Avoid these 4 Foods to Stop Hair Loss

The problem with food is that it can practically alter, affect or improve your body, including your hair and scalp. In some cases, certain foods could cause accelerated hair loss, or even make it a chronic problem.

Sometimes, a specific food does not cause much damage, but certain combinations, for long periods of time, could cause your hair to start to fall out.

1. Dairy products

Dairy products can become a BIG problem. Not only can they be very acidic for the body, they also trigger allergies and intolerances, so ideally avoid them.

In addition, dairy products on the market are almost always pasteurized, and the pasteurization process makes the natural enzyme of milk useless. It is this enzyme that allows us to digest milk, and without it our bodies have to work harder to digest it.

Moreover, dairy products also block pores and produce pasty skin. This means that the plaque of the epidermis is more likely to accumulate in the scalp, causing miniaturization of the hair follicle and thinning of the hair.

Therefore, the ideal is to consume unpasteurized dairy products or avoid them in most cases.

2. Carbonated drinks

Carbonated drinks form a lot of acid. In addition, thanks to their large amounts of sugar, they have been associated with baldness patterns in men.

There is strong evidence that early baldness in men could be a clinical marker of insulin resistance, a condition in which insulin sensitivity is lost, resulting in excess blood sugar.

Instead of drinking carbonated drinks, I recommend drinking simple water, vegetable juices, almond milk (homemade, if possible) or tea.

3. Cereals

These foods have such high glycemic indexes that they inevitably cause blood sugar spikes, something that leads to early thinning of the hair , as I had mentioned in the previous point.

Usually, processed cereals contain a very high glycemic load because the natural fiber of the plant has been removed. Resultantly, the process would cause it to be digested and absorbed into our bodies more slowly. Because of this, the sugars go directly to the blood, causing VERY high levels of it.

4. Fatty food

Fatty foods clog the arteries and also cause oily skin on the scalp. This usually causes miniaturization of the hair follicle, restriction in blood flow and obstruction of sweat pores.

As the pores of the scalp become clogged, DHT and other harmful hormones can become trapped and reactivate the hair loss mechanism.

A good shampoo could wash the scalp fat, but ideally avoid a very fatty diet. On the other hand, healthy fats can be healthy for hair, such as: avocado, nuts and olive oil.



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