braveheart2065
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I'm not inclined to post to online forums, but after reading a lot of letters under the "Let's Talk About It" page that I could painfully identify with, I wanted to contribute some information I hope will potentially improve the people on this website's quality of life.
In 1999 I always suspected that food played a major role in health and illness. Since then, I've been on a long road trying to fix a host of chronic though not life-threatening health problems naturally.
I've always had thin hair and lost a signficant amount of hair after taking an acne medication in the mid-80's. I've tried Rogaine and Propecia and was not happy with the results. I have a fairly good working knowledge of herbs and have tried saw palmetto and all things good for the prostate, but also to no avail.
I think hair loss is basically caused by our hormones slipping out of balance and to reverse it, you have to rebalance your hormone levels. This is a straightforward, easy to understand concept, but hard to execute in real life - the latest pharmaceutical products notwithstanding.
I don't think food per se is the answer to hair loss, but I think something that used to come with all food is a major part of the answer: soil-based organisms. Maybe you've heard of them - maybe you haven't, but since they don't seem to be making as much noise in health circles as I thought they would by now, I wanted to mention them on this website - if they haven't been already.
I was introduced to them via this guy's story: If you look down on the 7th line, there's a harmless little addition to the list of all his health problems, "hair loss". You don't have to have all the problems this guy had to benefit from "SBO's" as they're also called. It's taken me a couple years to realize SBO's are good if not essential for your overall health.
SBO's break down undigested build-up on your intestinal wall and are the proper way to detox your digestive tract. They're supposed to be in the diet; they're a perfect fit for the human body
You're not going to reverse your hormone imbalance until you've adequately detox'd the body.
I've been on SBO's for almost 3 years now and, in combination with general body detoxing through fasting, can tell you unequivocally my hair is growing back - even in the front temple regions. It's growing back a little too slow for my tastes, but I'm not looking a gifthorse in the mouth. I'm in my late 30's, I would think someone in their early 20's should see faster results. I should only have another year or so before I have a head of hair I'm happy with.
I take the bacillus laterosporus BOD, and bacillus subtilis. I look forward to trying even more effective SBO's as they're "rediscovered" in the future.
This is all a serious leap of faith since most people in their 30's and 40's likely wouldn't see results for a year or two. You don't have to believe a word of this. Some of the alternative/natural health products out there are definitely scams, but if you read this post you can't say down the line that you never heard what will really help grow real hair back and my conscience is clear. Good luck.
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My only concern is, what does all this say for guys with full heads of hair? I mean I've seen some with horrendously poor diets yet they maintain a full head of hair.
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Sorry for my delay in responding. I don't check into this site too often. Yes, a nutritional, really a detoxing regimen, is exactly what's going to get people healthy enough to start growing their hairback. Like I said it's not the food per se, it's what used to come with food when it was eaten in the wild.
Guys who eat poorly and still maintain their hair are just lucky. To understand this involves understanding a little bit about digestion, genetics, and environmental insults like pollution, and how they all relate to each other. Someone who's keeping their hair is keeping their hair-related hormones in balance. This could be because they just have a genetic tendency to do this, or it could be because they have healthy bacteria ratios in their gut and avoid a toxic gut, or it could be because they're less toxic overall because they're not exposed to environmental toxins at home or at work (e.g. see welders). Feeding bad food to good bacteria in the gut is generally harmless compared to feeding either good or bad food to bad bacteria in the gut. We don't eat until the bacteria in our gut eats.
But all of this doesn't rule out someone who's losing their hair growing it back by natural means. A toxic gut is the problem for most people losing their hair I suspect. This is why just straight fasting won't grow hair back. Fasting is great for detoxing, but it won't remove the layers of toxic junk accumulated in your gut over the years. You have to get to the source of the toxicity and there hasn't been anything like soil bacteria consciously in our diets before. It actually decomposes the junk in our gut like it had for millions of years before. Modern medical science is only starting to fully understand how the body best lives and lived symbiotically in nature with bacteria.
BTW, the Wall Street Journal had an article Tu 1/27/04 on what the food industry wants people to eat in 2004: "(Beneficial) Bacteria, Purported to Be Good for Health." Should be a good review for anyone wanting to come up to speed on beneficial bacteria in general. The article covers dairy-based bacteria and prebiotics, but it's only a short jump from there to soil bacteria.
If you believe Jordan Rubin fixed Crohn's disease like he contends which is currently considered incurable by most conventional medical doctors (a popular recommendation is to remove part of the intestintes), then I don't know why it wouldn't be hard to believe he also stumbled on the way to grow hair back. I didn't set out to grow hair back either, I just got lucky and found his story. It's all about fixing autoimmune conditions which is what hair loss really is according to most natural health practitioners.
In 1999 I always suspected that food played a major role in health and illness. Since then, I've been on a long road trying to fix a host of chronic though not life-threatening health problems naturally.
I've always had thin hair and lost a signficant amount of hair after taking an acne medication in the mid-80's. I've tried Rogaine and Propecia and was not happy with the results. I have a fairly good working knowledge of herbs and have tried saw palmetto and all things good for the prostate, but also to no avail.
I think hair loss is basically caused by our hormones slipping out of balance and to reverse it, you have to rebalance your hormone levels. This is a straightforward, easy to understand concept, but hard to execute in real life - the latest pharmaceutical products notwithstanding.
I don't think food per se is the answer to hair loss, but I think something that used to come with all food is a major part of the answer: soil-based organisms. Maybe you've heard of them - maybe you haven't, but since they don't seem to be making as much noise in health circles as I thought they would by now, I wanted to mention them on this website - if they haven't been already.
I was introduced to them via this guy's story: If you look down on the 7th line, there's a harmless little addition to the list of all his health problems, "hair loss". You don't have to have all the problems this guy had to benefit from "SBO's" as they're also called. It's taken me a couple years to realize SBO's are good if not essential for your overall health.
SBO's break down undigested build-up on your intestinal wall and are the proper way to detox your digestive tract. They're supposed to be in the diet; they're a perfect fit for the human body
You're not going to reverse your hormone imbalance until you've adequately detox'd the body.
I've been on SBO's for almost 3 years now and, in combination with general body detoxing through fasting, can tell you unequivocally my hair is growing back - even in the front temple regions. It's growing back a little too slow for my tastes, but I'm not looking a gifthorse in the mouth. I'm in my late 30's, I would think someone in their early 20's should see faster results. I should only have another year or so before I have a head of hair I'm happy with.
I take the bacillus laterosporus BOD, and bacillus subtilis. I look forward to trying even more effective SBO's as they're "rediscovered" in the future.
This is all a serious leap of faith since most people in their 30's and 40's likely wouldn't see results for a year or two. You don't have to believe a word of this. Some of the alternative/natural health products out there are definitely scams, but if you read this post you can't say down the line that you never heard what will really help grow real hair back and my conscience is clear. Good luck.
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My only concern is, what does all this say for guys with full heads of hair? I mean I've seen some with horrendously poor diets yet they maintain a full head of hair.
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(My Reply)
Sorry for my delay in responding. I don't check into this site too often. Yes, a nutritional, really a detoxing regimen, is exactly what's going to get people healthy enough to start growing their hairback. Like I said it's not the food per se, it's what used to come with food when it was eaten in the wild.
Guys who eat poorly and still maintain their hair are just lucky. To understand this involves understanding a little bit about digestion, genetics, and environmental insults like pollution, and how they all relate to each other. Someone who's keeping their hair is keeping their hair-related hormones in balance. This could be because they just have a genetic tendency to do this, or it could be because they have healthy bacteria ratios in their gut and avoid a toxic gut, or it could be because they're less toxic overall because they're not exposed to environmental toxins at home or at work (e.g. see welders). Feeding bad food to good bacteria in the gut is generally harmless compared to feeding either good or bad food to bad bacteria in the gut. We don't eat until the bacteria in our gut eats.
But all of this doesn't rule out someone who's losing their hair growing it back by natural means. A toxic gut is the problem for most people losing their hair I suspect. This is why just straight fasting won't grow hair back. Fasting is great for detoxing, but it won't remove the layers of toxic junk accumulated in your gut over the years. You have to get to the source of the toxicity and there hasn't been anything like soil bacteria consciously in our diets before. It actually decomposes the junk in our gut like it had for millions of years before. Modern medical science is only starting to fully understand how the body best lives and lived symbiotically in nature with bacteria.
BTW, the Wall Street Journal had an article Tu 1/27/04 on what the food industry wants people to eat in 2004: "(Beneficial) Bacteria, Purported to Be Good for Health." Should be a good review for anyone wanting to come up to speed on beneficial bacteria in general. The article covers dairy-based bacteria and prebiotics, but it's only a short jump from there to soil bacteria.
If you believe Jordan Rubin fixed Crohn's disease like he contends which is currently considered incurable by most conventional medical doctors (a popular recommendation is to remove part of the intestintes), then I don't know why it wouldn't be hard to believe he also stumbled on the way to grow hair back. I didn't set out to grow hair back either, I just got lucky and found his story. It's all about fixing autoimmune conditions which is what hair loss really is according to most natural health practitioners.
