I've Never Seen Hairloss/pattern Baldness Like Mine. Lost 70% Of My Hair In 4-5 Years

[Hairfedup]

Try Tyronene if your muscles are weak or ache. Having restless legs is usually lactic acid building in the muscles.

Your breathing should be natural and not difficult. T3 is first noticed in the breathing.

I think my breathing is fine...I really don't know whats going on with me. My bloodwork should come through very soon.

 

[Hairfedup]

Try Tyronene if your muscles are weak or ache. Having restless legs is usually lactic acid building in the muscles.

Your breathing should be natural and not difficult. T3 is first noticed in the breathing.

I've never had restless legs and I believe my breathing is OK...Im lost at the moment.

 

[Richiebogie]

Corn, rice and wheat are high in arginine relative to lysine. This could be affecting your collagen production leading to weak nails, hairloss, stretchmarks and issues with the sclera = white of the eye.

If so, potatoes and bananas should work better than those grass seeds.

Other high arginine to lysine foods to watch out for include peanuts, chickpeas, coconut milk, nuts and citrus... particularly orange rind = marmalade and cheap orange juice!

(Ray Peat recommends orange peel if you have excessive collagen synthesis. ie. tumours).

Regardless, ensure you are getting enough vitamin C from raw fruit and greens to complete collagen synthesis. (Scurvy is a disease of connective tissue).

It is good you are keeping it in perspective: Hairloss is not as traumatic as Heirloss.

 

[Hairfedup]

Corn, rice and wheat are high in arginine relative to lysine. This could be affecting your collagen production leading to weak nails, hairloss, stretchmarks and issues with the sclera = white of the eye.

If so, potatoes and bananas should work better than those grass seeds.

Other high arginine to lysine foods to watch out for include peanuts, chickpeas, coconut milk, nuts and citrus... particularly orange rind = marmalade and cheap orange juice!

(Ray Peat recommends orange peel if you have excessive collagen synthesis. ie. tumours).

Regardless, ensure you are getting enough vitamin C from raw fruit and greens to complete collagen synthesis. (Scurvy is a disease of connective tissue).

It is good you are keeping it in perspective: Hairloss is not as traumatic as Heirloss.

Hey Richiebogie, thanks for the input - means a lot. I have been eating a lot of corn and rice my whole life...in fact I had cornmeal porridge for breakfast lol. It's very interesting you say this becuase in conjunction with my strectmark issues I do have a brown spot (I forget its name) in my sclera that has gotten progressively larger since around 16. I do indeed wonder if it is collagen production as the central issue, seeing as that my scalp is extremely malleable, flexible and elastic (unlike what seems to be the hard scalp of most balding forum users). Even with all the changes to my diet, a slight weight loss has made stretchmarks even larger - I'm talking in just 2 weeks. Hmm. I am still lost but you've steered me in the right direction - thank you.

 

[CDT]

Hey guys...gonna just jump right into this. I've been losing or should I say, just lost, most of my hair since around age 20-21. I'm 25 now. It really probably started at 18. I've studied everything - Ayurveda, Chinese traditional, heat in the body theory, onion, fenugreek oil. Everything. I always knew that something had to be wrong inside my body; always had a feeling that hairloss is inherently linked to the inside, the body conveying what's really going on through mechanisms such as baldness. Onion did work for me back in 2014...I gained a lot of hair back. Now it seems useless. At 25, I guess I've got 30-40% hair left, maybe less. That's what lead me to Peat/Roddy and I've been studying and studying. A post here by the name of Elephanto made a lot of sense to me and I've been researching and looking in to everything he layed out in an earlier post for the past few months. Before I give a back ground, like I mentioned in the title of this post, my hair loss isn't like what I've seen on hundreds if not thousands of heads online and in real life. I haven't gone up a Norwood scale. Its just like bang...diffuse hair loss across the entire frontal part of the skull and then vertex balding across the crown. I wouldn't even mind if I had balded like most men, receeding over years and years. I don't know how to upload a picture just yet but I will when I figure it out lol.

After reading up a lot of peat/roddy and of course the experience of users on here, I'm absolutely certain that I'm estrogen dominant and probably hypothyroid. I've been tested for thyroid but my Doctor was unfortunately way past it and offered no advice. Just that she didn't think I had thyroid. I've suffered with stretchmarks all over my stomach since a late teen (seriously, a large meal at one point would give me a rip pink 1-2inch stretch mark, my largest is 5 inches). My hair loss is crazy. Although I was a national level sprinter till about 18, my muscles are incredibly weak...if I do 5 chin ups and wait 10 minutes I won't be able to pull myself up on the bar..pure exhaustion of the forearms...its very hard to explain. I regularly wake up with sore triceps after doing nothing at all. Doctors say its just stress lol. I do believe that stress, cortisol and hairloss are intrinsically linked; men that 'feel' and are unable to shut down feeling inevitably suffer...your sociopathic successful men rarely lose hair. Anyway before I go off on a tangent, my prostate gives me issues at this young age...I basically have to be on Nofap for my prostate not to feel heavy, tight, painful or have strange little spasms. I've been addicted to porn since age 12 and fapped regularly 4 x a day. I know the naysayers will never believe it but I'm sure its played a major role. Prolactin must be super high. Although I can go 7-8 hours without eating easily, my thyroid/throat literally aches if I've not eaten, even if I'm not hungry. I'm sure my metabolism has completely crashed from the yoyo dieting as a teen and young athlete. I have severe anterior-pelvic tilt and vaulted stomach but I can't be certain thats part of my issues - maybe its genetic but I have a hunch. Oh yeah in regards to prostate, the biggest issues I've had with it have been on my most successful year of Nofap (2017) which I find surprising...I guess its how people get sick AFTER they stop smoking etc. I did smoke a pack a day but only for a year when I studied in Egypt. Been cold turkey since 2013.

That's pretty much all I can think of right now - you guys really need to see a picture I think. My hair texture went from thick curly wavy to tight soft curls to bald. I don't know if ethnicity has to do with it ..... Before the heavy hair loss, I always assumed I had the 'ethnic' hair line but now I realise it was most likely minor receding at the temples. A part of me does think that some sort of incompatible gene expression occurred and has left me with his strange, very sick looking baldness. That's the only way I can describe it. Very sick looking - ill and diseased.

Please let me know what you think, like I said I'll be trying [most of but not all] of user Elephanto's protocol...I'm really desperate at this point, not so much even for the hair growing back but for insight into the sickly nature of it and into hormonal/thyroid/prostate issues which I now know are all intimately linked.

p.s. I have a Vitamin D defficiency, the only thing I know for certain. Taking 1 20,000 IU pill once a week prescribed by doctor, no soya etc. Been eating a carrot a day for the last two weeks and coconut oil, a few tablespoons. The craziest thing is my diet is super healthy my whole life: we eat fusion food, never overspiced but a lot of cumin, turmeric, coriander, onions. I eat raw onions with meals as long as I remember. A lot of yoghurt. Carbs have always been cassava, plantain, corn based carbs (fufu anyone). Always fresh food, don't ever remember eating anything, honestly, processed or ready made. Really think the problem is just with me. My siblings have great health, my brother is in his 40s with a good head of hair especially with a stressful job. I suffer from depression...quite badly but never to the point I'd kill myself. V loving family, talk about everything, all my stresses and pain is talked about and worked through. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong!

pss. just remembered that I definitely think I had prostatis or something similar last summer...cleared up after 2-3 months or so. Never had any problems urinating etc so I don't know for sure how badly it effected me, but it was definitely there...heaviness, tightness, anxiety inducing and very occasionally uncomfortable to the point of pain. Oh and I never have an itchy scalp...ever...even when I had a full head of hair. Please let me know what you guys think. I'm lost.


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Do you think being on NoFap for any length of time has helped regrow or at least hat the hairloss? Thanks in advance!