MILK does a body good! what about your hair?

[dirtrider67]

i used to love milk as a kid but stopped drinking it when i was about 19. and that's when i started to notice my hairloss. so if milk does a body good? shouldn't it do good for hair?

any milk drinkers out there loosing their hair? could cutting milk out of your diet be a contributor to hair loss at such a young age?

what's your take on this?

 

[Hawaii male]

I don't think it contributes to hair loss.

 

[HARM1]

i read that in the end milk rises DHT levels. i read this in a acne site

 

[abcdefg]

The problem with things like saying milk raises DHT is it might. It might raise it .00000000001 percent which by all accounts is absolutely insignificant. They never tell you how much, or any details of the study. Without those I can say anything I want if I did any amount of research whether is was completely wrong or not. You cant believe everything you read especially with the human body. If theres one branch where science sucks more than nearly anything else we apply science to its probably the human body. We just dont understand it well at all.

 

[Wezz]

well i drink milk almost everyday and havent seen any improvement or effects on hair :?

 

[Packers]

Dairy milk is always something I've wondered about because of all the hormones they inject into the cows, etc. I know Milk is a big topic, as someone has already stated, on a lot of acne boards. Some people say they drink a ton of milk and don't suffer any breakouts while others swear that stopping cow's milk and switching to an alternative (soy, goat's, almond, etc) has made a dramatic difference. It's tought to say how much of a role milk plays, if any in baldness but I think it's something we should definately look into.

 

[HARM1]

Dairy milk is always something I've wondered about because of all the hormones they inject into the cows, etc. I know Milk is a big topic, as someone has already stated, on a lot of acne boards. Some people say they drink a ton of milk and don't suffer any breakouts while others swear that stopping cow's milk and switching to an alternative (soy, goat's, almond, etc) has made a dramatic difference. It's tought to say how much of a role milk plays, if any in baldness but I think it's something we should definately look into.

Could you link me to such acne bords?

 

[Packers]

http://healthboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=409935

 

[bubka]

those bovine hormones cannot help grow hair

95% of the words adult population is lactose intolerant for a reasons, adults should not be drinking freaking milk

soy milk, now there is a viable alternative (i drink it, Unsweetened Silk in green carton) plus some evidence of the phytoestrogens and benefits to hair

 

[Felk]

those bovine hormones cannot help grow hair

95% of the words adult population is lactose intolerant for a reasons, adults should not be drinking freaking milk

soy milk, now there is a viable alternative (i drink it, Unsweetened Silk in green carton) plus some evidence of the phytoestrogens and benefits to hair

I heard 80%

Though i like the taste of soy milk, one study showed it lowered men's sperm count (ie the phytoestrogens/isaflavones)

Though i don't believe all the stuff about it giving you cancer, thyroid, whatever (i mean it was examined by the leading cancer council of the world, and all they said was "it's not as good for you as we first thought" not "it's bad for you") I think that's done by dairy farmers.

Though it's hideously processed. I always laugh when hippies who only eat natural food opt for soy milk. They think an inedible bean converted into milk, is natural?!?

 

[techprof]

I am pretty sure it is less than 80%. Almost entire India (1/6 th of the entire world population perhaps) drinks cow's milk minimum twice a day. Perhaps the gene, race and ethnicity decides these tolerance and allergy issues.

(When I first heard allergy to peanuts, I laughed at it. When I saw a kid in person avoiding it, that is when I accepted it).

 

[tembo]

I know some Indians who are lactose intolerant and many Chinese and Africans.

Anyway, the actual figure is probably less than 30 percent of the world being lactose intolerant. Still quite surprising to read that if you are not lactose intolerant yourself.

 

[bubka]

I am pretty sure it is less than 80%. Almost entire India (1/6 th of the entire world population perhaps) drinks cow's milk minimum twice a day. Perhaps the gene, race and ethnicity decides these tolerance and allergy issues.

(When I first heard allergy to peanuts, I laughed at it. When I saw a kid in person avoiding it, that is when I accepted it).

do you guys do any freaking research or just pull numbers out of your butt???

in freaking India, they don't even have the human artificial selection (plus hormone) type of cows that produce ridiculous amounts of milk..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance

http://lactoseintolerant.org/02_about.html

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020501/1845.html

http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/reprint/101/4_suppl_1/10S

http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/001681.html

 

[CCS]

lots of people eat soy beans, yet I heard they are inedible. I think to be edible, you have to boil them with meat. The meat neutralizes the phitic acid. all grains have phitic acid, but soy by far has the most, and it can cause problems.

soy protein is processed enough to be edible, but I wonder if any of the good stuff is gone. I eat it for the glutamine and arginine, and eat it with fish.

you can buy whole soy beans in the frozen food isle. people eat them fresh. I thought they could not be eaten that way, but many people do it. are they hurting themselves?

 

[Felk]

Ahem.

My quote (which I didn't pretend to be exact) was by Dr Lindberg of Norway. I don't know if he's referring to such a small degree of lactose intolerance that your "articles" mention. Just like the amount of people who are convinced they have gluten intolerance.

However in the face of wikipedia, i must concede defeat...

 

[CCS]

i spent years drinking 2 gallons of skim milk per week, and the last 4 months not drinking any, and i have not noticed a difference. I just don't want all the hormones and anti-biotics. I think it is healthy aside from that.

 

[bubka]

antibiotics too, forgot about that one CCS

yeah, i buy soy nuts every once in a while at the store, they have hardly any carbs and decent fiber... plus once of the only plant sources on earth will all essential amino acids

 

[techprof]

I am pretty sure it is less than 80%. Almost entire India (1/6 th of the entire world population perhaps) drinks cow's milk minimum twice a day. Perhaps the gene, race and ethnicity decides these tolerance and allergy issues.

(When I first heard allergy to peanuts, I laughed at it. When I saw a kid in person avoiding it, that is when I accepted it).

do you guys do any freaking research or just pull numbers out of your butt???

in freaking India, they don't even have the human artificial selection (plus hormone) type of cows that produce ridiculous amounts of milk..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance

http://lactoseintolerant.org/02_about.html

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020501/1845.html

http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/reprint/101/4_suppl_1/10S

http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/001681.html

bubka I never claimed any % in my post. My claim was that it cannot be 80% as I personally know of majority of Indians drinking milk from the cows. They don't use hormones and the cows in India are not forced to eat meat.

 

[bubka]

OK OK, i see it varies widely in India, depending on genetics and geography

 

[Felk]

What about drinking organic milk?

Surely that would be free from the antibiotics and hormones, no?