Im hardcore into lifting weights, ive taken, creatine, glutamine, fat burners, whey protein and and whole bunch of other supplements. Ive been on very strict calorie controlled diets. Ive done alot of cutting and bulking both gaining and losing large amounts of weight in a short time frame. Ive done massive amounts cardio both low intensity and high intensity (HIIT) training techniques. Ive trained for 6 days a week 3-4 months at a time, doing extreme lifting, squats, dead lifts, heavy bench presses.. EVERYTHING! and lots of periods in between of poor diet and no exercise. Ive done it all! And in this regard and I can only speak of my personal experience of losing hair and lifting weights, coz i have struggled with it for a long time on decideing whether its been positive or a negative experience for me. And at certain times in the past I felt it has made me lose hair and other times ive thought its actually helped in maintaining my hair through healthy living. I dont want to drag this on forever but this is my opinion after 5-6 years of bodybuilding.
1. Creatine definately increses hairloss
2. Glutamine is safe in small doses ie: mixed within the whey protein, but in large doeses it increases hairloss in my opinion.
3. Whey protein on its own is perfectly safe and does not effect hairloss. I have 3 serves a day.
4. I think squats increase hairloss. This is what i noticed when i was doing intense squats (so much that i could barely walk after, it works the whole body) and releases to much growth hormone which causes hairloss.
5. Besides squats every other weight lifting excercise is fine, and doesnt cause hairloss. Why would anyone wanna work on their legs anyway? I work on my upper body almost exclusively. I do some calve work too.
6. Lifting weights in general is healthy for your hair and definetly does not increase hairloss.
7. Long cadio sessions like marthon running and anything over 7 miles a day causes your hair to thin in diffuse manner. To much stress hormone is realeased. Stick to under an hour cardio sessions. Other than that its good for ur hair and skin.
8. Multi vitamins with zinc everyday cause more hairloss. You dont need them everyday. Only take a half everyday or 1 every second day is quite enough.
9. Eating a diet to low in fat increases hairloss, you need to have at least 40grams of fat a day for ur hair to remain healthy.
10. Extremelly low calorie diets like crash diets like under 1200 calories a day also causes hairloss.
Ok thats all i can think of now. This is my own personal experience after years of lifting and dieting. So dont can me if you disagree with me. thanks