TL;DR: when I cut my complete protein intake from 70g-80g per day down to 30g-40g per day from animal foods, I experience significantly lower hair fall the following morning (or day/s). Why might this be?
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Hi everyone,
Along with the theme of lower protein that has been talked about more in the past few weeks (especially in light of Ray's recent chats with Danny and Georgi), I have incidentally been noticing an interesting phenomenon on my (usually accidental) lower protein days - specifically, *significantly reduced* hair fall on the following day/s.
If anyone saw my "carb sources" thread a couple of weeks back: I typically eat about 70g of complete animal protein, usually from beef, which is approximately 350g of lean meat per day. Plus about 30g or so of gelatin, to reach a round number of 100g. I don't tend to consume much dairy at all, due to some digestive problems with it. And I don't get much from plants.
I do this as a basis for health, growth and recovery. But additionally, I am a recreational weightlifter / "bodybuilder" - I am not big by most people's imagination, but have developed a pretty solid, lean physique at 6 ft 1 c. 170lbs, sort of like a boxing light-heavy or an MMA welterweight. I am working on the assumption that lower protein would negatively impact my physique / muscle size, so am usually careful not to let it drop too low.
However, I have recently been having some days of much lower protein (due to some carb source experiments mentioned in my previous thread) - c. 30g of protein from muscle meat (c. 150g of muscle) and occasionally a small amount of brie cheese (maybe 10g protein total). Leading to approximately 40g of compete protein MAXIMUM - plus the gelatin on top of that, say a maximum of 30g or so.
I don't think this lower protein is enough to maintain my physique and health, so have never experimented with it long term. However, every time I have done this, my hair fall is *significantly reduced* the following day / days... What could be going on here??
Current theories are that on the higher protein days, there is: kidney stress, too high cell turnover on the higher protein days, excess methionine / harmful aminos, excess phosphorus (which I always balance with calcium supplementation, but total P may be quite high on most days at c. 1g).
Any thoughts?
Also, would anyone advise that my current average protein intake is unnecessarily high in light of my weightlifting?
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Hi everyone,
Along with the theme of lower protein that has been talked about more in the past few weeks (especially in light of Ray's recent chats with Danny and Georgi), I have incidentally been noticing an interesting phenomenon on my (usually accidental) lower protein days - specifically, *significantly reduced* hair fall on the following day/s.
If anyone saw my "carb sources" thread a couple of weeks back: I typically eat about 70g of complete animal protein, usually from beef, which is approximately 350g of lean meat per day. Plus about 30g or so of gelatin, to reach a round number of 100g. I don't tend to consume much dairy at all, due to some digestive problems with it. And I don't get much from plants.
I do this as a basis for health, growth and recovery. But additionally, I am a recreational weightlifter / "bodybuilder" - I am not big by most people's imagination, but have developed a pretty solid, lean physique at 6 ft 1 c. 170lbs, sort of like a boxing light-heavy or an MMA welterweight. I am working on the assumption that lower protein would negatively impact my physique / muscle size, so am usually careful not to let it drop too low.
However, I have recently been having some days of much lower protein (due to some carb source experiments mentioned in my previous thread) - c. 30g of protein from muscle meat (c. 150g of muscle) and occasionally a small amount of brie cheese (maybe 10g protein total). Leading to approximately 40g of compete protein MAXIMUM - plus the gelatin on top of that, say a maximum of 30g or so.
I don't think this lower protein is enough to maintain my physique and health, so have never experimented with it long term. However, every time I have done this, my hair fall is *significantly reduced* the following day / days... What could be going on here??
Current theories are that on the higher protein days, there is: kidney stress, too high cell turnover on the higher protein days, excess methionine / harmful aminos, excess phosphorus (which I always balance with calcium supplementation, but total P may be quite high on most days at c. 1g).
Any thoughts?
Also, would anyone advise that my current average protein intake is unnecessarily high in light of my weightlifting?
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