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Male Pattern Baldness
20 months vit.A free diet.
Receding hairline is improving (MPB-Norwood scale III), small and thin hair is now visible, only vellus hair but it is promising.
However graying hair (body, beard...) do not improve.
12 months VA free diet: 27 µg/100ml---> 0.96 µmol/L
Next lab test @ 24 months...
Genuine pic, I hope you see well, in addition some terminal hair regrowth, thick and dark.
@tropico Stop worry about your hair. Just cut your hair to 1 mm and you will be so much happier. Sooner you will do it the better and easier for you.. There is nothing worse than 70 yo guy trying to "safe" his hair.. Really.. Simply you have good genetics for hair or you don't. Most people don't have a good genetics. Nothing wrong with it.. If you are woman that is a different story, but for a guy? It is liberating to just shave your head and have zero concerns with it ever again.. 99% of people will tell you that it looks better to have short hair than to have really thin hair line... So it is win win on all fronts..
Good article on mpb:
A hypothetical pathogenesis model for androgenic alopecia: clarifying the dihydrotestosterone paradox and rate-limiting recovery factors
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987717310411
I see it talks a lot about "chronic inflammation", even mentions gingivitis.
Yeah it discusses stress on the galea aponeurotica from jaw and skull growth issues leading to inflammatory events where DHT participates in calcification and fibrosis. It also discusses the findings of a pathologist a century ago who found that the blood supply through the skull bone was often calcified and narrowed or blocked in balding men. Steroid use is associated with heart disease implying DHT is involved in diminishing blood supply in the scalp too.
I have major TMJ jaw issues, I'd be interested to hear how many balding men here don't suffer from that as well as how many do.
Hypervitaminosis A can fit into the model presented in multiple ways. Firstly, it can disrupt thyroid function and affect hormonal balance leading to excess DHT. Secondly, Hypervitaminosis A can cause calcification in arteries. Thirdly, it can cause deficiencies like zinc deficiency which upregulates the activity of 5 alpha reductase in the scalp producing excess DHT there.
Fibrosis and Hypervitaminosis A anyone?
I’ve suffered from many of these issues, chronic inflammation, balding and thinning Hair, gingivitis, periodontal disease and some jaw pain issues in my life but not bad enough to see a doctor. I think the root cause for me is all my mercury fillings I’ve had since childhood, and from this probably an inability to handle vitamin A very well. Vitamin A being the root cause doesn’t make sense to me cause most people seems fine consuming vA.