New iron eficiency research

[jakeb]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,196057,00.html

In which Drs. say that iron deficiency lowers the the threshold of when genetically predisposed people actually lose their hair.

 

[arrogantprick]

if it from Fox News, you can assume is BS

 

[jakeb]

Alright, webMD then:
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/122/114601

 

[powersam]

there is already a thread on this article

 

[So]

PLausible theory

 

[mu0325]

now u wanna tell me that million of bald poeple are iron deficiency...come on its genetic and once it is trigerd it is not reversiable it can be treated...

 

[jakeb]

Lots of things are genetic but are also effected by environmental forces. I think the gist of what they're saying is: lots of people people who are genetically disposed to alopecia wouldn't lose as much of their hair (or wouldn't react as badly to DHT) as they are if they had proper iron levels.

 

[seancashmere]

That's interesting because you'd assume most in the Western world to be up to speed in terms of iron levels and many Third World citizens to resound with iron deficiency, in which case, through anecdotal evidence, is not the case. Third Worlders seem to have more robust heads of hair than many first world men. My opinion solely though.