The Top 3 Foods for Hair Loss
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we're going to talk about the importance of histidine in helping to prevent hair loss and what foods you should incorporate into your diet to support healthy hair. A study has shown that over 90 percent of people suffering from alopecia are deficient in an amino acid called histidine. This essential amino acid is a precursor to histamine, which plays a vital role in immune reactions, allergies, and inflammation. Deficiencies in histidine can lead to anemia, while excessive intake can cause premature ejaculation. However, the right amount of histidine in your diet can promote healthy hair growth by helping to produce keratin and regulating copper and zinc levels. Certain medications and alcohol consumption may lower histidine levels in the body, while inadequate stomach acid can hinder its absorption from food sources. To counter this issue, betaine hydrochloride can be taken as an acidifier. But to fully utilize histidine, specific co-factors must be present, such as vitamin B6, proper copper and zinc ratios, and folate. The top three foods that can help combat hair loss are: 1. Organ meats, including liver, due to the histidine and other essential nutrients they contain. 2. Animal proteins, such as beef and chicken, are rich in histidine and other amino acids necessary for hair regeneration. 3. Shellfish, particularly shrimp, scallops, and crabs, provide high levels of zinc and copper that can help maintain proper ratios in the body. It's important to note that having enough folate in your diet is essential for hair development. It's best to obtain folate from natural sources, as taking supplements such as folic acid may inhibit the conversion of histidine into its active form.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about exactly what food you should be eating to help |
| 0:03.6 | regrow your hair and this is not about taking another supplement this is |
| 0:07.2 | talking about your foods. There's something I stumbled on recently that's actually |
| 0:12.3 | very interesting I'm going to share with you. It's from this |
| 0:14.5 | paper that I read that had something in it that just jumped out at me that I've never |
| 0:21.0 | heard before and then I did a deep dive into this one single |
| 0:25.4 | amino acid and I found some amazing things okay so I'm gonna share that with you |
| 0:30.4 | today so I think most people know that hair is made out of |
| 0:34.3 | protein and you would think if you just eat in a protein you know your hair would |
| 0:39.0 | come back but that doesn't always work. In this published paper, it went through various deficiencies |
| 0:46.7 | that were found on certain percentage of people |
| 0:50.4 | with hair loss. |
| 0:51.8 | And then I get to this one amino acid that was deficient in over 90% of people with alopecia. |
| 0:58.2 | And this amino acid is called histidine. And no, I would not recommend going out and just getting it and taking it because I think it's really important to understand why you might be deficient, if at all. |
| 1:09.0 | It's not an abundant amino acid, but histidine is a precursor to histamine, okay, which is involved in immune |
| 1:17.5 | reactions, allergies, inflammation, healing, things like that. If you're deficient in histidine, you could be anemic because the need for that amino acid to build red blood cells. |
| 1:30.4 | It's great for your skin if you have eczema or any type of dermatitis. If you take too much of it you can get premature ejaculation, so that's one interesting function. |
| 1:39.0 | It's going to be directly involved in making the keratin protein of your hair to make your hair strong and |
| 1:46.3 | more hydrated as well as regulating the copper and zinc that the hair needs as well. |
| 1:54.0 | And if someone is also taking medications or drinking alcohol, |
| 1:59.0 | that amino acid can be a lot lower. |
| 2:02.0 | If a person doesn't have the right stomach acids, they're not |
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