In my unproofread post above I stated that caffeine is a weak anti-androgen.....whoops. What I meant to type is that caffeine is a weak immunosuppressant. Sorry bout that. Having reread that post, I made a few typos as Im prone to do (fat fingertips).
Haymes, if youre a young fella just starting to see recession, youre so much more luck than us older guys who have experienced some recession for some time. Chances are good you can hold onto your hair for many years when there are better chances of a gene based cure coming out. PuritansPride and Vitaminworld tend to have good stuff as far as herbals go. Just taking a good Vitaimin B supplement would proboably get you all the biotin, bsix, btwelve, folate, etc. that you would need....
You know Haymes, If I listed every substance that Ive seen advised for hairloss it be quite a list. Let me see....arginine (Dr. Proctor), glutamine, the Vitamin B complex (everyone, webmd, dermatologists etc.), Soy Isoflavones (bbc article, japanese researchers), grape seed extract (for the proanthocyanidrins therein I imagine plus fatty acids), MSM (Tom Hagerty and Loren Pickart), Saw Palmetto oil extract (hairsite, Pickart, Razack, numerous docs), Flaxseed oil (flax lignan study, Pickart, many web sources), Pygeum and stinging nettle (hairsite, web), beta-sitosterol (Dr. Sears, Hairsite, the fact its contained in Natricia(Razack)
Black Currant and Borage and Evening Primrose oil all contain Omega three fatty acids, Zinc, Copper, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Melatonin, Lecithin, reservatrol (extract found in red wine), Fish oil.......buncha stuff huh?
The ones associated with thinning blood/ or releasing nitric oxide to dialate peripheral blood vessels/repair them are fish oil, arginine, glutamine, reservatrol (red wine)
The ones associated with anti-inflammatory activities are flaxseed oil, borage oil, black currant oil, primrose oil, saw palmetto (to an extent).
Decreasing DHT actions are palmetto, pygeum, isoflavones, stinging nettle, beta sitosterol
Decreasing amount of androgen receptors vitamin bsix, isoflavone genistein,
Hair follicles need it nutritionally? Vitamin b complex, vitamin a, vitamin d,
Apparently have good effects on hair for poorly understood/unknown reason? Melatonin, lecithin, zinc (maybe inhibits DHT production), copper (rejuvinates skin, maybe inhibits some DHT production)
What not to eat? Saturated animal fats ESPECIALLY from dairy products and red meat. Go for leaner cuts of red meat than sloppy hamburgers, and only drink skim milk if you must (note, Americans and Europeans drink MUCH more milk than other countries around the world. The Thai are 98 percent lactose intolerant, and their hair is better than ours.......Dr. Nasser Razteck advises agains fat from milk, so Id drink skim if I just had to have it. Razteck also noted that men who ate 5 servings of red meat every week had much higher incidences of prostate cancer. Chinese men have 120 times less prostate cancer than black american men. Chinese men eat lots of soy based food and black american men eat the same red-meat that we all do over here state side. Things to consider. Japanese now bald much more often than they did before WWII when they had a traditional soy/plant/fish based diet. They now have milk, McDonalds......and they go bald much more often. MOre food for thought.