Zinc, Hypothyroidism And Hair Loss

[TheHound]

Zinc Deficiency Associated with Hypothyroidism: An Overlooked Cause of Severe Alopecia

I saw this study which pointed out complete hair regrowth after 4 months in a patient that was given Zinc monohydrate 140 mg capsules containing 50 mg of elemental zinc twice a day

Does anyone know if this level of zinc is safe?

 

[superhuman]

 

[Agent207]

Zinc Deficiency Associated with Hypothyroidism: An Overlooked Cause of Severe Alopecia

I saw this study which pointed out complete hair regrowth after 4 months in a patient that was given Zinc monohydrate 140 mg capsules containing 50 mg of elemental zinc twice a day

Does anyone know if this level of zinc is safe?

Medium-term, not at all.

 

[Richiebogie]

The Recommended daily intake is 15mg a day.

Even this amount is not easy to attain.

This is in about 25 eggs or 1.4kg chicken or 3.4 litres milk or 120g beef or 20g oysters.

This suggests that oysters need more zinc than mammals which need more than birds.

We do not know if the woman's skin and hair issues would have recovered on 15mg of zinc or less per day or if she can maintain her health on 15mg from now on.

Still, if you are losing your hair, as the Germans would say (in a Mel Brooke's show)... Something to zinc about!

 

[Hasen]

The Recommended daily intake is 15mg a day.

Even this amount is not easy to attain.

This is in about 25 eggs or 1.4kg chicken or 3.4 litres milk or 120g beef or 20g oysters.

It seems pretty easy to obtain if you eat oysters...or even beef.

 

[Richiebogie]

It seems pretty easy to obtain if you eat oysters...or even beef.

It could explain why Weston Price in the 1930's found so many Pacific Islanders relied on shellfish. Eg.

"It was particularly instructive to observe the diligence with which some of the isolated Maori near the coast sought out certain types of food in accordance with the tradition and accumulated wisdom of their tribes. As among the various archipelagos and island dwellers of the Pacific, great emphasis was placed upon shell fish. Much effort was made to obtain these in large quantities. In Fig. 74 (lower), will be seen two boys who have been gathering sea clams found abundantly on these shores. Much of the fishing is done when the tide is out. Some groups used large quantities of the species called abalone on the West Coast of America and paua in New Zealand. In Fig. 74 (upper), a man, his wife and child are shown. The father is holding an abalone; the little girl is holding a mollusk found only in New Zealand, the toharoa; the mother is holding a plate of edible kelp which these people use abundantly, as do many sea bordering races. Maori boys enjoy a species of grubs which they seek with great eagerness and prize highly. The primitive Maori use large quantities of fern root which grows abundantly and is very nutritious...

"The Maori race developed a knowledge of Nature's laws and adopted a system of living in harmony with those laws to so high a degree that they were able to build what was reported by early scientists to be the most physically perfect race living on the face of the earth. They accomplished this largely through diet and a system of social organization designed to provide a high degree of perfection in their offspring. To do this they utilized foods from the sea very liberally. The fact that they were able to maintain an immunity to dental caries so high that only one tooth in two thousand had been attacked by tooth decay (which is probably as high a degree of immunity as that of any contemporary race) is a strong argument in favor of their plan of life."

Weston Price: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration; Table of Contents

 

[tara]

I think Peat has suggested that if zinc supplementation is needed, 10mg a day would be a suitable level for a while? (Though he favours oysters.)

It could explain why Weston Price in the 1930's found so many Pacific Islanders relied on shellfish. Eg.

I'm agree about shellfish being a good source of nutrition.
Just thinking Maori traditional diet may not so much have been a matter of seeking out the high-zinc food, as seeking basic protein needs. In the absence of mega-fauna on land, it makes sense to go after kai moana (sea food). You take food where you can get it.

 

[Richiebogie]

@tara, yes I guess most people would like some seafood with their fern root!

It is interesting that old photos of Maoris, Fijians, and Papua New Guineans on the Kokoda trail below show thick curly hair. They traditionally ate yams and seafood:

http://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/c/c6/The_Fuzzy_Wuzzy_Angels-4.jpg

Even current Samoan Rugby players have great hair!

British Lion Tuilagi: All of a sudden it hit me... I might be deported from the UK

 

[Dragon]

...Just thinking Maori traditional diet may not so much have been a matter of seeking out the high-zinc food, as seeking basic protein needs. In the absence of mega-fauna on land, it makes sense to go after kai moana (sea food). You take food where you can get it.

hmm....I don't think they were simply 'seeking basic protein' needs. Price reported that the Maori specifically valued and sought out -shellfish-...."in great quantities"....even though they obviously were also capable anglers (i.e., they caught and ate regular fish too).

 

[tara]

hmm....I don't think they were simply 'seeking basic protein' needs. Price reported that the Maori specifically valued and sought out -shellfish-...."in great quantities"....even though they obviously were also capable anglers (i.e., they caught and ate regular fish too).

Sure, but even if you have good fishing skills, stationary shell fish is easier to get in places where it is abundant than free-swimming fish.

 

[Gl;itch.e]

Sure, but even if you have good fishing skills, stationary shell fish is easier to get in places where it is abundant than free-swimming fish.

Yup this would be the crux of it. There are also stories of how the native wood pigeon would eat karaka berries that were fermenting on the tree. This would make the birds basically drunk and dozy so the Maori could just walk up and grab the birds with zero effort.

The Maori also ate other birds like the giant Moa until they wiped them out.

 

[iso1]

I was researching some zinc forms, and if somebody have zinc deficiency and hair loss, taking zinc picolinate seems would be a bad idea ?

The tryptophan metabolite picolinic acid suppresses proliferation and metabolic activity of CD4+ T cells and inhibits c-Myc activation

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C-myc for example associated with hair growth.

Ectopic expression of c-Myc in the skin affects the hair growth cycle and causes an enlargement of the sebaceous gland - PubMed

These data implicate c-Myc in the control of hair growth cycling and hair cycle-related epidermal and sebaceous gland homeostasis. We suggest that c-Myc may be activating follicular stem cells either directly or indirectly and that this has important implications for control of the 'hair cycle...

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