Rafael Lao Wai
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I first read about it in this thread: Haidut Email Advice DepositoryNeed to hear about this case more
"About hair:
Wagner83:
Yeah I know we discussed it, my only question is are minerals and ph balance really downstream or do they form a circle with hormones, liver and thyroid function and the rest . Things like magnesium can be pretty potent. For example I'm still curious about hair loss because my hair look awful and shed a lot, yet I feel better than I did before. I remember being very stressed, eating whole grains and salmon and coming off bad nerve issues with the healthiest shiniest fullest looking hair ever. I think you are balding or bald yourself. This for me makes it hard to believe serotonin and cortisol or estrogens are the only players in hair loss. It also makes it hard to believe hair tests are a great marker for health.
haidut:
I lost a lot of hair over the course of a very short period (maybe 6 months or so) around 2008/2009 when I was at the height of my Paleo days. Since they I regrew at least 50% of it, so I went from almost bald to having a "receding hairline" as the dermatologist I saw called it. The period of most intense hair loss coincided almost perfectly with the period of high cortisol/prolactin/estrogen measured on blood tests, which have since normalized. To me there is no doubt that these hormones cause hair loss, the only disconnect I see with Peat is to what degree this can be reversed. The only person I know of who lost all his hair in a typical MPB pattern and got it ALL back was a mountain climber I knew back in college. He went almost completely bald in his mid-twenties and went to live with a community in the Tian-Shen mountains. I saw him maybe 5 years later and his hair had come back completely. He told me he would never go back to the modern world and there are things he could "feel" in the air, "taste" in the food and "see" around us that he could never explain but were obvious to people who lived in the wild. He said even one of those "things" was enough to cause serious health issues over time. He studied Selye as well and said once the "stress syndrome" starts it can be stopped but not reversed in the modern world we live in. That world is engineered AND optimized for stress and he thought he needed a complete reset to recover. He did seem to recover his hair fully and it did look real (no surgery or fake implants). And he went back to the mountains and seems to not have any interest in coming back. Maybe it is the CO2, maybe it is the freedom he enjoys there. But the difference in how he looked, not just because of hair regrowth, was striking. I don't think I could pull off leaving the civilized world for good, but every once in a while I wonder if there is any point in doing a more extended "reset" like him. Peat keeps going to Mexico and cuts off the world completely for months. There must be a reason for that. He also said a few times that changing places/experiences in a dramatic fashion can change things for good for people who do not respond to anything else."