How to Regrow Your Hair (UPDATED VITAL INFO)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 9 December 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m going to cover the best natural ways to regrow hair.
Whether you’re losing hair, your hair is thinning, or you have alopecia—these tips for hair loss may help.
Hair is protein, and protein is made of amino acids. Lysine is a specific amino acid that greatly impacts hair growth. Lysine also helps make hair stronger and more elastic.
The best foods for hair growth are foods high in lysine, like red meat and eggs. Consuming six to eight ounces of high-quality protein twice a day will give you the protein you need.
Many people experiencing hair loss are low in iron. Red meat and eggs are high in iron, and lysine helps increase iron absorption.
When you go through stress, your body’s demand for lysine goes up. If stress is causing you to lose hair, you may want to try increasing your protein consumption. To regrow hair, it’s also crucial to lower your cortisol by reducing your stress.
Inflammation or a malabsorption issue in your gut could lead to a deficiency in lysine. Consuming grains or seed oils can lead to inflammation. If you have gut inflammation, you may want to try the carnivore diet.
It’s also important to support your gut microbiome because your gut microbes make amino acids. A disruption of your gut flora can cause a disruption in the microbes on your scalp. This can lead to issues like dandruff and skin disorders. A probiotic supplement or probiotic foods may help promote healthy, thick hair.
A powerful form of testosterone called DHT has been known to cause hair thinning or hair loss. Zinc is a fantastic natural DHT inhibitor, and it’s in red meat. Lysine also helps inhibit DHT.
Lysine is important to support a healthy body and has many other health benefits that may indirectly help with hair loss and support hair growth.
Great natural remedies for hair loss are:
• Pumpkin seed oil
• Green tea extract
• Stinging nettle root
• Nutritional yeast
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| 0:00.0 | 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 couple aspects about this that you need to understand, |
| 0:16.0 | 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. |
| 0:27.9 | Well, what is protein? Protein is a bunch of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. And out of all the amino acids, there's |
| 0:36.9 | one that's very, very important. It's called lysine. Lysine can have a huge effect over whether you grow hair or not. |
| 0:44.4 | It seems to be one of the most important amino acids, but it can affect the hair in many different ways. |
| 0:49.2 | The first being making sure your hair is very, very strong in an elastic. |
| 0:53.8 | Okay? So how do you get lysine? What foods are a high-end lysine? |
| 0:57.4 | Well, not plant proteins or grain proteins. |
| 1:00.6 | Both of those are very poor sources of lysine. |
| 1:03.4 | One of the best sources is, you guessed it, red meat. |
| 1:07.4 | It's also an eggs. |
| 1:09.0 | And this is really relevant now because so many people |
| 1:11.9 | are telling you not to consume red meat. It's bad for you. It's bad for the environment. |
| 1:16.4 | I'll tell you right now, grass-fed, grass-finished beef is very healthy for your body as well as for the environment. |
| 1:22.0 | So we definitely need the quality of protein, right? |
| 1:24.3 | Something that has high amounts of lysine, but also the quantity, right? How much protein? Are you consuming enough protein? |
| 1:32.0 | If you're doing a high quality protein, |
| 1:34.8 | you won't need as much. |
| 1:36.6 | If you're doing a low quality protein, |
| 1:38.4 | as in plant-based proteins, |
| 1:39.8 | you're gonna need a lot more, |
| 1:41.7 | but with that comes a lot of antineutrients specifically things like phytates which can block other factors that we're going to talk about. |
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