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I was taking krill oil supplements (rich in EPA and DHA, but with naturally occurring antioxidants) and flax oil (rich in ALA, has some linoleic acid) for years before I started noticing hair loss.
I was taking flax oil on and off, irregularly for 2 years, then stopped that and took krill oil regularly for 1.5 years.
I'm a 22 year old male, father not bald, mother's father not bald, half of my mother's brothers went bald in their late 30s/40s, other half kept their hair. I'm certain this is related to my environment.
Could taking these supplements cause hair loss? If so, how?
I can imagine how Omega6s would be involved in hair loss (arachidonic acid is a necessary precursor for ProstaglandinD2, which causes hair loss when applied externally, and is elevated in bald scalps), but how would omega3s cause this?
Perhaps I'm looking at it the wrong way, and PGD2 shouldn't normally end up in the scalp in a healthy individual in the first place?
The following paragraphs have NSFW text:
I also masturbated A LOT (often 3+ times a day) over the last few years. This increases prolactin, which I've read is associated with hair loss.
The other thing is, over the last few years, my sexuality has become very "feminine". By that, I mean that I've had fantasies about women acting on me, rather than the other way around: touching me, spanking me, me being in vulnerable positions, etc. TMI, I know, but I feel it's relevant, since I never had such fantasies as a teenager.
When I'm actually able to have sexual fantasies about me dominating the woman, I need hypersexual stimulation. I tend to look at pictures/videos of women with very sexual figures, tiny waists, huge hips, big round butts, thick lips, extreme bondage, etc. Again, this wasn't always the case, I used to masturbate to pictures of relatively cute, skinny girls in bikinis and halter tops back when I was 17; I never even cared for a woman's butt/hips.
Anyway, could this change be due to increased estrogen? Perhaps it's not increased estrogen, but low SHBG, which would inactivate some estrogen? I've skimmed a lot of websites saying that sex drive and estrogen are correlated in males; I think Peat himself may have mentioned somewhere that high estrogen can cause insatiable sexual interest in men. It would explain my high, but submissive, sex drive.
I'm getting a little politically incorrect here, but as far as stereotypes and general impressions go, it could also explain gay men having high sex drives, while being rather submissive (I'm not certain just how true the former is, but I've read accounts from many gay men that dominant "tops" are far more rare than submissive "bottoms").
I've also read that black men have more estrogen than white men, and Asian men have higher testosterone (but lower 5 alpha reductase, thus less prostate cancer, hair loss, and facial hair) than white men. If estrogen levels were lower in Asian men, wouldn't that explain the stereotype of Asian men having less interest in sex, and the preferences of black men for women with very sexual features (big butts, hips, lips, etc)? I realize I may sound very racist and crude here, and I really don't mean to offend anyone, but from my personal observations, and I've known many people of many different races, these generalizations seem somewhat true.
A few things I've been doing lately seem to be helping. Aside from the central guidelines of avoiding all PUFA, and getting sugar/fruit, I've also started drinking coffee, eating shellfish (mussels/oysters), and eating grass-fed liver.
What I've noticed: after eating a lot of mussels, or a few oysters, I feel like masturbating, but without the submissive hangups.
After consuming oysters, liver (no coffee), and doing a resistance workout one day, I awoke the next morning to find at least 5 new hairs growing on a previously bald spot of my temple. Additionally, I saw literally no hair shedding in the shower, for the next few days.
The coffee has been keeping me energized. I also saw the following study; it found that coffee decreased estrogen in white women, but increased it in Asian and black women.
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jan2012/nichd-26.htm
I'm not a woman, and I'm neither white, black, or Asian, but I've been having almost none of my "submissive" fantasies lately, and I've mostly gone back to looking at pictures of normally proportioned girls, with normally sized butts, normal looking faces, devoid of excessively degrading acts and dungeon-esque props. (I'm Indian for the record, which genetically/morphologically seems a lot closer to white/mideastern/"Caucasian" than anything else, but I don't know how much that counts for when talking about coffee and estrogen)
I realize this post became unreasonably long, so I apologize. Here's a tl;dr summary of the relevant questions contained in this post.
1. Can omega3s worsen hair loss, and how?
2. What is the significance of ingesting omega3 with an antioxidant, like krill oil, as opposed to one without, like fish oil?
3. How would ingesting parent omega3 (alpha linolenic acid) have a different effect on the body from ingesting omega3 derivatives (EPA and DHA)?
4. Can high estrogen cause an increase in sex drive, in males?
5. Can high estrogen cause increased thoughts of sexual submissiveness or homosexuality, in males?
6. Can high estrogen cause hair loss?
7. Can eating liver help hair loss in any significant way, and how? [/list]
Feel free to answer, but also to discuss, add your own experience, whatever. Thanks a lot.
I was taking flax oil on and off, irregularly for 2 years, then stopped that and took krill oil regularly for 1.5 years.
I'm a 22 year old male, father not bald, mother's father not bald, half of my mother's brothers went bald in their late 30s/40s, other half kept their hair. I'm certain this is related to my environment.
Could taking these supplements cause hair loss? If so, how?
I can imagine how Omega6s would be involved in hair loss (arachidonic acid is a necessary precursor for ProstaglandinD2, which causes hair loss when applied externally, and is elevated in bald scalps), but how would omega3s cause this?
Perhaps I'm looking at it the wrong way, and PGD2 shouldn't normally end up in the scalp in a healthy individual in the first place?
The following paragraphs have NSFW text:
I also masturbated A LOT (often 3+ times a day) over the last few years. This increases prolactin, which I've read is associated with hair loss.
The other thing is, over the last few years, my sexuality has become very "feminine". By that, I mean that I've had fantasies about women acting on me, rather than the other way around: touching me, spanking me, me being in vulnerable positions, etc. TMI, I know, but I feel it's relevant, since I never had such fantasies as a teenager.
When I'm actually able to have sexual fantasies about me dominating the woman, I need hypersexual stimulation. I tend to look at pictures/videos of women with very sexual figures, tiny waists, huge hips, big round butts, thick lips, extreme bondage, etc. Again, this wasn't always the case, I used to masturbate to pictures of relatively cute, skinny girls in bikinis and halter tops back when I was 17; I never even cared for a woman's butt/hips.
Anyway, could this change be due to increased estrogen? Perhaps it's not increased estrogen, but low SHBG, which would inactivate some estrogen? I've skimmed a lot of websites saying that sex drive and estrogen are correlated in males; I think Peat himself may have mentioned somewhere that high estrogen can cause insatiable sexual interest in men. It would explain my high, but submissive, sex drive.
I'm getting a little politically incorrect here, but as far as stereotypes and general impressions go, it could also explain gay men having high sex drives, while being rather submissive (I'm not certain just how true the former is, but I've read accounts from many gay men that dominant "tops" are far more rare than submissive "bottoms").
I've also read that black men have more estrogen than white men, and Asian men have higher testosterone (but lower 5 alpha reductase, thus less prostate cancer, hair loss, and facial hair) than white men. If estrogen levels were lower in Asian men, wouldn't that explain the stereotype of Asian men having less interest in sex, and the preferences of black men for women with very sexual features (big butts, hips, lips, etc)? I realize I may sound very racist and crude here, and I really don't mean to offend anyone, but from my personal observations, and I've known many people of many different races, these generalizations seem somewhat true.
A few things I've been doing lately seem to be helping. Aside from the central guidelines of avoiding all PUFA, and getting sugar/fruit, I've also started drinking coffee, eating shellfish (mussels/oysters), and eating grass-fed liver.
What I've noticed: after eating a lot of mussels, or a few oysters, I feel like masturbating, but without the submissive hangups.
After consuming oysters, liver (no coffee), and doing a resistance workout one day, I awoke the next morning to find at least 5 new hairs growing on a previously bald spot of my temple. Additionally, I saw literally no hair shedding in the shower, for the next few days.
The coffee has been keeping me energized. I also saw the following study; it found that coffee decreased estrogen in white women, but increased it in Asian and black women.
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jan2012/nichd-26.htm
I'm not a woman, and I'm neither white, black, or Asian, but I've been having almost none of my "submissive" fantasies lately, and I've mostly gone back to looking at pictures of normally proportioned girls, with normally sized butts, normal looking faces, devoid of excessively degrading acts and dungeon-esque props. (I'm Indian for the record, which genetically/morphologically seems a lot closer to white/mideastern/"Caucasian" than anything else, but I don't know how much that counts for when talking about coffee and estrogen)
I realize this post became unreasonably long, so I apologize. Here's a tl;dr summary of the relevant questions contained in this post.
1. Can omega3s worsen hair loss, and how?
2. What is the significance of ingesting omega3 with an antioxidant, like krill oil, as opposed to one without, like fish oil?
3. How would ingesting parent omega3 (alpha linolenic acid) have a different effect on the body from ingesting omega3 derivatives (EPA and DHA)?
4. Can high estrogen cause an increase in sex drive, in males?
5. Can high estrogen cause increased thoughts of sexual submissiveness or homosexuality, in males?
6. Can high estrogen cause hair loss?
7. Can eating liver help hair loss in any significant way, and how? [/list]
Feel free to answer, but also to discuss, add your own experience, whatever. Thanks a lot.