doubt in my mind that my hair loss was inherited from my dad’s side of my genetics and is the same cause of hair loss that most (if not all) of you are experiencing.
Real quick, I want to make a comment about this website. Do you see the banner at the top of the hairlosstalk.com home page? What do you see? A bald guy laying down with his woman, while she’s staring off in the distance looking sad and dissatisfied, as if she’s yearning for someone with hair. This picture, along with a lot of other content on this site, are simply there to make you fear your hair loss. This helps convince you to spend your money on various chemicals to combat the problem, but believe me, the root cause of your hair loss is not due to the lack of any chemical in your body. Chemicals may postpone your hair loss, but they will hurt your body in other ways in the interim. The root cause of your hair loss is nutritional! We are consuming something that is not meant to be in our diets, and those of us with the hair loss gene are the ones suffering the consequences!
Also, I do not know the science behind why this solution works. It just does. Trust me and try it.
It All Comes Down to Diet
Are you ready for the big secret to stopping hair loss? Well, believe it or not, it all comes down to what you eat. A friend of mine told me about a lifestyle called “raw vegan†that was supposed to be the absolute healthiest way to eat. Raw vegans only eat raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. These raw foods are said to have living enzymes in them, which are proteins that aid in digestion and other functions of metabolism. Cooked foods are lacking many enzymes because the cooking process destroys them (along with other nutrients) and your body is forced to create its own enzymes for digestion, which requires energy. Therefore, when you eat cooked food you are spending energy to receive energy, which is counter-productive. I don’t know if this is all true or not, but I decided to give raw veganism a shot to improve my general health. Little did I know, it would end up having a positive impact on my hair, among many other things.
After only a few weeks of following the raw vegan lifestyle, I noticed multiple benefits: I had lost some weight and had ab definition for the first time in my life, my energy was through the roof, and most amazingly, my hair felt stronger than ever! It was as if my hair follicles were on steroids. Although I had a badly receded hairline and thin crown, my stronger-feeling hair made it easier to style and “cover up†how badly receded and thinned it was. It gave my confidence a little jolt and made me happier overall. That was my first clue that the raw vegan lifestyle was helping.
Time went on and I continued my raw vegan ways. Sure, I cheated on this lifestyle now and then, like at birthday parties and holidays. If people made me food, whether it was raw or cooked or vegan or non-vegan, I didn’t care. I did not want to disrespect people by declining their generosity. So to be accurate, I ate raw vegan when I was preparing food for myself (or my girlfriend – now fiancé - was preparing it), which was about 99% of the time. But at any special occasions like birthday parties, barbecues, weddings, vacations, etc., I did not hesitate to eat whatever I wanted. Before I knew it, I had been eating primarily raw vegan for a year and my hair loss had not progressed at all in that time. That’s when I realized I was onto something.
Narrowing Down the Culprit
Once I realized that my adoption of a raw vegan diet had halted my hair loss, I began experimenting with my diet by including one new food at time until I found the culprit of hair loss. It took a while, but beyond any doubt, I have narrowed down the perpetrator to white flour. Yes, you heard me right. Flour. Grains that are heavily processed to the point of being a fine powder; so fine, it literally rises into the air like smoke, never to fall back to the ground. That is the reason that you’re going bald, my friend. Flour. So from this point on, your view of flour should be that of the devil reincarnate. Avoid it at all costs!
After eating high raw vegan for over a year, I made white bread a part of my daily diet for one week. In that week, my feeling of strong hair diminished completely. My follicles felt weak again and my hair was difficult to style. That itchy feeling of weak hair on my scalp started eating away at my confidence again. After that week, I removed white bread from my diet again and went back to only raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, which provided immediate relief of my weak hair. Within days my hair felt strong again.
So why does white flour affect some of us and not others? I don’t know. My guess is that those of us with the hair loss gene have some sort of sensitivity to white flour, which causes it to increase our DHT production. That’s a wild guess, and probably completely incorrect, but I honestly don’t care. Who knows why flour weakens hair for some people? All that matters is that we know to avoid it.
My Recommendations to Fellow Balding Brothers
So what do I recommend? Well, for the sake of general health, my first recommendation is to go high raw vegan, meaning a high percentage of what you eat is raw fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds, and completely exclude flour products from your diet. There are plenty of books and websites that explain how to sustain a raw vegan lifestyle. For example, here’s what I ate today:
Breakfast: Smoothie (3 bananas, 1 pt. blueberries, ice, water) and a bowl of grapes
Lunch: Pineapple slices, dried figs and a couple bananas
Dinner: A large salad (2 hearts of romaine, 1 cucumber, 1 tomato, 1 celery stalk, 1 orange bell pepper) with a lot of home-made vegan creamy garlic dressing (blend 1 cup cashews, a little water, juice of 1 lemon, 2 garlic cloves and 2 green onions)
Dessert: fresh dates
If you absolutely cannot bear the thought of giving up meat, dairy, etc., then my next recommendation is to just cut out all bread and flour products. This means no bread for sandwiches, subs, hoagies, burgers, brats and hotdogs; no flour tortillas; no croutons in your salads; no breaded meat (fried chicken or fish, for example); no crackers, cakes, pastries, and so on. It’s quite shocking how many “foods†out there contain flour. That’s why raw veganism is so great. The fruits and veggies are PACKED with vitamins and minerals to keep you healthy, and your narrow list of options will automatically exclude all flour from your diet.
Once you go raw vegan or eliminate flour, you hair loss will stop. I then recommend you buy a natural hair brush and start brushing your head regularly. Notice I said “head†and not “hair†for the brushing. The goal is to brush your scalp to stimulate blood flow. I recommend daily brushing of at least 100 strokes, but more is fine. After you brush your head, your scalp should feel a little numb and tingle a little. This is blood stimulating your hair follicles. It can stimulate new growth of dormant hairs that aren’t completely dead yet. You can also do scalp massage and a variety of other techniques to stimulate this blood flow. Do some research of various techniques online.
One More Thing…
I want to explain where I’m at now with my hair loss. After I had halted my hair loss with the raw vegan diet, I had a conversation with my fiancé about my hair. I told her how although my hair had stopped thinning, I felt like a lot of damage had been done through the years (especially to my hairline), and I was thinking of shaving it down to the skin like my old man. It was early summer this past year, I believe late May or early June, so I decided to try a buzz cut for the summer and took it down to an eighth of an inch with a hair buzzer I bought from Walgreens. Long story short, I think I’ve found my new permanent hairstyle. My fiancé loves my buzzed head. She said I’m “incredibly sexy†with a buzz cut. All my friends say the look fits me well too. And even some women at work have been giving me looks. I guess the point I’m trying to make here is that if your hair loss is badly progressed, the best thing you can do for yourself is buzz your head because it gives uniformity to your hair. Rather than looking like a young man trying to desperately hold on to what’s left of your hair, you’ll instead look like a proud and confident man who is not affected by his hair loss. I also recommend growing some facial hair if you can, and adopting a good workout routine that incorporates weight lifting as well as cardiovascular exercise (circuit training is a quick way to tackle both of these). Buy form-fitting clothes that show your physique and walk around proud of your new buzzed head. A lot of ladies these days are attracted to a bald guy with a good physique. Trust me.
I hope this information is helpful. If anyone who reads this gives raw veganism a shot, or even just eliminates flour from their diet, then my mission is accomplished.
I wish you all the best (and a full head of hair).
-Dullahan
