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I want to show you

three simple but very important trace

minerals that can hopefully reverse

alopecia now alopecia is an autoimmune

disease that directly causes patches of

hair loss throughout your scalp and

there are other autoimmune diseases like

Hashimoto’s and lupus that can also do

the same thing how can a trace mineral

deficiency cause you to lose your hair

well trace minerals are minerals needed

in very tiny amounts but just because

they’re needed in tiny amounts doesn’t

mean they don’t have a profound effect

over your body these trace minerals are

essential for a lot of different things

regarding hair they’re essential in

preventing autoimmune diseases also in

treating autoimmune diseases as well as

their effect directly in building up

the hair protein itself you know when we

think about protein people think about

muscles but there are a lot of other

types of proteins in your body that

people don’t consider proteins enzymes

for example and I’m not just talking

about digestive enzymes I’m talking

about the enzymes that are involved in

your biochemistry that help make

hormones that help do the work of the

body relating to the thyroid you

actually have enzymes that actually make

body tissue regarding thyroid hormones

you have enzymes that actually can

convert the inactive thyroid hormone

which is T4 to the active thyroid

hormone which is T3 and then you have

proteins involved in your immune system

that keep your immune system strong that

prevent you from a self-attack or the

creation of antibodies against your own

tissues and out of all the minerals

there’s three trace minerals that are

very important to make sure that you get

in your diet and understand other things

that can create the deficiency so let’s

first talk about iodine you probably

already know iodine is necessary to make

thyroid hormones through enzymes and as

you’re deficient in iodine you can’t

make thyroid hormones and when we’re

dealing with a thyroid autoimmune

problem

there’s some data out there that

suggests that too much iodine can cause

an autoimmune disease but there’s

overwhelming evidence that that’s

actually not true it’s usually a

deficiency of iodine that can create

more of a problem than in excess an

average person is deficient in iodine

because it’s hard to get from our food

because it’s not in our soils so unless

they eat something from the sea they’re

usually not going to get enough iodine

unless they’re taking something like sea

kelp or seaweed or in parts of the world

where you eat a lot of seaweed which is

definitely not in America we primarily

get our iodine from sea salt and even

that we probably don’t get enough iodine

to satisfy all the requirements that we

need when someone is deficient in iodine

they get an out of control

estrogen level because iodine helps

buffer estrogen and when they don’t have

enough iodine and they get too much

estrogen they can develop cysts on the

ovaries they can develop fibrocystic

rest they can even develop nodules on

the thyroid gland itself another

interesting thing about iodine is that

you can be deficient not from your diet

but from other things interfering with

the absorption of iodine like

fluoride okay whether you’re getting

some type of dental whitening type

therapy or you’re drinking tap water

with fluoride as well as chlorine

chlorine also interferes with iodine so

there’s three big things that can

interfere with iodine fluoride chloride

and bromine which is in a lot of

enriched flower products as in the bread

pasta cereal crackers biscuits things

like that which you’re probably not

eating because you’ve been watching my

channel but there’s another source of

fluoride that you may not suspect in

fact 20 percent of all medications out

there are fluoride based including

Prozac statin drugs other

antidepressants certain antibiotics

certain antacid medications as well as

certain anti-inflammatories all contain

fluoride which can interfere with iodine

and by the way as far as the amount of

of iodine you need on a daily basis I

would recommend about 200 micrograms

okay not milligrams micrograms iodine is

very very important in a growing child

if a child or an infant is deficient

they can develop all sorts of cognitive

deficiencies but seek help Seafood sea

salt is all good to take if you want to

build up your iodine now the next Trace

mineral is called zinc okay zinc as you

know is very very important in your

immune system and when people get

autoimmune diseases they’re usually

deficient in zinc and this zinc

deficiency allows a condition where your

immune system can get out of control but

the best bioavailable sources of zinc is

from meat fish and eggs not plant-based

sources plant-based sources are not good

sources of zinc one of the most common

causes of a zinc deficiency is by

consuming too much cereal okay cereal

has phytates just like any grains and

these phytates block minerals especially

zinc zinc is one of the most important

minerals for your immune system and

without it you’re very very susceptible

to infections and other problems

including inflammation the zinc directly

is involved in certain

enzymes which are proteins that actually

build up your hair and as far as the

amount of zinc if you were going to take

it as a supplement I would recommend

about 50 milligrams but if you’re

consuming things like red meat or even

beef liver or even oysters or seafood

chances are you’re getting enough zinc

but if you’re exposed to Mercury that

can increase the need for more zinc if

you consume a lot of sugar or you’re

exposed to a lot of stress your

requirement for zinc goes dramatically

up okay the next mineral is selenium

selenium is involved in 35 different

proteins okay and again I’m talking

about those protein enzymes that do most

the work in the body if you’re deficient

in selenium you can start getting

graying of the hair you can start

developing alopecia directly or a

deficiency of selenium can lead to

Hashimoto’s selenium is a catch-22

because

deficiency can create a problem with

alopecia and an excess or a toxicity can

create alopecia so it’s one of those

trace minerals that you just need just

the right amount you don’t want to take

more more is not better Mercury can also

interfere with selenium a lot of women

who are pregnant are deficient in in

selenium not to mention zinc and even

iodine so this is just another reason

why if someone is going through

pregnancy it’s so important to take

these trace minerals now there are also

genes that help you absorb selenium and

there also could be a genetic mutation

that causes difficulty in getting enough

selenium so in this case if you’re just

getting the minimum amount you may have

deficiency symptoms and you can get a

genetic test to determine this and I’ve

been doing a deep dive in this DNA topic

which I’ll do more videos on but so many

people have genetic problems with

minerals and vitamins and this

especially relates to like B12 folate

vitamin D and even vitamin C the other

interesting thing about selenium is that

it seems to control vitamin E levels it

protects a person from becoming

deficient in vitamin E maybe because of

selenium is a precursor for glutathione

which is a powerful antioxidant and

other antioxidants as well the amount of

selenium the person needs would be

between 50 micrograms to 200 micrograms

which really is a tiny amount one Brazil

nut is enough to satisfy what you would

need don’t need to hold back okay just

one at a time per day because you can

actually get a toxic amount fairly quick

there are other nutrients as well that

greatly influence the hair and I’m just

going to quickly run down the list iron

okay in B12 primarily because of the

function of what they can do to increase

your oxygen levels and your blood levels

your red blood cell levels to your scalp

without this blood and oxygen to the

scalp the roots of the hair can’t

survive and probably the biggest reason

why women are deficient in iron is

because of menstruation and if that’s

your problem I put a link down below of

how to correct that specific issue

regarding B12 it could be that you’re a

vegan or it could also be that you have

genetic issue with a problem called

methylation for more information I put a

link down below with that too now

vitamin D very very important with any

autoimmune disease because it reduces

inflammation and even though a vitamin D

deficiency

doesn’t cause like alopecia directly it

can cause a loss of body hair which is

more of a alopecia for the entire body

but not necessarily just on the scalp

but if you have any type of autoimmune

problem you should be taking vitamin D

on a daily basis roughly about twenty

thousand IUS now let’s talk about Biotin

for a second a lot of people take biotin

in very large amounts biotin is vitamin

B7 it’s and it’s involved in protein

synthesis especially the hair and the

nails but if you’re deficient in biotin

is your hair is going to be very dry and

Frizzy you might experience shedding of

the hair you may have just general hair

loss a couple reasons why people are

deficient in biotin because your gut

Flora makes it it could be you have

taken antibiotics it could be you

consume a lot of raw eggs which by the

way the egg yolk

is the thing that has the most biotin

but if you have raw eggs there’s a

certain compound in there that locks up

your biotin so you could become

deficient another cause would be

pregnancy which increases the demand for

biotin or you may have a genetic problem

with a certain protein that helps you

absorb Biotin and you have a problem

with that which means you just need a

little bit more and lastly folate this

is interesting because a folate

deficiency is a very common deficiency

even though folate comes from dark leafy

green vegetables a lot of people have a

problem with a certain Gene called

MTHFR which requires them to consume

more folate not folic acid but folate so

they can start to build up some of these

proteins including hair now I talked

about one problem with hair loss if you

haven’t seen this video on hairless

which covers other things you should

check it out I put it up right here