Hair Loss: The Missing Link
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 6 June 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today we’re going to talk about hair loss and trace minerals. If you’re deficient in trace minerals, you could be losing your hair—but why?
What is a trace mineral?
A trace mineral is a mineral that’s needed in very tiny (or trace) amounts. Trace minerals are helper nutrients in enzymes and proteins.
In your cells, you have tiny biological machines, which are proteins and enzymes. Those little proteins do the work of the body. They build certain body tissue, they break things down, and they are involved in all sorts of biochemistry.
Important trace minerals for hair:
1. Iron
If you’re anemic and you’re deficient in iron, one symptom can be hair loss.
2. Silicon
Silicon helps with the structure of your hair.
3. Zinc
If you’re deficient in zinc, you could develop male pattern baldness.
4. Copper
Copper is involved with the color of your hair and building collagen.
5. Selenium
This is one of the most powerful antioxidants.
These trace minerals can help with:
• Making protein
• Hair length
• Hair integrity
• Hair growth
Alopecia could be due to a deficiency in:
• B3
• Biotin
• Vitamin E
• Selenium
• Vitamin A
If you have dry hair, you may need essential fatty acids. It could also be that you can’t digest the fats because of a gallbladder problem, a missing gallbladder, or a lack of bile salts. Or, you may not have enough good bacteria to recycle bile.
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about the relationship between your hair and trace minerals. |
| 0:49.2 | If you're deficient in trace minerals, you could be losing your hair. The question is why. |
| 0:53.9 | Well, what is a trace mineral? |
| 0:55.3 | A trace mineral is a mineral needed in very, very trace or tiny amounts. And these trace minerals |
| 1:02.1 | are helper nutrients in enzymes and proteins. But I think a lot of people don't realize what that means, enzyme or proteins. |
| 1:14.4 | You know, you think about protein as your hair, nails, skin, muscle, ligaments, tendons, right? |
| 1:20.4 | Well, in your cells, you have very, very tiny biological machines, which are proteins, and their enzymes. So in other words, those little |
| 1:31.8 | proteins do the work of the body. They build certain body tissue. They break things down. |
| 1:39.2 | They're involved in all sorts of biochemistry. And they're quite amazing if you actually see what |
| 1:43.7 | they do. They're little worker bees doing all the work of biochemistry. And they're quite amazing if you actually see what they do. |
| 1:49.8 | They're little worker bees doing all the work of the body. So there's some really key trace minerals involved with your hair. One is iron. If you're deficient in iron and you're |
| 1:56.3 | anemic, one of the big symptoms is hair loss because you need iron to build strong hair. Some of the best foods |
| 2:04.3 | for iron or red meat, liver, things like that. And then we have silicon. Silicon helps the structure |
| 2:11.2 | of your hair. If you're deficient in silicon, you're going to find the integrity of your hair |
| 2:16.7 | is not going to be that great. It's not |
| 2:19.0 | going to be strong. It'll break. The ends will break. Also, silicon is very, very important, |
| 2:24.5 | and then the strength of your nails. And then you have zinc, which is probably out of all |
| 2:29.9 | these, one of the most important trace minerals, because it's involved in so many enzyme reactions. |
| 2:37.2 | If you're deficient in zinc, you could develop male pattern baldness. Okay, then we get copper. |
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