Protein consumption to combat hair loss

[medilook]

Hair is made of protein so do you think consuming more protein can slow down male pattern baldness and thinning of the hair?

 

[elephant_knight]

Yeah. And if you eat a bunch of raw meat while somebody is trying to cut your arm off with a chainsaw you can stop that from happening as your muscles are made of protein and eating meat will keep them regenerating.

 

[psyhotria]

If your diet is protein-sufficient I doubt that adding protein will do much beyond increasing metabolic waste.Although, proteins like whey protein may help with building glutathione which in turn may be good for hair.On the other hand, amino acids like cysteine (N-acetyl-cysteine, and possibly other amino acids) have been used to enhance hair growth. Free amino acids can exert quite unique effects.Basically what you want do do is enhance glutathione, so you would supplement cysteine and some other amino acids (for details do a search)..

 

[Rawtashk]

No, it won't do anything at all. Have you not done any research into male pattern baldness?

 

[Jacob]

I posted about this amino acid blend before: http://www.professionaldietetics.com/products/proglyme/proglymeDS.html

TRICHOLOGY
Studied to protect, nourish hair and to reduce its loss.​

Treatment effect (1 tiny bottle a day for 90 days) :

• Hair thickening: a statistically significant hair thickening and a consequent decrease of the parting amplitude (Dunnet test p<0.05 T90 vs T0 with a variation percentage versus T0 equal to 13.88%).
• Significant increase of shaft thicknes: a statistically significant increase of shaft thickness (Dunnet test p<0.05 T90 vs T0) with a diameter measurement increase of 9.18%. This increase was still evident after 1 month treatment (6.16%).
• Important variation of hair resistance to traction: Still after 1 month Proglyme® treatment, hair resistance to traction resulted significantly increased (Dunnet test p<0.05 T30 vs T0 with an increase of 15.17%). This increase was yet more consistent at the end of the test (Dunnet test p<0.05 T90 vs T0 with a percentage of increase equal to 20.03%).

You could make your own combo I suppose. Or even one of those custom places that'll mix it up for you.