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today we’re going to talk about the 11

types of alopecia now what does the word

alopecia mean it comes from a greek word

uh alopex which means fox and the reason

why they talk about a fox is that

certain fox get an infection with mites

and they start losing their hair in

different patches

so that’s the origin of the word

alopecia now as i go through this

there’s a lot of new words that you may

not be familiar with just realize

they’re mostly greek or latin words that

describe the characteristics of what’s

happening with your hair so definitely

don’t get caught up with the names just

classifications of different types of

hair loss now some of these conditions

that i’m going to talk about

are not really

a hair loss

problem

that’s a symptom the underlying real

problem is the immune system

and so when someone has an autoimmune

condition they develop antibodies

against their own

tissues in certain types of alopecia you

have the body developing antibodies to

your own hair molecules and that creates

a loss of hair or some type of

thinning with the hair or damage with

the hair root or the hair just doesn’t

grow other types of alopecia could have

a genetic component but don’t get too

caught up in the genetics because

there’s something called epigenetics

which is above your genes and so you can

do things about this even though you

have a genetic problem and then there’s

a type of alopecia that is caused by too

much

dht which is a very powerful form of

testosterone so i’m definitely going to

get into the remedies

after i describe each type so let’s

start with number one alopecia

areata okay now what does the word

ariata mean

comes from the latin word which means

area as in a vacant space or a patch

okay

so this is where you see

patches of hair loss throughout your

hair because of a certain autoimmune

disease now there are certain types of

alopecia areata that i’m going to

describe right now this is going to

include different patterns of hair loss

hair loss to your eyebrows hair loss to

different parts of your body but with

this condition there’s usually a problem

with your t cells that’s part of the

immune system your body has some type of

confusion and it’s attacking the wrong

thing our own hair and so this general

type of alopecia areata can then get

worse

and

become alopecia ariatus totalis which

means that you have this

total hair loss in the top of your head

which i will get into in a minute or

alopecia ariata universalis

which is hair loss throughout the entire

body and the rest of the hair in your

body including your pubic hair and

axillary hair the hair underneath your

armpits and then the next type of

alopecia is called diffuse

alopecia

areata and sometimes referred as

incognita and don’t ask me why they use

these incredibly long names maybe to

make them sound very very scientific so

in this diffuse type instead of having

patches of hair loss you have

areas that are very very thin so the

hair follicle is very very thin and it

looks like there’s some patches then we

have the next type called alopecia

ariata ophiosis try to say that three

times

in this type you have hair loss on the

sides of the head as well as in the

lower back part of your skull this type

is uh really difficult to treat with

medications so

i would go with natural recommendations

which i’m going to get to okay so the

next one is called alopecia

this one is a loss of hair either on

your mustache or your beard this version

could also

occur with other types of hair loss as

well but it’s very specific to the beard

and mustache area all right the next one

is called

androgenic

alopecia another name for this would be

pattern hair loss now normally hair

grows in these little groups between

three and four hairs and so with this

condition you’re going to see those

little patches of hair or little groups

of hair start shrinking or atrophy and

so the number of hairs in these little

groups are going to get less and less

and less and eventually when they’re

gone you’re going to see more scalp than

you see here

and so androgenic alopecia

is

commonly known as male pattern hair loss

but you also have women pattern hair

loss too and this is the most common

cause of hair loss

in fact 50 of men over the age of 50

have this condition and 50 of women over

the age of 65 start developing this

condition and so in a man you’ll see

receding hair loss right through here

and then a loss of hair on the top part

of the head

and with women you’ll see more just

thinning on the top part of the head all

right this next one has a very long name

so we’re just going to call it

ccca okay just to make it really simple

so this type involves scarring on the

top of your head this is most common in

women that have an african descent and

adding some vitamin e oil in fact

massaging that into the scalp can be a

great thing to help break down some of

the scar tissue and also provide more

oxygen stimulation to the scalp but the

problem is if it’s there too long the

scar tissue

could get to the point where it’s it’s

permanent it’s irreversible all right

the next one is called frontal fibrosin

alopecia this one involves the sideburns

and the frontal part of your head this

mostly involves menopausal females but

it can also affect men as well so with

this you’re going to see a lot of

receding

the hair through here due to scar tissue

some people may lose their eyebrows or

eyelashes with this condition all right

the next one is called traction

alopecia and this occurs because there’s

strain or stress and the hair roots it

usually occurs when people have these

very tight hairstyles

so you have people who are using braids

dreadlocks or a ponytail or even using

certain chemical relaxers that can

weaken the hair so this constant

traction

actually pulls the hair right on the

scalp and the last one is called

chemotherapy induced alopecia

unfortunately the chemicals that use in

cancer therapy

destroy not just the immune system they

can destroy

different parts of your body including

the roots of your hair but as soon as

the chemotherapy is stopped the hair

should come back given the right

nutrition the person’s on and the

overall health of the immune system now

i do want to say one thing about

chemotherapy anytime someone goes

through chemotherapy it’s very very

important for them to also do

intermittent fasting and periodic

prolonged fasting

the fasting can greatly reduce the side

effects from chemotherapy as well as

radiation therapy all right so at this

point let’s talk about some really good

remedies that i would recommend if you

have any of these type of alopecia

issues number one rosemary oil is a

really great

natural oil to rub into your scalp

each night before you go to bed

there’s certain properties in rosemary

oil that are

great for many different types of

alopecia issues and as a side note

castor oil

is good for the loss of your eyebrows

now there’s a lot of things you can also

use

like onion juice and garlic oil and

green tea of course don’t put it on your

scalp hot but wait till it cools down

and you can rub into your scalp but

there’s many different herbal extracts

that can help stimulate the growth of

hair but in this list there are seven

things i’m going to talk about one is

the rosemary oil okay number two is

taking a really good probiotic why

because in many autoimmune conditions it

starts in your gut your gut becomes too

permeable it’s called leaky gut and you

have the entire immune system right

behind the barrier

and certain things get in there and you

start creating

all sorts of issues with immune wise

so a probiotic is very important

especially if you have a history of gut

problems that occurred just before you

start developing this hair issue i

always recommend to get a clue on what’s

causing your hair loss is just to look

back

in time and find out what occurred just

before you started to develop this

condition and it could be any condition

at all any body problem there’s always

something right before this that

triggered it it could be a severe

stress like a loss of a loved one which

by the way is behind a lot of autoimmune

diseases so this gives you information

to help you

try to undo some of the damage based on

what caused it if it was a stress

trigger then you can work on doing all

sorts of things to improve stress

both food wise environmentally and

certain supplements all right number

three zinc zinc is

essential if you have any immune issues

at all number four vitamin d

vitamin d and zinc for any immune

problems is very very important vitamin

d is an immune modulator it is the best

remedy for any autoimmune condition i’ve

done a lot of videos on this and i would

recommend taking

nothing less than 10 000 ius but

probably 20 or 30 000 ius of vitamin d

every single day all right the next one

is using an infrared type treatment on

your scalp there’s a lot of new

devices coming out that are like little

helmets that you put over your head the

infrared spectrum of light energy

is really good to help reduce androgenic

type problems with the hair because

what’s happening is we have this enzyme

that’s converting more free testosterone

to dht which is a very powerful form of

testosterone and that’s burning the hair

out and so anything that you can do to

interfere with that

process is a good thing and there’s a

lot of herbal things you can take too

like salt palmetto stinging nettle root

but the infrared

light on your scalp

has been shown to create some

significant improvement in your hair all

right so the next one and we fasting you

need to be doing intermittent fasting

okay and definitely periodic prolonged

fasting fasting for autoimmune

conditions to drop inflammation

for any genetic problems or weaknesses

is

dynamite as far as the effectiveness in

helping you put this thing back in

remission because we can never say cure

we’ll just say put it back in remission

fasting is probably one of the most

powerful epigenetic things you can do

especially if you have a genetic

predisposition to

any condition all right the last thing

is reducing your stress i’ve already

mentioned that but there are many many

things you can do to pull yourself out

of this stress state i’m talking about a

chronic stress situation where you’re

stuck between a rock and a hard place it

could be either environmental where

you’re in an environment where there’s a

lot of stress or

you had a severe loss there are many

things you can do in fact i want to put

up probably one of the most important

videos i’ve done on stress

right here so check that out

you