Suspicion: Nutritional deficiency leads to hairloss

[dark&bald]

I noticed that the men I know usually have much worse hair than their fathers and have experienced hairloss earlier in life and to a greater extent. It could be a number of factors that contribute to this phenomenon, but one that makes a lot of sense to me is they are more nutrient deficiency compared to their parents. I don't think there is much argument that are parents diet was/is better than the diet many of us have today.....

I really have been focusing on my diet lately and have eliminated many foods and routinely consumer others. I noticed that I shed very little hair and almost nothing in comparison before my dietary change.

I just want to offer some dietary tips that can help/compliment any regimen out there....
Some foods I suggest eating are:
1. coconut. The water and flesh of the fruit. I do not recommend consuming the oil.
2. Chocolate. Must not be milk chocolate. Preferably without sugar like baking chocolate. Unprocessed Cacao Nibs are extremely nutritious and what I primarily suggest.
3. Sauerkraut or other fermented vegetables. Must not contain any preservatives. Don't even bother if it does.
4. Red onion. Onion has to be eaten raw to be most beneficial.
5. rice.

Of course I suggest avoiding the obvious like sugar. I also suggest avoiding all dairy especially if you are even slightly lactose, and avoid grains other than rice.

 

[zzzzz]

a poor diet can cause hairloss in rare cases, but will never cause male pattern baldness. If you have male pattern baldness it is not from diet. Diet would cause uniform loss all over the head (back,sides). If that is not what your hairloss looks like, you can improve your diet but do it purely for your health, not for your hair because it won't do anything for it

 

[hellouser]

If it were diet there wouldnt be so many baldies....

How often do you see a bald muscle-bound meathead at the gym trying to compensate for his baldness? You think these guys eat junk food?

 

[massa]

What a complete load of bullsh!t, the other day I saw a drugged up tramp in the street he must have been 60 years old swigging a case of beer and he was a NW1!! I couldn't believe it, male pattern baldness is 99.99% genetic so eating a few red onions or taking Biotin isn't going to help.

 

[idunnolol]

Suspicion: Androgenetic alopecia leads to hairloss

yep

 

[introvertedextrovert]

I think my 45 pound weight loss in 6 months expedited the already existing male pattern baldness...

 

[Dalton]

So I guess all women have perfect diets, which is why none of them have male pattern baldness...

 

[dark&bald]

I think my 45 pound weight loss in 6 months expedited the already existing male pattern baldness...

that's what encouraged me to start this thread. I was researching gastric bypass surgery and one of the side effects listed was hair loss due to nutritional deficiency. My suggestion to you is to really focus on your diet. The more you simplify your diet, the easier it is to figure out what foods are good for you and which ones are bad for you. That's how I found out dairy was CONTRIBUTING to my hairloss.

A good thing to do is to start the morning with a nutrient dense food and see how it makes you feel till your next meal. I use to eat a apple for breakfast which I thought would be ideal for me. One morning I decided to eat fresh coconut and I felt a remarkable difference throughout the day. Guess what I eat every morning now.

The best foods are whole food in my opinion. Not only are they a good source for vitamins and minerals, but things like sauerkraut and coconut help your body digest other food so you get more out them

Congrats on your weight loss.

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So I guess all women have perfect diets, which is why none of them have male pattern baldness...

it would be interesting to see the percentage of men vs women are nutrient deficient. In most cases, it's not about the diet but what your body can extract and put to use from the food you consume. That's why older people can be calcium deficient even though they consume the typical amount of dairy. Women have strong immune systems than men and I wouldn't be surprised if their digestive system is better as well. There are many women who only consume 1 meal throughout the day and function perfectly normal. How many men would only be able to eat once a day and live a normal life?

 

[beaner]

So I guess all women have perfect diets, which is why none of them have male pattern baldness...

It might also be because they're female. It's called Male Pattern Baldness for a reason.

This isn't true anyway, because women also suffer from androgenic hair loss (also known as female pattern baldness) although it's not as common as male pattern baldness and is in more of a diffuse pattern with no receding hairline.

 

[hellouser]

It might also be because they're female.

Ah, the privileged

 

[Rudolphus]

male pattern baldness is entirely genetic. Nutrition, diet and exercise has nothing to do with it. As a previous poster said, poor nutrition can occasionally cause uniform hair loss over the entire scalp, but this is completely unrelated to male pattern baldness.

 

[Fena2000]

I used to drink beer (every weekend), smoke, eat crappy food, no hair loss at all. I quit smoking, quit drinking , take vitamins , eat healthy as much as possible, and what happens , hair loss . It has nothing to do with diet IMO. It's all genetic bad luck.

 

[Dalton]

40% of all hair loss sufferers are women. Do some research before writing such statements.

Oh yea, how many women do you see walking around looking like Dr. Phil?? Womens hairloss is a totally different animal than mens loss, not the DHT massacre that explains male pattern baldness. Thats the whole point, if it was nutritional men and women would bald identically.

 

[hellouser]

Quoted from The Bald Truth by Spencer Kobren, which is an absolute reference on hair loss.

Think about it smart-***, women are just not allowed to walk around bald, that's why you will hardly or never see them.

But it doesn't change the fact that 40% of hair loss sufferers are women. They will just use every trick in the book to disguise their hair loss.

And it's completely accepted for women to disguise. Why? Well, women are already frauds with fake nails, fake eyelashes, fake fake lips, fake tits, fake faces with multiple layers of makeup to hide all the ugly.... does anyone really think they would draw the line at hair? LOL.

But a MAN trying to use tricks to disguise hair loss is seen as some kind of disgusting offence? WTF?

 

[hellouser]

As men we don't have the right to talk about it, to complain about it, or to have expensive campaigns targeted for us.

I'm surprised Movember has gained the kind of popularity its got. Nice change, for once.

We just have the right to shut the hell up and suck it up. So what you were abused by your girlfriend? So what you were raped? So what you're losing your hair? Man up!

Next time I see some chick b**ch about whatever, I'm telling her to 'woman up'

 

[lkm370]

I used to do security at a busy library in my city. My job consisted of kicking out homeless people who slept in the library. I **** you not...ive had hundreds of homeless come thru our doors and I never saw a single one bald lol. I know its anecdotal evidence but these guys are alcoholics, drug addicts, eat out of a dumpster and all had good heads of hair

 

[Aesthetic]

u ever see starving people in Africa that are bald no...