Hair loss on keto

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(Steaks b4 cakes! 🥩🥂) #27

Right back at ya. Luckily I have a lot of hair too so I’m hoping the damage will be minimal.
I’m wondering if it’s not worth me having my thyroid checked. Can’t hurt to find out?

(Steaks b4 cakes! 🥩🥂) #28

This right here!!! :raised_hands:

(Steaks b4 cakes! 🥩🥂) #29

Hmmm see this is also something I’ve been wondering…for the longest time I’ve been taking half a teaspoon of Himalayan salt in the morning, another in the afternoon and one before bed. I felt I needed quite a bit of sodium, but the past couple of weeks I’ve found I’ve not needed anywhere near as much. I’ve just not even thought about it! Even today I’ve been buzzing around the house clearing up after a sicky toddler and not once have I stopped to have any salt! Even though I don’t ‘feel’ like I need it, I’m wondering if there’s a connection here.

(Marianne) #30

I’ll give it a shot. This hair loss is really getting to me.

(Marianne) #31

I’d encourage you to have it checked. It’s a simple blood test, and at least you’d know. Plus, underactive (hypo) thyroid is pretty common. It’s an inexpensive prescription that takes care of it.

(Bunny) #32

Tip:

A way to make hair grow even better than before you went on a Ketogenic diet and help avoid this shedding problem when transitioning into keto:

  1. Bone broth (gelatin and collagen; eat on empty stomach; nothing to eat 4 hours before or 4 hours after)

  2. Organic Sulfur MSM (white powder usually comes in a clear plastic bag just add to drinking water)

  3. Organic Vitamin C (from eating chili peppers)

The Vitamin C is going to bind the collagen to the keratin along with the organic sulfur MSM (prevents the hair from falling out).

The kind of Vitamin C you get from pills is not the same-thing as you get from peppers, there are other biological things in that pepper that help you absorb the vitamin C, and the particulates are smaller.

Gelatin also makes your nails (super strong as well as hair) and skin thicker (gets thinner as you age) and more resistant to tearing or bruising.

References:

[1] How Can MSM Help Your Hair? “…MSM can improve your hair health in two ways. The first of which is by boosting the production of collagen throughout your body. MSM supplementation helps your body produce more keratin. Keratin, similar to collagen, is a type of protein that provides the building blocks for the structure of your hair and nails. …” …More

[2] Want longer thicker natural eye lashes without wearing fakes? Interesting Benefits of Castor Oil (a great compliment to above tip)

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(Steaks b4 cakes! 🥩🥂) #33

Thank you for this @atomicspacebunny :kissing_heart:
I’m not good with chilli peppers, but bone broth and MSM I can do!
I’ve been debating getting some good quality gelatin for a while now :thinking: I’ve seen it whizzed up in coffee!

(Bunny) #34

Or peppers in general, does not have to be chili…lol

I am biased, I love chili…lol

Not all peppers, are burning hot!

#35

Well NOW you tell me! :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Hey, I hope everyone here appreciates the irony of a bald guy giving “likes” to all the comments on this thread.

Just want you to know I’m sympathetic, and you’ve got my support. :wink:

(Marianne) #36

I can do green peppers, no problem, but not chilis. How many peppers are we talking?

(traci simpson) #37

Age could be a factor. It is for me! Seems to be hormonal and nothing to do with Keto.

(Bunny) #38

From what I’ve seen age is not a factor (young or older) and happens to some women but not all.

Probably variables with thyroid?

(traci simpson) #40

It depends on the person I guess. For me, my thyroid is perfect. A lot of the women that I hear talk, and have thinning or hair loss, it is due to menopausal or pre-menopausal issues.

(Bunny) #41

I always hear young women even in their teens complaining about how their nails are peeling like onions and can’t grow them; perhaps bad estrogens (xenoestrogens; DIM support)?

I think the biggest factor in this is nutritional deficiencies, no gelatin in the diet without sugar and no bone broth, and the depletion of the organic type sulfur in the agricultural soils to name a few. Soil being replaced by chemical fertilizers?

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Dimethyl Sulfone (MSM): Top 5 Benefits & Uses

Note: supplementing with man made mineral pills do not mean your absorbing it, the only way to absorb it is through animal organ meats especially the bones of animals or vegetables and some fruits but chemical fertilizers and ground soil depletion kind of destroys that aspect? Man made mineral supplements (pills) are like trying to stuff the Empire State Building (in micron particulates) into your cells compared to a golf ball (organic what you get from Mother Nature)!

(Steaks b4 cakes! 🥩🥂) #42

I love chilli too…but my lips don’t! :laughing:
They swell and take ages to go back to normal!

(Steaks b4 cakes! 🥩🥂) #43

This is very sweet of you! If you want some extra brownie points though, you could always come over and help us hoover up all the shedded hair on our carpets! I’ll give you a list of the places I’ve found hair…my mum even moaned about finding my hair in the utensil drawer the other day so I guess that needs to be sorted out too! :joy::joy:

#44

My hair sleuthing days are long behind me.

The worst it gets now is the occasional whisker tickling my nose. :slight_smile:

(Steaks b4 cakes! 🥩🥂) #45

I’ve had an idea!! I’ll gather up all the hair and make a nice wig out of it! I’ll feature it on the Keto Kraft thread…:thinking:

(Marianne) #46

I guess I should start eating chilis; natural lip filler!

(Steaks b4 cakes! 🥩🥂) #47

Hello all!

Just wanted to come back to this topic and provide an update/advice/remedies…for anyone in the future who searches hair loss and stumbles across this thread experiencing similar hair loss horrors, or for anyone experiencing hair loss at this current time. I know how shit it is, and I just wanted to provide some more info as I notice some threads on here don’t get revisited:-

Hair loss for me has been particularly painful - I’ve always loved my hair, and thought I’d managed to get away with the reported hair fall that ketoers experience. But I was wrong :rofl:

It has dramatically decreased in the last few weeks, mainly because I’ve taken extra steps. I’ve stopped fasting and HIIT’s which I now know after experimenting were massive stressors on my body. I clearly need the extra calories in the morning so in a weird way, hair loss has helped me to find this balance and realise I needed more food. I don’t hold back on protein now - I never really did, but I don’t pay attention to my protein target anymore, and I take a collagen supplement in the morning in my coffee which has made my skin look AMAZING!! Smoothed out some wrinkles and given my face a nice ‘dewy’ appearance.

One other thing that I will thank @atomicspacebunny for her wonderful advice, is MSM powder. This has helped the most I think. I’ll tell you now it tastes absolutely vile (think nail polish remover) so I encapsulate it and take about 5g of this a day but I take this religiously and I have noticed such a difference even in the growth of my eyelashes. My skin was particularly dry when the hair loss was at it’s worst which tells me that I was definitely lacking something and MSM powder brought some hydration back to my skin.

The final thing that I got was a special shampoo to help prevent hair loss. In the UK it’s called Waterman’s Grow Me shampoo and conditioner. Rather expensive but when I ran out for a few days I definitely noticed a few more strands in the shower using my normal stuff. It contains caffeine - I’m sure there’s an equivalent where ever in the world you are :slight_smile:

Anyway hope this helps someone in the future. Hair loss on keto is pants - it’s been the worst thing for me but it does get better. Eventually! :rofl::upside_down_face: