The Gardener said:
DammitLetMeIn said:
Either way, we were all given the genes to have hair until we die.
That is about as true as saying that we all have the genes to not have to go through puberty.
DammitLetMeIn said:
Cave men ate raw meat. Their diet consisted of a plethora of cleansing raw fat (much like the eskimo and african tribes).
And they all died before reaching age 40.
Many eskimos today eat a raw fat diet and live well beyond 40.
I read on the internet that thing about everyone having the genes until we die by a scientist/doctor guy.
Also, here's a piece:
As societies that consumed relatively low-fat diets such as pre-World War II Japan experienced almost no pattern baldness, whereas in post-World War II Japan there is an increase in pattern baldness as their society consumes a higher fat diet. In fact, Asian and African men in their native countries traditionally suffer very little Male Pattern Baldness (male pattern baldness). Although when the same peoples come to North America, they begin to develop male pattern baldness. Because people of all races and ethnicities tend to develop male pattern baldness or androgenetic alopecia, yet do not exhibit these tendencies before moving to America, changes in diet may be a leading contributing factor. Diets high in fat do increase testosterone, which is the main component in DHT. More research needs to be done on this topic to reach conclusive evidence, although it certainly could not hurt to lower one’s fat intake.
And heres another piece:
DAVID FOLK THOMAS: Fast food, how does that affect everything?
SHARI LIEBERMAN, PhD: It's a whole bag of worms if we go into fast food. I mean, I don't want to get too complicated.But the types of fat that you're eating when you're eating fast food -- you're really eating mostly arachidonic acid, and you're eating saturated fat, and it's cooked and it changes the structure of the fat.So you're really favoring a prostaglandin profile, which is a hormonal-like substance that would favor inflammation, and I don't believe that that's going to help your skin be healthy or your hair be healthy. It's certainly implicated in arthritis and a lot of inflammatory diseases, so we really want to balance the diet, especially if someone's experiencing that.
Arachdonic Acid is something Spencer David Kobren also mentions in his book as being a pro-inflammatory in bald people.
Anyways, just out of interest, do you eat a lot of meat/cooked dairy?