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Is there a way to isolate the nutrient deficiency Did you use a blood test?You'll want to look for a shortfall in vitamins/minerals/proteins/other hormonal levels/etc....
anytime you increase metabolism and outstrip your internal resources you see some form of negative result.
ie. you hear people talk about eating sugar or using thyroid and their teeth becoming problematic. This isn't a sugar or thyroid or even metabolism problem
its a lack of particular nutrition and for everyone its often different.
I know for me personally it took a lot of detective work and lots of self awareness and documentation.
Hypothyroidism and malnutrition are two common issues. Efforts to heal metabolism can help bring it down if it’s elevated due to one of those reasons.Thank you, @Blossom ! OK, so another question -- what would elevate prolactin? And how would I lower it?
It depends on the status of your thyroid, exactly, because the thyroid hormone and Vitamin A are carried on the same protein in the blood and if you take too much Vitamin A, it can act as an antagonist to thyroid. It acts like a polyunsaturated fat, in competing against the thyroid hormone and can also block the production of adrenal and ovarian steroids if you get too much
Is that Vit D level around 50 ng/nl?Just in case it wasn’t already mentioned adequate vitamin D is important from a Peat perspective as a possible issue in hair loss/thinning.
Yes according to Peat that’s a good level.Is that Vit D level around 50 ng/nl?
I used to take <200mg because higher doses caused acne in my case.Just in case it wasn’t already mentioned adequate vitamin D is important from a Peat perspective as a possible issue in hair loss/thinning.
Let’s see if @Rosie will chime in for this one. I haven’t taken it for years so I don’t recall.
I think my hair loss on the 'Peat diet' is the result of increased metabolism and being hypothyroid. Initially I thought that the foods were the culprit but after 2 years of thinning hair, I have thousands of new hair strands growing all over my head now. Since taking thyroid, my hair growth is accelerated.I've noticed that any time I rev up my metabolism, I get major hair loss. Any idea why this happens? Last year, after many years of low carbing, I switched to a high carb diet (most carbs through fruit). I feel tons better, and I'm delighted that I can eat way more calories without gaining weight, plus I sleep better, can put on more muscle, etc. But the hair loss is killing me. I'm a single woman, and my hair was my identity and pride. I thought maybe it was candida from the carbs, but I've noticed that anything else that revs me up (such as iodine, T3 supplementation, or C60, or acupuncture on my thyroid) also makes my hair fall out. Help!
Do you have animal foods like eggs, milk or liver occasionally in your diet? I would just be cautious about vitamin A supplements if you are already eating a wide variety of foods rich in A.@Blossom , what's too much Vitamin A? I get loads of it from fruits and veggies, but since that's not the same as retinol, I take 25,000 iu per day of retinol. I tried stopping the retinol for a couple months, but it didn't make a difference, so I just restarted it yesterday.
Thanks, my Vit D has been in the 50s the last few years. I always wonder what is a good level. I take supplements.@dbh25 , my Vitamin D level is 75.
I'm following Peat since the end of 2013. I was taking Tyromax in 2015 for a few months. My hair started to thin in August 2016 and I had chronic hair shedding from April 2018 until about the end of September. I'm 100% sure that my hair loss is the result of my physically exhausting job which I started in June 2016. It seems that the Peat diet alone wasn't enough in my case to 'fight' the stress, caused by my job. I started to take Cynoplus in October 2018. Ray Peat advised me to take a quarter of a tablet daily for 2 weeks then see if I had to add additional T3. After 2 weeks on Cynoplus, I started to take T3 (Triyotex) 6mcg 3 times daily -as advised by Peat and @Blossom and continued with a quarter of Cynoplus before bed. I also started to take Progesterone a couple of months ago. I think the Progesterone and Thyroid supplements reduced my shedding by 95%.Thanx, @Rosie -- that's encouraging to hear. Did your hair start coming back even before taking thyroid? And what sort of thyroid are you taking? And isn't the Peat diet supposed to help the thyroid?