There does seem top be a connection between acne and hair loss. The liver is an important piece of both puzzles but what most acne programs and hair loss programs seem to ignore is stress. Stress has a greater impact on liver health, sebum levels, hormonal balance and hair loss than diet or hygiene. What types of people tend to suffer from acne? It tends to be more intelligent people who have good skin hygiene and above average diets but also have minds that think about stresses more, or they have more pressure to succeed in work life.

The more intelligent you are the more able your mind is to postulate on a greater number of possible outcomes to any given scenario in life — whether it be something you did at work today or something you do everyday in life.

The people who were stressing out about work or their social life at school, college or university tend to also be the people who are stressing out at work later in life. But it’s not the stress that causes the acne or hair loss, it’s the way those types of people deal with the stress badly.

Take for example now homeless people. Homeless people have terrible diets and very poor hygiene compared to the average person. Yet they tend to have thick hair. It’s not because they don’t have what we would consider stress in their lives, it’s that they do now react to stressful situations in the same way as more intelligent people do.

Stress is what makes us get up in the morning and go to work. It’s what motivates us to work harder to improve our lives. We worry that we could or should be achieving more. Homeless people however don’t tend to worry like this. Those of them who do are likely not to be homeless for very long.

Less intelligent people worry less about things and as a result tend not to to be effected by the stress and so have better balanced hormones, their livers have fewer inputs to process and their body has a greater supply of nutrients for the hair and skin because stress is not using up the supply.

Stress and worry have an impact on hormonal balance and sebum production. If you react badly to stressors (such as work deadlines, pressure to succeed in life, or even simply jealousy), it has an impact on your hormonal balance and liver. The result is often an increase in sebum on the skin and a decrease in nutrient supply in the body (especially B vitamins and other key nutrients required for the hair and skin).

These problems are easy to deal with temporarily — by massively increasing consumption of the key nutrients, such as essential fatty acids, B vitamins, magnesium, etc and by cleansing the liver. However if you want to solve these problems in the long term you have to treat the root cause — which in some cases is problems in the mind.

How greater intelligence can take you down the wrong road

Because more intelligent people are more able to consider a greater array of outcomes to any given scenario, some people tend to focus more on the potentially negative outcomes than the potentially positive outcomes. The result is that some peoples’ minds get geared towards thinking about possible negative outcomes — in other words they train their minds over many years to worry about things more so than others.

For example: some guy has a presentation at school and he doesn’t like the idea of people analyzing his every move (which is what he does when watching other peoples’ presentations). So he sows the seed of fear into presenting in front of people. Now he might avoid presentations at school. As a result he could develop a fear of talking in front of people. He will have thought about it greatly and formed hypotheses and (perhaps unfounded) conclusions on what people think of him and how he deals with this form of stress.

These hypotheses and conclusions train his mind over many years and in a myriad if interconnected scenarios to worry and react badly to stressors.

The key is to re-train the mind to stay relaxed and focused in stressful situations

We can use the process of developing conclusions about things we experience in life to ‘reprogram’ the mind, so that it reacts positively to stressors instead of negatively. This really is the major missing ingredient in all the hair loss programs and acne programs I’ve researched. It’s extremely important and sad that not enough attention is paid to it.

The truth is that if you are very relaxed yet focused, your muscles are loose and relaxed and your breathing is relaxed and calm you are likely to be very healthy both internally and in appearance.

This is why I’ve dedicated a chapter in my eBook to stress. I’ve included detailed instructions on how to train your mind to stay relaxed and focused and not over worry.

With the eBook you receive a free 8 part subliminal mind training audio program, that can be listened to while you sleep, exercise or relax. The program works by removing negative habits from the mind and gradually replacing them with positive ones. In the same way as we train our minds over many years to form negative conclusions about experiences, my mind training program reprograms the brain to eventually draw positive conclusions about experiences.

There are also instructions on how to cleanse the liver and replenish the body of nutrients required for hair growth and how to normalise sebum levels, increase circulation in the scalp and reduce DHT levels. These are all crucial to stopping hair loss and regrowing hair.

Moving house, changing job, major diet changes and other major sudden changes in life often cause a sudden increase in hair loss. However it’s not likely to be because of a change in your water, it’s far more likely to be stress related.

Moving house can be quite stressful and a major sudden change in your everyday life can increase your stress levels.

Stress is such a significant cause of hair loss. It’s up there with DHT in the top causes of hair loss but it’s often underrated in it’s importance by people. I really can’t overstate how much of a difference it can make to your health and appearance to have low stress levels.

If you’re a calm, relaxed person who doesn’t worry too much about things, doesn’t get stressed out, too angry or anxious:

• you will breathe deeply and slowly;
• your muscles will be loose and relaxed;
• your hormones are likely to be in good balance;
• you will not be draining your body of nutrient resources;
• your liver and bowels will be in better health;
• your skin and hair will be far healthier looking;
• you’ll get better sleep;
• and you’ll have more energy during the day.

Stress has a huge impact on your health. It causes hormonal surges, it drains the body of nutrients needed for hair growth, it causes muscle tension that can inhibit blood flow to the scalp and it can have a damaging effect on your immune system (to name just a few things).

Conquer stress and conquer hair loss

If you feel like you suffer from above average stress levels on a regular basis, you worry a lot or often feel nervous or anxious, you need to change the way you deal with stress, if you want to stop your hair loss.

I have dedicated a chapter of my eBook to training your mind so that you react in a calm, relaxed way rather than worrying or stressing out about things. I instruct you how to use my free audio mind training programme to ‘reprogramme’ your thoughts, so stressful situations actually energize you and make you feel calm and focused.

If you suffer from high stress levels, or deal with stress badly I highly recommend you follow the instructions in my eBook and use the audio mind training programme to change the way you deal with stress, worry and anxiety.

Thanks for your questions.

I totally empathise with as you as I was in a very similar situation to you about 3 or 4 years back. I cannot stress what I am about to say enough:

Sort out your anxiety and stress now.

It’s the absolute most important thing you can do for your health. I recommend you read my story to see the hell I went through before I wrote the eBook. I managed to completely end my irrational anxiety and stress. In doing so I developed a methodology to help others do the same. I’ve written all of this down in my eBook and provided an audio programme (which you can download for free when you download the eBook) that helps you train your mind to deal with stressful situations, worry and anxiety in a calm and relaxed manor.

This is probably the most important step you can take to ending stress related hair loss.

As for the medication you’re taking for hair loss, I would continue with this and gradually phase it out as you conquer your anxiety. If you can completely conquer your anxiety that would be the time to stop taking the medication altogether.

You should also take several other steps to help your hair at the same time.

Get your scalp into optimum health to promote hair growth

It sounds like your scalp is in poor condition. You need to get your scalp into optimum health to promote hair growth. You will need to properly treat your scalp to get rid of the dandruff. You would need to describe your scalp to me in further detail in order for me to help you further as I don’t know how sensitive your scalp is or what is causing the flakiness as yet. Please email me further details on this.

Stop taking hair loss medication and balance your hormones naturally

Your doctor has recommended that you take progesterone to counteract the high estrogen levels. This seems like poor advice because you are already taking Avodart. If you want to reduce your estrogen levels and increase your testosterone levels you will need to stop taking Avodart. Don’t take both Avodart and Progesterone — this will totally mess up your hormonal balance. I would recommend phasing out the Avodart over time, as you progress with improving the condition of your scalp and reducing your stress levels. I would also recommend using some whole food supplements I recommend in the nutrition section of the eBook to help further balance your hormones. Reducing your stress levels and improving your diet in other ways also will help further balance your hormones.

Eat foods that promote hair growth

It sounds like you’re doing a lot of exercise. Are you eating enough protein and good fats to compensate for this? You particularly need lean proteins, essential fatty acids and B vitamins — but ideally get these from natural food sources such as oily fish, flax seed oil, eggs, chicken, green leafy vegetables etc. Taking a cocktail of supplements might do you more harm than good. I explain the best foods for hair growth in the eBook.

Get your liver into optimum health

You also mention that you believe your liver may have suffered due to stress. This is possible, although it is hard for me to tell without seeing you. Bad skin, dull eyes and greasy skin are all signs of weakened liver. It certainly won’t do you any harm to consume some foods and herbs that help support the liver, or even to complete a liver cleanse. I have dedicated a portion of the eBook to optimising liver health – this might be of help to you.

Please feel free to email, me to let me know how you’re getting on and I will try to help further.

Best Regards,

Chris