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today we’re going to talk about hair

loss and a very common factor that seems

to be at the bottom of just about every

different type of hair loss now as you

might know there’s many different causes

of hair loss you have nutritional

factors that might be deficient you also

have testosterone forming into a very

powerful form of this Androgen called

DHT that can bind with the hair receptor

and inhibit the growth so you have that

and then you have another cause which

could be autoimmune where your hair root

cells are attacking itself preventing

the growth but I can’t stress this

enough

but the single most common factor among

all of these is stress now I’m talking

about several different types of stress

the most damaging stress to your hair is

emotional loss okay like a loss of a

loved one a divorce can be devastating

to your adrenals so you have that but

you also have other types of stress like

sustain chronic stress for some reason

you have environmental stresses you have

stresses in the world that are affecting

you you have family stresses

relationship stresses you have stress

from over training while you’re

exercising you have stress going through

pregnancy you have stress while you’re

going through some viral infection you

can also be very stressed out if your

sleep is not good because the lack of

sleep can really put your body under

stress so there’s many many different

types of stresses but what’s interesting

about stress that affects your hair is

that it’s nearly always delayed now

normally when you have a physical

problem

of some sort you’re going to identify

the cause and the symptom pretty quick

because the underlying cause usually

happens just before you get the symptom

but the problem with hair loss is

there’s usually a delay between one two

and even three months before the time of

stress and the time you start noticing

your hair is falling out and this is why

it’s very difficult to connect the dots

so let’s go through this there’s one

type of hair loss called telogen

effluvium now this is the type of hair

loss that’s definitely triggered by some

big stress and this includes trauma

going through a surgery and many other

different types of stress even being on

certain medications now let’s talk about

the next one called alopecia areata now

this is an autoimmune condition right

but the question is what triggers

autoimmune conditions well you guessed

it the same stresses that I’m talking

about in fact when I was in practice

every single single person who came in

with any autoimmune disease always

developed it after a stress event but

again the problem with this condition is

there’s this delay of one to three

months so it’s really hard to connect

the dots and the problem with autoimmune

diseases is the way that they treat it

is with synthetic cortisol or

glucocorticoids like prednisone or other

types of steroids and there’s so many

side effects and the treatment giving

someone cortisol gives a clue on what’s

really happening because they’re giving

a person this synthetic version of

cortisol cortisol is an

anti-inflammatory but when someone

experiences sustained stress over a

period of time

this can greatly suppress the immune

system and it can allow an autoimmune

condition to develop and then when you

get an autoimmune condition they’re

using a synthetic version of that

cortisol that suppresses the immune

system to treat the condition because

obviously the cortisol that they have in

the body is just not working that well

in fact there’s a high correlation

between people with autoimmune diseases

and a big problem with cortisol

dysfunction or cortisol resistance which

is kind of similar to insulin resistance

in which you have this massive amount of

cortisol but it’s not working in the

body so you don’t have the benefit of

what it’s supposed to do to the immune

system and you have a lot of

overreactions in the immune system like

allergies inflammatory conditions things

like that now another medication they

use for this alopecia areata is called I

think it’s pronounced argument and

despite having this box warning of these

you know slight side effects like

malignancy serious infection increased

mortality and thrombosis leading to a

cardiac death other than that it’s

pretty safe but again these medications

designed to

suppress your immune system come with a

package now let’s cover another hair

loss condition called

androgenetic alopecia this is where you

have that testosterone turning into the

very powerful form of testosterone

called DHT which burns out the hair

follicles it just so happens that stress

can also worsen the situation and create

more of this conversion but I will say

that there is a genetic component to

this type of problem because it involves

pattern hair loss both in women and men

and like I’ve said with a lot of other

videos is that just because you have a

genetic propensity to get a certain

condition doesn’t mean you’re going to

get it there are epigenetic factors

things that are way above genetics that

you can do to override this genetic

problem and of course reducing stress is

a big big factor now in a lot of videos

I talk about beneficial address versus

non-beneficial stress that really has to

do with who’s in charge or who’s

controlling the stress for example if

you dip yourself into an ice bath you

are in control of that stress and it’s

very very therapeutic another condition

is prolonged fasting where you’re in

control right but the stresses where

you’re seeming to be out of control is

where we have problems so androgenetic

alopecia can be greatly improved if you

deal with your stress now this condition

is also triggered by insulin resistance

okay so I just wanted to add that and of

course if we look at the stress factor

to this too you have stress increasing

cortisol cortisol is a glucocorticoid

which means it increases glucose and

this glucose can also be a trigger for a

worsening of your insulin resistance so

stress is a very common factor for this

type of condition now as far as a

nutritional deficiency causation you

have several nutrients involved you have

a deficiency of zinc deficiency of

vitamin D you also have a deficient

amount of B vitamins as well as calcium

and every single one of those nutrients

are affected by stress so stress can

also cause the deficiency of those

nutrients and an increased demand of

those nutrients so now as you can see if

you have hair loss you must address

stress to allow other things to work so

how do we do that let’s go through a few

things number one you want to make sure

your sleep cycles are handled because if

you’re going through stress but you’re

not sleeping it’s going to be very

difficult to overcome that stress one

thing that I’m doing right now that

seems to be working very very well and

I’ll have to do more of a video about it

is that the type of exercise that I’m

doing is very very intense but very low

stress on my adrenals okay involving a

weight rack and cables I’m using that

right now and I’m doing

Low Reps High weight it’s from the

concept that Mike metzer talks about and

I and I’ll put a video down below to

help you understand what that’s all

about but you’re really doing a high

amount of weight so you will not be able

to push past you know like 10 reps so

you’re stacking a certain amount of

weight so you’re doing between six to

ten reps okay to failure so you’re just

destroying that muscle creating a lot of

damage requiring about a week to two

weeks of rest but I’m only doing one to

two large muscles per workout so I might

do chess and triceps in one workout and

then I’ll do back and biceps and another

workout and then the third workout I’ll

do legs the next day but I won’t touch

those muscles for another week but it

gives my body a chance to rest it

doesn’t over train anything and it seems

to greatly improve my sleep next thing

I’m going to recommend is a physical

work around your house outside if you

can that always helps sleep because it

gets your mind off the mental stress the

third point I want to bring up is that

stress is always a symptom of something

else so yes you need to deal with the

stress but you really need to isolate

what the stress is and do whatever you

can to fully resolve the cause of that

stress number four keto and intermittent

fasting will improve your adrenals they

will improve the sympathetic nervous

system the flight or fight mechanism and

that by itself can greatly reduce stress

and the last thing is uh B1 vitamin B1

make sure it’s natural because the

synthetics don’t give you the same

effect I’ve done a lot of videos on B1

it’s very very powerful to help reduce

stress and improve your adrenals so I

think these five things will help you

more than anything for your hair loss

now that you have information to handle

the stress part I think it’s very

important to understand what else to do

about your hair and I put that video up

right here check it out