Interesting Question - How Much Can You Affect Your Hair Loss?

[Raphael13]

So this question popped up in my head. Lets say you are programmed by genetics to lose 60% of your hair by the age of 50. How much do you guys think you are able to do or prevent by changing your habits. So lets say if you start eating well, use good products, maybe taking supplements (no finasteride etc) do you think you would be able to naturally reduce it to 30-40 % or do you think that if you are programmed to lose x % amount of hair you will do it, no matter what you do?

 

[BetaBoy]

Unless your five a day is laced with AA's the only thing eating well will prevent, is you getting fat. I mean sh*t, you've got a better chance of keeping your hair if you get fat - fat increases aromatase, oestrogen kills T.

 

[Seeker988]

IMO if someone is destined to lose his hair due to male pattern baldness,then no amount of diet,exercise or lifestyle change will be able to stop it as you're genetically predisposed to lose your hair due to androgens. Granted that the diet may strengthen the existing hair but it won't stop the progressive weakening of the follicle. On the other hand,I think that lifestyle changes might improve the hair quality or thickness if hairloss is due to general ageing process as there is nothing that's internally f*****g up your follicles.

 

[Runninghair]

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[Raphael13]

This theory is a silly one.

Remember the important fact here.. the body does not recognise hairloss as a negative trait. Therefore if you eat and live 100% healthy so that your body is performing and expressing its genetics to the best it can.. then its simple common sense that it will not stop you losing hair as losing hair is not a health related factor.. infact you will probably lose the hair quicker if the body working at its most efficient lol

Actually not that silly, however! If I'm not mistaken, the dht robs your hair follicles of protein and vitamins and all of this important stuff in order for it to keep growing, so wouldnt an intake of these things maybe reduce it to a point or maybe delay it? Then again we know so little about hair and hair loss. We know what causes it and so on, but its still a very unclear area.

 

[AmericanHairlines90]

Actually not that silly, however! If I'm not mistaken, the dht robs your hair follicles of protein and vitamins and all of this important stuff in order for it to keep growing, so wouldnt an intake of these things maybe reduce it to a point or maybe delay it? Then again we know so little about hair and hair loss. We know what causes it and so on, but its still a very unclear area.

DHT is a very powerful androgen that wouldn’t be inhibited by a healthy lifestyle. It wouldn’t matter if you ate how you were supposed to and exercised like there’s no tomorrow. Matter of life fact exercise raises T/DHT levels. Even fat people with an excess of calories and nutrients and who live a sedentary lifestyle go bald. If you are sensitive to DHT it will act on your hair regardless. DHT is also something that changes throughout the day and with that it effects your body more or less in relation. In my personal opinion and experience it would have no effect. If it was that easy we’d all be doing it.
I live a very healthy lifestyle, I exercise and I’m pretty fit. That didn’t stop my hairloss from getting worse. But yet again we’re all different and react differently to things. So if you feel like you have a good handle on your hair through lifestyle and you’re maintaining, I’d recommend staying with that routine. I would assume though that you’re not that sensitive to DHT as some other people are.