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so what is the most common cause of hair loss well  if you guessed androgenic alopecia you are correct  

now what is androgenic alopecia well it’s pattern  hair loss now in men it’s the receding hairline  

and also loss of hair on the top of your head  now in women it’s a little bit different it’s  

a kind of a diffuse thinning of the hair all  over now this is actually very very common  

it affects 50 to 80 percent of men and 25 to 50  percent of females at some point in their lives  

now the way hair loss medication works there’s  a couple different mechanisms one popular drug  

works by increasing oxygen nutrients and nitric  oxide to the scalp which increases circulation  

but most hair loss medications work by inhibiting  a certain enzyme and that enzyme is called 5-alpha  

reductase now what does this enzyme do well it  allows testosterone to be converted to a much more  

powerful form of testosterone called dht if  you have too much dht in your body what happens  

is you get a thickened dermis around the hair  follicles so it’s going to suffocate the hair  

follicle you get increased fibrosis that’s kind  of like a scarring which wraps around the hair  

and then you also get calcification around  the hair follicles so that’s what dht does  

to your hair so dht is a type of androgen  what’s ironic about androgens in general  

is they normally increase body hair  but then not on the top of your scalp  

they actually you get a loss of hair on the  top of your scalp which is pretty odd now let  

me just explain more about this enzyme five alpha  reductase now when someone experiences castration  

there’s a 95 percent decrease in androgens  and what happens at the same time is they stop  

losing their hair they stop experiencing  androgenic alopecia another point i want  

to bring up is people who are balding nearly  always have an increase of dht in their scalp and  

people who are deficient in this enzyme 5 alpha  reductase do not develop hair loss so apparently  

this enzyme is a key factor if you’re going to  develop hair loss or not my question is what  

increases this enzyme and if you guessed insulin  you guessed correct because insulin resistance  

hyperinsulinemia which is too much insulin and  other conditions that have too much insulin like  

pcos polycystic ovarian syndrome like obesity  like metabolic syndrome are all associated  

with androgenic alopecia also low progesterone  can increase this enzyme as well and where do  

you see low progesterone in menopausal women so  based on the data what do you think you should do  

get in a low carb diet start doing intermittent  fasting now there are natural things you can  

take to inhibit this enzyme as well because the  problem with taking a drug to inhibit this enzyme  

is there’s side effects with natural remedies  there are less side effects the big one is  

salt palmetto that is a great inhibitor of this  enzyme zinc can inhibit this enzyme dha which  

is an omega-3 fatty acid can inhibit this enzyme  and gla which is another specific type of fat can  

help you inhibit this enzyme all right thanks for  watching and i will see you in the next video so  

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