In my opinion, DIET is very very important. In everything. It is important for overall health, even for the mental state/disposition.
I know modern medicine ignores it, but ultimately what we eat is what we become, because stuff(substances) from what we eat get in the end to all the cells in the body. I strongly believe that diet is the main cause for all the "modern civilisation diseases" from the western world: heart failure, diabetes, cancer, auto-immune diseases and....wait a minute, even science suspects and there are theories that hairloss can be an auto-immune reaction of our body attacking the hair follicles!
You may say: blabla this is BS, what are your arguments? Well, there are many studies linking bad diet to all the diseases i mentioned above: cancer, diabetes, heart problems. And it is very likely that diet affects hairloss also.
Let me make myself clear what i call inappropriate diet: it is the modern western diet=a diet consisting in:
-excess of refined sugar
-excess of animal fat and even protein!
-lack of enough fruits and vegetables.
To be specific, all of the following: meat (of ANY type, including fish), all dairy products, eggs, every processed product with big amounts of sugar in it, alcohols are, on long term, very very unhealthy and ultimately they lead to the "modern diseases" culminating with cancer!
And they could also lead to hair loss.
Ok, at this point some of you would say: stop with this BS, hairloss is genetic, some people eat a lot of fats and sugar and they have a full head of hair.
And yes, i will say: you're right! But only partially! The mechanism of hairloss has a strong genetic component, of course, if you do not have the gene responsible for hairloss, you will die with a full head of hair. Yes, it would be stupid for me to deny this evident truth. But...there is a but. Even if the underlying cause of hairloss is genetic, i think the unhealthy diet contributes a lot to the actual happening of hairloss. Genes are not 100% decisive about the amount and type of hairloss we have.That's my belief. And what is my basis for this belief? A simple fact: look at the Eastern populations: africans, asians (especially undeveloped countries). How much hairloss do these people have? Minimal! How much heart disease, diabetes, cancer do they have? A very small amount compared to americans or europeans! I pointed it:i refer to undeveloped countries, where the diet is almost entirely based on plants, not on animals or milk. Can we really discard that there could be a strong conection between diet and disease? So they eat plants and have very very low incidence of hairloss or cancer and americans eat a great amount of meat and dairy and they have a very big, continually growing incidence of hairloss and cancer and diabetes and...? Of course, poor countries have their specific diseases due to malnutrinion or lack of sanitation, but they don't have this much hairloss or cancer as americans and western europeans have.
And, another interesting thing , observed even by scientists is the following: there are many asians and africans who migrate from their poor countries to america. And guess what, surprise or not, after 1-2 generations, changing their diet from plant-based food to the traditional american diet with many fats, animal protein and refined sugar, this emigrants begin to get hairloss, cancer, diabetes, etc almost at the same proportion as native americans! Isn't this enough to suggest that diet is way more important in health than genes? and then the western diet makes people sick ?
Same genes, different diets (in the case of emigrants that come to western countries and adopt the modern diet) resulting in different disease incidence.
In the light of these facts, shouldn't the idea that the genetic predisposition to hairloss could be triggered or its expression made worse by our "modern diet"?
Another thing that i noticed:i live in a "semi-developed country", where until 1990 we had a communist regime, where meat, dairy consumption was much lower than today. You simply could't find enough food at that times, expecially animal food. I look at the young men who are balding. And then i look at their dads! Of course in the majority of cases the dads are not full heads, but..i've seen many cases in which the young got bald much worse and earlier in life than his father! But they have the same genes, so? What's the explanation? Father ,60, boy, 30. Boy is almost nw6, father Norwood 3-4 has more hair than the son! A lot more!What the f***? Difference of 30 years in minus and son is way balder than his father?
Let's not forget than even "as close" as 30-40 years ago the number of bald man in their 20s was very small.
Then again, my explanation is: DIET! The father did not consume that much fat, that much sugar, that much animal prrotein beacuse...there were not that easily available 30-40 years ago! But the son did wat? Ate great amounts of fats and sugar at mcdonalds, etc.
So that's why i think even modern medicine makes a HUGE mistake ignoring that the diet influences health to a great extent! There are doctors reccomending cancer patients to "eat everything they desire", what the f***? I don't want to get into conspiration theories, but day after day my belief that modern medicine doesn't really want to cure us, instead it wants to take our money and protect the pharmaceutical companies profits, this belief is stronger! Don't you see medicine heads to a complete failure? We don't have a significantly better cancer treatment than 50 years ago, but the cancer incidence has grown like hell! Medicine does a big mistake: it doesn't focus on understanding the REAL CAUSE of ANY disease! Instead, it focuses on treating the symptoms with unhealthy drugs that seem to solve the symptoms, they only SEEM to treat a disease, for a short time, but their side effects cause another problems and diseases, on the long run! Doctors are very arrogant and vain, they tell you that they studied many many years to get their license, but all they do are only guesses, suppositions, etc, they don't understand the exact causes of the diseases.So i think medicine not only doens't want to really cure us, but it cannot cure us! Because in the most cases of diseases, medical science doens't know the true cause, the exact mechanism of the disease! The medical science is in a great way based on observations and suppositions: the do those "studies" in which all they really do is "mumbo-jumbo": they give some drugs to the mice or whatever they are experimenting on, or even people, and they observe what those drugs SEEM to do...and then they conclude: oh yes, 20 from 100 SEEM to be better, let's go on and market this drug and sell it so we get money. What the f***? this is science? No way! If this is science, than ASTROLOGY is also science, because many people can confirm that what is written in their astrology sign general description is true for them...of course i am kidding, but what's the difference? so we gave the drug to the person, and it seems to work...vs i read my astro sign description and it seems it is true.
And the hairloss domain does the same mistakes.
Of course people born in western countries are almost "brainwashed" from early childhood with the modern dietary myths: that milk is good for bones (calcium) and meat is very good for the protein intake, the body needs much protein, protein is the "building block of tissues and so you need a very big amount daily". These 2 are big lies and the reality is the OPPOSITE: milk and meat are the most unhealthy foods, and many studies showed that they are responsible for all the modern diseases in the western countries. But the truth is not explicitly shouted at every corner, as it should, from two reasons:
-it would dramatically diminish the huge profits of the food industry
-people are taste-dependent, it is very hard for them to quit eating milk and meat.
And by direct consequence, ironically and perverted, the pharmaceutical industry "take its part" from the fact that people are very ill.
So you could think about this more, i don't want to make you quit eating meat or dairy, i just told you my beliefs. But you can do you own experiment: stop eating meat, dairy, eggs, refined sugar, even white bread for an amount of time (1 week or even 1 month) and analyze how you feel! I did it and there was a huge improvement in my physical and mental well-being.
We clog our blood, our arteries , every cell in our bodeis with excessive amount of fat, we make our cells go on a roller-coaster of energy level by the big quantity of refined sugar we eat and then....we wonder why our hair falls? But this could be the way our body tells us that our diet is wrong: we get fat, we get crappy skin (oily, acne, etc), then our hair starts to fall, and we don't stop for a moment to think: wait a minute, why is this happening to me? couldn't it be from the garbage that i eat daily?
Yes, it could be. I strongly believe that it really is the case, without doubt.
But bad skin, acne, hairloss, crappy mental mood is just the beggining! Go on with this bad western diet and "you" are embarked on the train heading...not to NW6 but to the "big boys": diabetes, cancer, heart failure, and all the diseases in the world. You don't believe me? Ok, no problem, you will "experiment" and find the truth on your own!
Well, let me add another "2 cents": it is a well-known fact that bald dudes have a greater risk of prostate cancer, it is told that it is because of the hormones, etc (medicine only SUPPOSE this, it doesn't have a real mechanism or explanation).
And i also remember reading that there are studies linking balding with cardiovascular (heart) disease! But...wait! Is there a real link between heart and hair? It is very unlikely, but it could be, who nows. But i think the link is only the following fact: DIET! Or 3 facts:
-what you eat at breakfast
--what you eat at lunch
-what you eat at thinner
You are what you eat!
The bad diet could be the common cause for both heart failure AND hairloss! And many more:cancer, diabetes, etc...
And to finish, i think the modern medicine has lost its way and is heading to a wrong place! All these expensive chemicals called drugs, all these sophisticated procedures like stem cells, etc, WE as modern civilisation have lost our way! We eat a big amount of CRAP, that our body is not supposed to eat, this crappy food makes us ill and the we "treat" the symptoms of the illness with pill, aka chemicals! And we are happy we got rid of the disease (this rarely happens) or we "keep the disease under control", but in reality we only keep the symptoms under control, and the chemical medicines could make more harm on long-term!
Why dont' we stop eating that crappy food which does only good for a very short time, 5 or 10 or 15 minutes of pleasure of taste, and then we feel bad immediately after all (you have to admit it if you're honest, after a big meal with excess of sugar, fat, animal protein you feel like crap!).so why don't we get on a healthy diet? That could possibly do a lot of good?
I don't remember finding something similar, but i would be interested on a study as following: take a little kid in whose family male pattern baldness runs and get him to a healthy diet since he is born. Observe him for 20-30 years. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a full head of hair at 30 even if all his male relatives are nw6, and hairloss would appear very late in his life!
