0:00 today we're going to talk about how to regrow your hair so whether you are losing hair or your hair is becoming thinner or you have alopecia this video is for you I wish I could say there was a magic pill you could just take to regrow your hair but there's a a couple aspects about this that uh you need to understand especially as it relates to your foods and your diet so what is hair hair is protein right it's a type of collagen and so do we just eat more protein that's the question well what is protein protein is bunch of amino acids the building blocks of proteins and out of all the amino acids uh there's one that's very very important it's called lysine lysine can have a huge effect over whether you grow hair or not it seems to be one of the most important
0:45 amino acids but it can affect the hair in many different ways the first being making sure your hair is very very strong and elastic okay so how do you get lysine what foods are high in lysine well not plant proteins or grain protein proteins both of those are very poor sources of Lysine one of the best sources is you guessed it red meat it's also an eggs and this is really relevant now because so many people are telling you not to consume red meat it's bad for you it's bad for the environment well I'll tell you right now grass-fed grassfish beef is very healthy for your body as well as for the environment so we definitely need the quality of protein right something that has high amounts of Lysine but also the quantity right how much protein you consuming enough protein if you're doing a high
1:33 quality protein you won't need as much if you're doing a lowquality protein as in plant-based proteins you're going to need a lot more but with that comes a lot of anti-nutrients specifically things like Fates which can block other factors that we're going to talk about so on average I would say if you consumed let's say six to eight ounces of protein twice a day I'm talking about like red meat uh or it could be eggs it could be other types of protein uh that would be sufficient another thing that's interesting about lysine is it helps you absorb iron and a lot of people with hair loss are low in iron iron is essential for making hemoglobin it's in your blood to supply the oxygen you need
2:18 in your scalp one of the big symptoms of anemia is hair loss so providing your scalp with enough iron so the hair follicules can have the nutrition is very very important lysine help you absorb it as well it's the same food that's high in lysine it's also high in iron red meat animal protein eggs but when we think of iron you want to think of about everything red like a red meat versus white meat like chicken has a little less it has some but it's very very high in red meat as well as organ Meats now I haven't left this topic of Lysine because there's a couple things so you need to know about it um when you go through stress the demand the need for lysing goes way up so if you're going through a lot of stress and you're
3:04 losing your hair that could just mean you need to increase more protein and another factor for the absorption of Lysine is if you have any type of inflammation in your gut you have malabsorption and that could be the reason why you're not absorbing these amino acids so here this person is eating a lot of grains thinking they're good creates inflammation the gut because of the gluten and other factors and then that person can't absorb amino acids and minerals anymore and so now they lose their hair so your gut is very very important as well and this could explain why a lot of people going on the carnivore diet uh get their hair back now I personally am not on the carnivore diet I like my vegetables and I also like my animal proteins as well but for those people that have gut inflammation
3:49 okay I think they should go on the carnivore for at least a few months because certain properties in that meat will heal the gut so there is a really interesting connection between your digestive system and your hair think of the digestive system as like the roots in the soil so the plant above the surface is what you can see and you can see if it's healthy or not well in our bodies the hair is the plant right and the roots are in the gut and this brings up another topic uh gut disbiosis or your friendly bacteria okay your gut microbes actually make amino acids okay they make certain proteins and if there's a disruption of the Flora inside you're G to have an alteration in the chora on the surface of your scalp
4:36 not to mention dandruff and other types of skin disorders so some people when they start getting on a probiotic from being on an antibiotic for a period of Time start noticing that their hair starts coming back and their hair is thicker interesting so we can't just look at the body in isolation we have to look at the whole picture and many times if you have an overgrowth or some type of fungal overgrowth or whatever on the surface of your skin the way that you fix it is through the internal gut you you have to start taking more probotics or prootic foods like sauerkraut kimchi kefir things like that let's talk about another thing it's called DHT this is a very powerful form of testosterone that has been known to um cause a burnout of the hair
5:22 follicules or even the thinning of the hair so there's all sorts of medications out there that inhibit this DHT and help you grow your hair but of course they come with side effects so what are some natural um DHT Inhibitors well a big one is zinc okay which happens to be in the red meat again too so consuming more red meat will actually kill three birds with one stone but zinc is very very important in regrowing your hair for other reasons too but it does inhibit this DHT problem but you also have lysine lysine itself can inhibit DHT so getting enough protein again will help you from many different areas you can also do pumpkin
6:09 seed oil you can do green tea extract you can do nettle root these are all natural Inhibitors of this DHT and if we can reduce that we can then eliminate that barrier if that's one of the causes of your hair loss now just as a side note lysine is the precursor for another molec called carnitine and I've talked about carnitine in other videos being very very high in red meat but cartine shuttles the fats into the mitochondria for fat burning or oxidation and this is why a vegan might be low in carnitine because they're low in lysine and this is another reason why people seem to get a lot of energy when they consume red meat now another interesting thing that
6:55 happens when you're low on lysine is that you might have a t tendency to have high triglycerides in your blood for this very reason there's low carnitine to shuttle the triglycerides into the mitochondria for energy production lysine also helps decrease stress because it can help lower cortisol it can help lower your heart rate in recovery it can help lower the risk of herpes infections which is to keep this virus in remission in one study apparently lysine can help lower glycation in the kidneys of diabetic rats and improving insulin resistance so this lysine molecule is quite widespread all right this leads us to the next topic chronic stress you could
7:40 definitely lose your hair with chronic stress a lot of people go through too much stress and they end up with alopecia autoimmune diseases and just general hair loss why is this because cortisol is a catabolic hormone it breaks things down and stress activates cortisol our bodies were not designed to to have this sustained high level of cortisol over a long period of time so how can we lower cortisol lower your stress and so what you have to know about that is that stress can deplete you of zinc and or increase the demand for zinc and zinc itself can help reduce stress and just as a side note um you need to really understand what can deplete you of zinc sugar alcohol and stress other things are really important
8:26 reducing stress and also helping your hair at the same time vitamin B1 other B vitamins too like B5 B12 which can help someone if they have anemia so you can actually have anemia from a lack of iron mb12 and other things too where are you going to get those B vitamins nutritional yeast is a good source but another way that a lot of people are helping their guts especially if they have a leaky gut or an inflamed gut to fix that they go in the carnivore for a period of time so these are just some things that I think you should be aware of and you should try as the most important actions to get back your hair now because of the censoring and the suppressing of the algorithms on YouTube it's becoming more difficult to find my content and there's a lot of content that I cannot put on YouTube
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