THE ROOT OF GRAY HAIR

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@Veritas IV posted this about stinging nettle for gray hair…

“Been using it for over a dozen years also. Teas, capsules, and in the shampoo a few times. And that's with no copper supplements till more recently. Very few gray hairs.”

Weighting pros and cons of nettle for grey hairs

@Rinse & rePeat what did I just say Stinging nettle has antiproliferative, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, analgesic, anti-infectious, hypotensive, and antiulcer characteristics, as well as the ability to prevent cardiovascular disease, in all parts of the plant (leaves, stems, roots, and...

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“Rosemary tea can be beneficial for your hair in several ways. For one, it can help stimulate hair growth. The nutrients in it can also help to strengthen your hair and prevent breakage. Rosemary tea can also improve blood circulation to the scalp, which can promote healthy hair growth.

Rosemary is a herb often used to stimulate hair growth. In one study, it was found that when mice suffering from lower levels of testosterone in their system were increased it can help them grow back more hair than before!”

8 Surprising Benefits of Rosemary Tea

Find out the surprising benefits of drinking rosemary tea, from improving cognitive function to helping fight bacteria.

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“…rosemary water is slowly becoming one of my favorite hair rinses.

The reason is simple because rosemary water is super effective to boost hair growth, darken your gray hair, and combat hair loss. Plus, it makes your hair smell divine.”

Rosemary Water For Hair: Darkens Hair & Stimulates Hair Growth

Have you tried using rosemary water for hair yet?

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[Old Irenaeus]

Time to plant and grow a big rosemary bush.

 

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Time to plant and grow a big rosemary bush.

I have been growing rosemary for at least 15 years! It cured my adrenal/heart issue. I just dried a bunch of it this past couple of weeks, for tea. It is so easy and much cheaper to grow your own. I grew mine in a milk crate, lined with some weed block and keep it on the cement patio.

 

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Thanks for the recipes... I used to eat nettles when I first moved to Alaska. Just the young tender greens in the Spring/early Summer. I did have a strong reaction to them when hiking in shorts, for me the rash lasts a good 24 hours or more, And it is sun sensitive. Hmmmmm. I bet it grows here Down Under.

I have been growing 3 plants, and have gotten stung three times now. Fortunately I put on some baking soda paste each time and it goes away quickly, but my experience came from barely roughing the leaves. That would really be a miserable experience walking straight in it. Admittedly, after the stings, I am a little nervous to eat them. I am not going to eat them until the stalks are about 2 feet tall. I like how easy it is to get a good dose of vitamin K1 with them. I hear they are delicious! Did you like them @AlaskaJono?

 

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For people that are worried about nettle, throw some rosemary in with the nettle. Rosemary clears out estrogens….

“Another reason integrative healthcare practitioners like the herb and supplements is that they seem to have hormone-balancing effects—especially for women. “It helps detox estrogens in the liver, which can lower activity in the body,” says Susan Blum, M.D., an integrative physician and founder of the Blum Center for Health in Rye Brook, New York. “It’s great to use for women with heavy periods, bad PMS, fibroids, fibrocystic breasts, endometriosis, and hot flashes.”

In fact, research in mice demonstrates that by clearing out estrogen, rosemary helps decreases the hormone’s ability to cause cancer, and a study in Oncology Reports showed that rosemary extract “slowed the spread of human leukemia and breast carcinoma cells.””

Rosemary: The Hormone-Balancing Brain Boost

Rosemary is easy to use, and it has a unique antioxidant profile that could lead to a long list of potential health benefits. Learn more.

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@ivy found this lost treasure!

Lost Conversations with Ray Peat #1: The Purpose of Hair, Luciferianism, and Obama as a CIA Creation


Danny Roddy: Okay, that makes sense. I read a few times, Kealey. I might be saying his name wrong. Adachi and a few of the other hair loss guys talk about how the hair follicle is extremely glucose-dependent and that it needs a source of glucose. Then a few other people say it's relatively independent of the circulation of glucose in the blood. They were thinking that the glycogen was part of that independence, but if the circulation is reduced from the low thyroid function and the oxygen supply is reduced, the hair follicle obviously suffers. That's where the oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation come in, really harming ... Go ahead.

Ray Peat: Yeah. All of the stresses tend to interfere with glucose oxidation. When you're stressed, you liberate free fatty acids as an energy source, but those poison the ability to oxidize oxygen, so it creates a local diabetes. Have you heard anything about whether diabetics have more baldness or less baldness?

Danny Roddy: I read that the insulin resistance, so-called, is related to baldness. Then somebody on one of my YouTube videos said that he had worked extensively with type 1 diabetics who were all using insulin, and he was like, "I've never noticed any of them being bald before." I don't know if that was accurate or not.

Ray Peat: I've been thinking that with a concentrated glucose solution, you could probably activate hair growth just by keeping your scalp moistened with glucose.

Danny Roddy: That's funny because people have emailed me that, asking if that was a viable therapy. I was like, "I have no idea. I don't know how that would work." It made me think of when you would say things like people use honey for scars and things like that. Go ahead.

Ray Peat: People are actually suggesting applying insulin topically to the skin, but that's a relatively much bigger molecule than glucose. I think there's a chance that either of those can get in, in a quantity that could help.

Danny Roddy: The insulin is helping by what? Stupid question but just supplying the hair follicle with glucose?

Ray Peat: With energy, yeah.

 

[Old Irenaeus]

@ivy found this lost treasure!

Lost Conversations with Ray Peat #1: The Purpose of Hair, Luciferianism, and Obama as a CIA Creation

What a superb title.

 

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What a superb title.

I know right?!

 

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“In white hair, the amount of tryptophan is higher than in hair of any other color. Although serotonin and tryptophan are very important during rapid growth, their presence in senile tissues is probably closely associated with the processes of decline. The hair loss that occurs in hypothyroidism, postpartum syndrome, and with the use of drugs such as St. John's wort (which can also cause the “serotonin syndrome”) could be another effect of excess serotonin.” -Ray Peat

 

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“Copper is the crucial element for producing the color in hair and skin, for maintaining the elasticity of skin and blood vessels, for protecting against certain types of free radical, and especially for allowing us to use oxygen properly for the production of biological energy. It is also necessary for the normal functioning of certain nerve cells (substantia nigra) whose degeneration is involved in Parkinson's disease. The shape and texture of hair, as well as its color, can change in a copper deficiency. Too much iron can block our absorption of copper, and too little copper makes us store too much iron. With aging, our tissues lose copper as they store excess iron. Because of those changes, we need more vitamin E as we age.” Ray Peat