What is alopecia?
Disease that directly causes patches ofhair loss throughout your scalp andthere are other autoimmune diseases likeHashimoto’s and lupus that can also dothe same thing how can a trace mineral
What causes hair loss?
Deficiency cause you to lose your hair well trace minerals are minerals neededin very tiny amounts but just because they’re needed in tiny amounts doesn’tmean they don’t have a profound effect over your body these trace minerals areessential for a lot of different thingsregarding hair they’re essential inpreventing autoimmune diseases also in treating autoimmune diseases as well astheir effect directly in building upthe hair protein it self you know when wethink about protein people think about muscles but there are a lot of othertypes of proteins in your body thatpeople don’t consider proteins enzymesfor example and I’m not just talkingabout digestive enzymes I’m talking about the enzymes that are involved inyour biochemistry that help makehormones that help do the work of the
body relating to the thyroid youactually have enzymes that actually makebody tissue regarding thyroid hormonesyou have enzymes that actually canconvert the inactive thyroid hormonewhich is T4 to the active thyroidhormone which is T3 and then you haveproteins involved in your immune systemthat keep your immune system strong thatprevent you from a self-attack or thecreation of antibodies against your owntissues and out of all the mineralsthere’s three trace minerals that arevery important to make sure that you getin your diet and understand other thingsthat can create the deficiency
The best remedies for alopecia
First talk about iodine you probablyalready know iodine is necessary to makethyroid hormones through enzymes and asyou’re deficient in iodine you can’tmake thyroid hormones and when we’redealing with a thyroid autoimmune problem there’s some data out there thatsuggests that too much iodine can causean autoimmune disease but there’soverwhelming evidence that that’s actually not true it’s usually adeficiency of iodine that can create more of a problem than in excess an average person is deficient in iodine because it’s hard to get from our food because it’s not in our soils so unless
they eat something from the sea they’reusually not going to get enough iodineunless they’re taking something like seakelp or seaweed or in parts of the worldwhere you eat a lot of seaweed which is definitely not in America we primarily get our iodine from sea salt and even that we probably don’t get enough iodineto satisfy all the requirements that weneed when someone is deficient in iodine
they get an out of controlestrogen level because iodine helpsbuffer estrogen and when they don’t haveenough iodine and they get too muchestrogen they can develop cysts on theovaries they can develop fibrocysticrest they can even develop nodules onthe thyroid gland itself anotherinteresting thing about iodine is thatyou can be deficient not from your dietbut from other things interfering withthe absorption of iodine like
fluoride okay whether you’re gettingsome type of dental whitening type therapy or you’re drinking tap water
with fluoride as well as chlorine chlorine also interferes with iodine so there’s three big things that can
interfere with iodine fluoride chloride and bromine which is in a lot of enriched flower products as in the bread pasta cereal crackers biscuits things like that but there’s another source of fluoride that you may not suspect in fact 20 percent of all medications out there are fluoride based including Prozac statin drugs other
antidepressants certain antibioticscertain antacid medications as well ascertain anti-inflammatories all containfluoride which can interfere with iodineand by the way as far as the amount ofof iodine you need on a daily basis Iwould recommend about 200 microgramsokay not milligrams micrograms iodine isvery very important in a growing childif a child or an infant is deficient they can develop all sorts of cognitivedeficiencies but seek help Seafood seasalt is all good to take if you want tobuild up your iodine now the next Tracemineral is called zinc okay zinc as youknow is very very important in yourimmune system and when people getautoimmune diseases they’re usuallydeficient in zinc and this zincdeficiency allows a condition where yourimmune system can get out of control butthe best bio available sources of zinc isfrom meat fish and eggs not plant-based
sources plant-based sources are not good sources of zinc one of the most common causes of a zinc deficiency is by consuming too much cereal okay cereal has phytates just like any grains and these phytates block minerals especially zinc zinc is one of the most important minerals for your immune system and without it you’re very very susceptible to infections and other problems including inflammation the zinc directly is involved in certain enzymes which are proteins that actually build up your hair and as far as the
amount of zinc if it as a supplement about 50 milligrams but if you’re
consuming things like red meat or evenbeef liver or even oysters or seafoodchances are you’re getting enough zincbut if you’re exposed to Mercury thatcan increase the need for more zinc ifyou consume a lot of sugar or you’reexposed to a lot of stress yourrequirement for zinc goes dramaticallyup okay the next mineral is seleniumselenium is involved in 35 different proteins okay and again I’m talking about those protein enzymes that do most
the work in the body if you’re deficient in selenium you can start getting graying of the hair you can start
developing alopecia directly or a deficiency of selenium can lead to Hashimoto’s selenium is a catch-22 because deficiency can create a problem with alopecia and an excess or a toxicity can create alopecia so it’s one of those trace minerals that more more is not better Mercury can also interfere with selenium a lot of women who are pregnant are deficient in in selenium not to mention zinc and even
iodine so this is just another reason pregnancy it’s so important to take these trace minerals now there are also genes that help you absorb selenium and there also could be a genetic mutation that causes difficulty in getting enough selenium so in this case if you’re just getting the minimum amount you may have deficiency symptoms and you can get a genetic test to determine this and I’ve been doing a deep dive in this DNA topic which I’ll do more videos on but so many people have genetic problems with minerals and vitamins and this
especially relates to like B12 folate vitamin D and even vitamin C the other interesting thing about selenium is that
it seems to control vitamin E levels itprotects a person from becomingdeficient in vitamin E maybe because ofselenium is a precursor for glutathionewhich is a powerful antioxidant andother antioxidants as well the amount ofselenium the person needs would bebetween 50 micrograms to 200 micrograms which really is a tiny amount one Brazilnut is enough to satisfy what you wouldneed don’t need to hold back okay justone at a time per day because you canactually get a toxic amount fairly quick
Other important nutrients for hair loss
there are other nutrients as well that greatly influence the hair and I’m just going to quickly run down the list iron okay in B12 primarily because of the function of what they can do to increase your oxygen levels and your blood levels your red blood cell levels to your scalp without this blood and oxygen to the scalp the roots of the hair can’t survive and probably the biggest reason why women are deficient in iron is
because of menstruation
Vitamin D very very important with any autoimmune disease because it reduces inflammation and even though a vitamin D deficiency
doesn’t cause like alopecia directly it can cause a loss of body hair which is more of a alopecia for the entire body but not necessarily just on the scalp but if you have any type of autoimmune problem you should be taking vitamin D on a daily basis roughly about twenty thousand IUS now let’s talk about Biotin for a second a lot of people take biotin in very large amounts biotin is vitaminB7 it’s and it’s involved in protein synthesis especially the hair and the nails but if you’re deficient in biotin is your hair is going to be very dry
the hair you may have just general hairloss a couple reasons why people aredeficient in biotin because your gutFlora makes it it could be you havetaken antibiotics it could be youconsume a lot of raw eggs which by the way the egg yolkis the thing that has the most biotinbut if you have raw eggs there’s acertain compound in there that locks upyour biotin so you could becomedeficient another cause would bepregnancy which increases the demand forbiotin or you may have a genetic problem with a certain protein that helps youabsorb Biotin and you have a problem
little bit more and lastly folate this is interesting because a folate deficiency is a very common deficiency
even though folate comes from dark leafy green vegetables a lot of people have a problem with a certain Gene called MTHFR which requires them to consume more folate not folic acid but folate so they can start to build up some of these
