During sex or masturbation testosterone levels increase and at the point of ejaculation, some testosterone is converted into DHT. If the DHT makes it to the scalp and the scalp is sensitive to DHT, the result could be increased hair loss.

What is the solution?

There are several ways of combating this problem. You can stop masturbating or having sex (at least to the point of ejaculation), you can inhibit DHT production using saw palmetto, prescription hair loss medication or with dietary changes, or ideally, you can stop the DHT from reaching your scalp by making your body’s hormonal processing system more efficient.

My personal approach is a mixture of the latter two options. I’m not a fan of the prescription medication approach and I feel that taking saw palmetto supplements everyday for the rest of your life is not a satisfactory solution to stopping hair loss, since it relies on continued use of a supplement.

I think that for the average person a saw palmetto supplement is an adequate short-term solution. However I would advise that if you want a more complete solution you should aim to solve the problem at it’s root, by improving the efficiency of your body’s hormonal processing capabilities.

To learn how to do this download my hair loss ebook today.

Although these treatments are clearly tackling known causes of hair loss, none of the companies producing them seem to be answering the question, “why do these causes begin taking effect in some individuals in the first place?”. What is it that changes in some people’s bodies that makes them start to lose hair?

These are surely the most important questions. For if we can solve these problems we can truly cure hair loss, not just treat it.

Currently it seems that none of the hair loss treatments available on the market address the root causes of hair loss. Perhaps this is a way to sustain long-term profits in the multi-billion dollar industry or perhaps hair loss treatment manufacturers simply don’t yet have the understanding of human biology to properly cure the root cause(s) of hair loss.

Root cause analysis

In order to properly solve any problem you have to find the ‘root’ of it. If you do not solve a problem at it’s root you are likely to be only temporarily treating one of it’s symptoms.

For example, you might achieve mediocre success in staving off hair loss by using a DHT inhibitor supplement. But really what you should be doing is bringing DHT production down naturally from within your body.

The same goes for circulation. Weak circulation in the scalp is another cause of hair loss. But doing exercises like scalp massages that temporarily boost circulation in the scalp is only a short term, temporary treatment. It’s better to improve your circulation to the extremities by solving problems in your blood vessels, your blood and other parts of your body, thus naturally boosting blood flow to your scalp at all times, rather than just while you do the exercises.

Stop Hair Loss in Six Steps, Guaranteed

Getting to the root of hair loss is the underlying theme of my whole book. I explain the six most significant causes of hair loss: DHT, poor circulation in the scalp, blocked pores in the scalp, stress, poor nutrition and poor liver efficiency. And then I explain how to make each of these areas work to your advantage: low DHT levels, strong circulation, clear pores, relaxed mind, excellent diet for hair growth and strong liver.

By eliminating each of the underlying causes of hair loss you don’t need to use temporary fixes that inhibit DHT or boost circulation – because your body is now in the correct state for hair growth, from the inside and the outside.

If you want to use my approach to stopping hair loss and regrowing hair, download my eBook today.

In this article I explain the top 5 causes of hair loss and how you can tell whether they apply to you.

DHT

DHT, or ‘dihydrotestosterone’ is a by-product of testosterone. It’s more common in men and is what causes male pattern baldness, or ‘androgenic alopecia’. It’s called androgenic alopecia because it’s hair loss related to the androgen hormones. You’re most likely to be suffering from hair loss caused by DHT if your hair line is receding, your crown is thinning or the hairs at the front or crown of your head are becoming thinner in diameter.

If you’re male and you have the signs described above it’s likely that your hair loss is caused primarily by DHT. DHT is the most common cause of hair loss.

DHT also causes increased body and facial hair. So if you have quite a lot of body hair and facial hair, as well as thinning hair on your scalp, you may have elevated DHT levels.

The answer to this problem is to inhibit DHT production and to remove DHT from the scalp. Keep reading to the end to learn how to do this.

Stress

Stress is a top cause of hair loss. But it’s not stressful situations that cause hair loss, it’s the way in which you deal with stress that decides whether it will effect your hair. If you are a calm, relaxed person who does not worry about stressful situations too much, it’s unlikely that stress is causing your hair loss.

Stress can sap nutrients from the body that are essential for hair growth. The hair suffers because the body’s resources are saved for more vital uses in the body. As a result the hair suffers as it is not essential. Stress can also effect hormonal levels, which can have a knock on effect on the liver and DHT levels.

If you have a calm and relaxed outlook on life and you are still losing your hair, it’s likely that DHT or another cause explained in this article is responsible for your hair loss. However, if you know that you worry easily or feel anxious easily, it’s quite likely that this is causing you to lose hair.

Fortunately it’s possible to remedy this by supplementing for the nutrient loss through stress and by using effective methods of making you relax and react calmly in stressfully situations. Keep reading to learn how to do this.

Poorly performing liver

The liver plays such an important part in your appearance and a poorly performing liver will almost certainly cause hair loss. There is a direct link between the efficiency of your liver and ‘sebum’ levels on your skin. Sebum is an oil secreted through the skins pores. It can have a negative effect on hair growth as it contains DHT and it can clog the pores in the scalp, preventing hair growth.

The liver processes fats and hormones among other things. If the liver has low levels of a certain essential ‘coenzyme’ called coenzyme A, sebum levels can increase to above normal levels. Coenzyme A breaks fat down. But if coenzyme A levels are low and/or the liver is working inefficiently, the body has no choice but to secrete fats in sebum through the skin.

As we age our livers operate less and less efficiently due to imperfect diets, alcohol consumption, medicine use (e.g. paracetamol), smoking and even just breathing polluted air. So if you can get your liver working more efficiently and increase coenzyme A levels you can have not only a positive impact on hair growth but also a total revitalization of your whole body – both in the way you feel and the way you look. I’ve developed a thorough and extremely effective method of achieving this. Keep reading to find out how I did it.

Poor circulation of blood in the scalp

Hair needs a supply of nutrients in order to grow. How do these nutrients get to the hair? They are carried to the hair shaft in the blood via blood vessels in the scalp. If the volume of blood pumping through the tiny blood vessels that connect to the hair papilas is reduced, so is the supply of raw materials that are used to build hair.

Reduced blood flow to the extremities is common with aging. Smoking, pollution, diet and other factors can cause reduced blood flow to the scalp. So it’s another reason why hair tends to get thinner as we age. What’s the answer? It’s simple; increase the flow of blood into the scalp. But how do you do that? There are several simple exercises you can do to increase blood flow to the scalp (and these do help), but ideally you want to improve blood flow to the extremities by solving the problem from the inside – properly. Fortunately this is another cause of hair loss that can be fixed. Again, keep reading to find out how.

Inadequate diet

Though I am a believer in eating healthily I’m not one of those people who is obsessed with only eating salad and never eating cake or pie. I eat my fair share of junk food in all honestly, but I don’t have a problem with weight and I exercise regularly.

I don’t think diet is the most important factor in hair growth – but it is a factor. The reason I say this is because if you observe tramps (yes, homeless people), you might notice (at least I have in my area) that they often have quite good thick hair (despite being dirty and greasy). Yet tramps have terrible diets and they tend to drink like fish.

However there are cases where I think diet can have an impact on hair. These are:

• If you ever experience crash dieting;
• you do a great deal of exercise;
• you lead a very stressful life; and/or
• you don’t get enough sleep.

So, if any of the above apply to you, diet may be a factor in your hair loss. I’ve been through all of the scenarios listed above, in normal life and through my ethnographic experimentation; and I can report that in my experience they have all had a major impact on my hair in the past.

I experimented with bowl cleansing a detoxing diets that involved fasting and I noticed hair loss after fasting because I did it wrong. Fortunately this sort of hair loss is reversible and doesn’t take long to reverse. It’s also possible to complete detox programmes and weight loss programmes safely without effecting your hair, providing you understand and follow some important principles.

Getting enough sleep and reducing stress in my life were difficult hurdles to overcome because I’m so busy and I went through a long period of experiencing social anxiety in my life a few years back (which is fairly common in young men). Fortunately I found a remarkably effective way of changing my mind set using an audio programme I developed for the book. I cured my social anxiety because I knew I had to in order to stop my hair loss. This was an important step for me.

So you can see that by dealing with stress in your life and following some simple guidelines around dieting and eating, you can solve the diet related hair loss problem without having to alter your diet greatly – if tramps can have good hair without living on a diet of organic salad and steamed vegetables, so can you!

That said it’s worth making sure you get some important nutrients in your diet. I use several ‘superfoods’ that make it easy to get an abundance of nutrients in my diet without the hassle of very strict dietary guidelines.

When you combine the abundance of nutrients with the increased blood flow to the scalp, efficient liver, clear DHT free scalp and low stress levels, you can see how it’s very possible to get your hair not only maintained but growing back fast.

In conclusion

If you’ve read this article from start to finish, you’ll see that despite the daunting task stopping hair loss seems to be, it is very possible. It’s simply a case of reversing each of the causes, so that they work in your favour. Let’s take an example:

1. Hair loss cause: You have weakened circulation to the scalp
2. Solution: Fix the problem so your circulation is strong again
3. Regrow hair: Boost circulation to the scalp to higher than normal healthy levels to supply the hair with even more nutrients than a normal healthy scalp gets.

Now, you’re not only stopping hair loss by eliminating a root cause, you’re using it to grow new hair.

You can do the same with each of the causes. By not only reducing stress levels, but making yourself even more relaxed and calm than most people (using my audio programme), you turn stress from a cause of hair loss, to (lack of stress as) a cause of hair growth.

If you want to find out:

• how I remove DHT from my scalp;
• how I inhibit DHT production in my body;
• how I turbo charge circulation to my scalp;
• how I conquer stressful situations, reacting calmly when other people stress out; and
• what foods I use to feed my hair with everything it needs,

download my hair loss eBook today, half price; get the audio programme free and all buyers of edition one will get edition two (set for release 2011) free, including a brand new set of audio files.

A note about edition 2

I’m currently in the process of planning edition 2, which will only be available in digital format. It’s going to include video tutorials, new audio files, more tables and check lists, as in the first edition, and will hopefully be a little more concise, for rapid digestion. Stay tuned for more information.

The silly thing is, it’s easy to get all the nutrients your hair needs, while also following a weight loss program. Keep reading to find out how.

Areas of dieting you should avoid to prevent hair loss

Crash dieting

Crash dieting is the worst thing you can do for your hair. If you’re going to diet for weight loss reasons, steadily transition from your current diet to your new weight loss diet. If you suddenly make a massive change to your diet and then just as suddenly change again (and so forth), you could have a negative impact on your hair growth. However the effects on your hair might not show for months after you have changed your diet, because the dieting is more likely to slow your hair growth and even turn some hairs dormant – so only once the hairs have naturally shed will you notice your hair looking thinner.

Dieting is only likely to cause immediate hair loss as a result of stress caused by an extreme dietary transition.

Diets that don’t include a full range of nutrients

If you follow a silly fad diet like ‘the apple diet’ or other diets that advise you to eat only a few different foods you may become deficient in vital nutrients required for hair growth. Nutrient deficiency is fairly rare in the West, where food is readily available, but if you follow an extreme diet and you experience increased stress as a result, you might become deficient in some key nutrients.

Diets that include too much of one nutrient

Be careful about eating too much of one thing. For example Brazil nuts are sometimes cited as beneficial for the hair because they contain a mineral called ‘selenium’. Selenium can inhibit DHT, which will help prevent hair loss. However eating too many Brazil nuts could result in a selenium overdose, which in turn may cause a condition called ‘selenosis’ (cite). One of the symptoms of selenosis is hair loss.

Some key factors to consider when dieting

Don’t do anything extreme. Avoid extreme changes in your diet. Don’t take a variety of supplements in the hope you’re getting lots of great nutrients for your hair – different vitamins, minerals and fats interact with each other. You might be taking one supplement that contains a mineral that binds with a vitamin in another supplement you’re taking, making it indigestible. Try to keep supplements down to as few as possible unless you know what you’re doing – otherwise you’re chucking lots of different pills down your throat that could be doing more harm than good.

How to safely diet for weight loss while keeping your hair healthy

Providing you don’t stress your system by crash dieting and you consume a good range of nutrients in good proportions you can easily follow a weight loss diet without harming your hair. Follow these tips to keep your hair healthy while dieting:

Reduce portion sizes while maintaining a good balance

If you’re trying to reduce your calorie intake, eat at the same times and the same foods you would usually eat but just reduce the portion sizes. Don’t cut out carbohydrates for the sake of reducing calories. You need complex carbohydrates for energy. If you reduce the fuel you’ll reduce your energy, which might make you need to snack, which will not help your weight loss attempts. If you reduce your fuel intake and avoid snacks, the increased stress might have an adverse effect on your hair. The answer is to reduce your portion sizes while maintaining a good balance of carbohydrates, fats, fiber and protein.

Exercise

Exercise is possibly the most important factor in weight loss. If you can increase the amount of exercise you’re doing while maintaining your current food consumption levels you will achieve weight loss without needing to change your diet. Exercise also benefits stress levels and circulation.

Don’t miss meals

Eating regularly is important. By missing meals you’re telling your body that food is scarce so it needs to store fat reserves – as a result you won’t lose weight; you could even put weight on. It’s better to eat smaller meals, more regularly, if you find you get hungry regularly. Cut down on sugars and simple carbohydrates that spike your blood sugar levels. Choose complex carbohydrates like oatmeal and sweet potatoes that will provide slow release energy.

Cleanse your digestive system

By avoiding meats and fats in the morning and eating foods that are high in fiber you give your digestive system a break allowing it to cleanse. Try to keep meat eating down to a minimum while dieting. Try to only eat meat every other day or even just once or twice a week. Avoid beef and pork. Go for chicken and turkey. Don’t eat for two hours before you go to bed to let your body wind down. Never eat before bed because your body cleanses at night. Eating prevents cleansing and food eaten before bed will be stored as fat.

Use a hair loss supplement

Although I don’t generally advise the use of hair loss supplements (as I don’t feel they’re necessary – if you follow the instructions in my hair loss eBook you won’t need to take any hair supplements), if you worry that your hair isn’t getting the nutrients it needs, a supplement can put your mind at rest. Take a look at my hair loss treatments page for advice on different supplementation for men and women.

Get the best advice on food for hair growth

If you want to know what foods you should eat to maximize nutrients required for hair growth download my eBook today. I dedicate a chapter to showing you how to eat for hair growth. I give you easy to follow tips that don’t require eating disgusting foods or following extreme dietary practices. I lay down all the best foods that provide maximum nutrients for hair growth in simple to follow tables, charts and lists. I also show you how to cleanse your digestive system and increase the flow of nutrients to the scalp by increasing blood flow to the scalp. In the food chapter I also show you how you can use food to normalize your hormone levels and inhibit DHT levels.

Testosterone is a male hormone but it is also present (in lesser amounts) in women. Generally speaking the more testosterone in the body, the more extreme the male characteristics will be. If you look at a bull and a cow, the bull is far more muscular and far more aggressive. Both bulls and cows have the same diet. The difference is the bull has far higher testosterone levels.

DHT: a by-product of testosterone

It’s clear that men tend to experience hair loss more so than women. That is because men tend to have more testosterone in their body’s. DHT is a by-product of testosterone. In general, as we age, more DHT is produced from testosterone. DHT seems to cause hair loss and also body hair growth.

Some people’s hair is more susceptible to the effects of DHT than others. Some people’s body’s tend to produce more testosterone than others. Some people will experience more of an elevation in testosterone as a result of starting a weight lifting/body building routine, while others will not experience much of a change. And some people seem to produce more DHT from testosterone than others.

So in answer to your question:

Yes, weight lifting or body building may cause an increased rate in hair loss, IF you are one of the people who is both susceptible to the negative effects of DHT and your weight lifting/body building routine results in an increase in testosterone levels.

From what I know about body building, most people who work-out hard will experience an increase in testosterone but not a massive one. In fact there are many things that cause elevated testosterone levels.

For example, a study discovered that men whose football team won a match had more elevated testosterone levels after the game than the supporters of the losing team. This study shows that the mind is a key controller of hormonal balance and this is one of the key parts of my hair loss eBook.

It shows that it is possible to control your hormonal balance if you are able to take greater control of your mind and your feelings.

In conclusion

It’s my opinion that you don’t need to worry about the effects of body building on your hair, unless you are taking supplements that are designed to increase your testosterone levels. I don’t even need to say that you shouldn’t be taking steroids if you want to be healthy.

If you’re taking steroids and you are one of the millions of people whose scalp is sensitive to DHT you will probably notice an increase in hair loss. Just don’t take them.

However if you’re not taking steroids and you’re working out pretty hard you should be OK, providing you’re following the instructions in my eBook – and so keeping your mind in the right place, keeping your body working at super efficient levels and keeping your scalp clear and free of DHT.

I work out as often as possible – about three times a week and I hit the weights quite hard. I’ve got a pretty muscular body – in fact I’m in great shape – low fat levels, good muscle tone. But I’m highly aware that with exercising and weight lifting you can do things the same way as everyone else or you can use your intelligence to get ahead of the game. And I’m fortunate enough to know about nutrition and how to gain the most benefits from food.

I hope this helps. Thanks for your question.

Chris

These levels of anxiety are normal and are essential for making progress in life. Without a small amount of anxiety we wouldn’t do anything in life because we would have no worries. However, if you feel elevated anxiety levels in seemingly irrational situations you may have an anxiety disorder or be bordering on one.

Anxiety disorders are quite common but due to the nature of the disorders, sufferers are often too nervous to tell anyone what they are going through.

Anxiety and hair loss

Anxiety doesn’t just make you feel terrible in your mind, it also has a physical effect on your body. There are obvious and immediate physical symptoms such as increased heart rate and nausea but some sufferers may also experience longer term symptoms that occur as a direct result of the anxiety.

Anxiety attacks trigger the ‘fight or flight’ response. This causes surges of adrenaline in the body and gets the heart rate up. Not only does anxiety cause surges of adrenaline, it can also cause prolonged elevated levels of adrenaline and cause hormonal imbalance.

Increased adrenaline production drains the body of essential vitamins needed for the hair and skin. This is one of the reasons why when someone is stressed out, anxious or hasn’t had much sleep, their skin can look greasy and their hair can look lack-luster.

Anxiety and stress also cause increased muscle tension, particularly in the shoulders. This can decrease blood flow to the scalp. Good blood flow to the scalp is essential for hair growth because the building blocks of hair are transported to the scalp via the blood stream.

What can be done to stop this?

You can try all the different hair loss treatments available but until you cure your anxiety, your hair and skin will continue to suffer. If you suffer from higher than normal levels of anxiety it might be that this is the root cause of your hair loss.

If you don’t stop the anxiety you won’t stop the hair loss.

If you want to reduce your anxiety to sensible levels you need to use all the weapons at your disposal to defeat it. To learn how I stopped my anxiety and as a result stopped my hair loss, download my eBook today. With it you’ll also receive my programme of audio files that help you think more positively, thus reducing your anxiety levels, until eventually, anxiety becomes a distant memory.

But I never gave up.

For every failure I learnt something. And I went back to the drawing board. I eventually devised my six step programme, which tackles every cause of hair loss.

Some people are lucky. They can buy one hair loss treatment, such as minoxidol, and they can find that one treatment does the trick, completely stopping their hair loss. However in my experience these are rare cases.

Most people need a more comprehensive approach to stopping hair loss

Most hair loss treatments tackle just ONE of the causes of hair loss. Some inhibit DHT, some improve circulation to the scalp and some change your hormonal balance. The problem I found through-out my years of research into stopping hair loss, is that usually the hair loss is caused by a combination of problems, often rooted in one underlying problem. This underlying problem is often something that is completely missed by the hair loss industry. For example, stress – have you ever seen a hair loss treatment that attempts to deal with the stress factor?

But that’s not the only problem. If you don’t know what is causing your hair loss, how do you know how to treat it? The answer is that you need to recognise and understand the symptoms of each of the different causes of hair loss.

In my eBook Stop Hair Loss in Six Steps, Guaranteed, I describe exactly what the symptoms are and how to know which cause of hair loss is most significant for you and therefore which of the treatments in my eBook, are most important for YOU. All of these treatments can be carried out in your home, and they do not cost a bomb. I cover all of the causes of hair loss in my eBook and how to properly ELIMINATE them one by one.

So download a copy today. If you don’t think my programme is as good as I say it is, you’re welcome to a full money back guarantee. Oh and by the way, NONE of my customers have ever asked for a refund!

Until next time, enjoy your day, and don’t let that hair loss get on top of you. It only takes six simple steps to stop it COMPLETELY.