Embarking on a brave journey after 5 years of hair loss.

by Adam
(Finland)

Hi Sheree

As of 16.10.2019 i will begin my hair loss diet journey. I am 24 years old with NW 3 on the balding scale. i started noticing hairloss at age 20. My dietary background is riddled with pro inflammatory foods, like white rice, pasta, potato chips, bread, little to no vegetable intake and also bouts of emotional eating of junk food pizza, burgers etc and undereating.

Below is my attempt at constructing a balanced diet.

Breakfast: 3-4 scrambled eggs cooked with teaspoon of olive oil, eatin with a side of spinach and water.

Lunch: portion of brown rice, chick breast and kale & water.

Dinner: Salmon, carrots, red onions, cucumbers & water


Bedtime (optional at times): lamb/beef cubes or steak, with broccoli & bell peppers, & water.

I have stacked up on all the ingredients, and bought spices to make the food tasty.

I know in the diet proposed on this site you say people should stay away from read meat and limit brown rice intake, but I am planning on weight lifting & figured I need the extra carb energy to burn through for my workout and I need protein/fat for muscle growth, so I was wondering is this going to be a problem? or interfere with my hair regrowth based on your experience?

13 Years of Hair Loss

by Sana
(Toronto, ON, Canada )

Hello Sheree,

I have been visiting this website for quite some time now. I am impressed how food science can act like medicine.

I have been dealing with hair loss since 13 years Now. I am 33 year old female and two kids. Last year my doctor told me that I have been anemic for almost 9 years and was low in calcium and vitamin D. I also had high testosterone and high DHEAs.

So I met an endocrinologist, and he did a blood count regularly for about 3 times in six months. He checked my androgens in November 2018. They slightly went down.

My hair was shedding like crazy last year. I have been taking my supplements so I believe because of those, my hair shedding has reduced.

Actually, I became vegetarian about 8 years ago. Didn’t know what kind of foods I could incorporate in my diet so probably I was mostly focused on carbohydrates and sugary foods.

I can fully see my scalp now :(

There are days when I just don’t want to go out of the house.

Please help !!!

Gluten-Free Beer?

Hi Sheree,

I am wondering about different types of alcohol. I went on this diet a few years ago and I think I was doing well on it but I stopped it for the past few years. I can see it in my hair....So I need to get back on the diet. It's just that sometimes it's difficult or not practical.

One issue is socializing - it often includes alcohol. Socializing is important for mental health and so I'm wondering what alcohols are ok on this diet. I read in your book that red wine is ok. And on a forum post you said that white wine is also ok. What about whiskey or liquors? They seem to be gluten free. Also, what about any gluten free beers?

Thanks for your help!

Mark

Help for Love

by Naima
(Algeria)

Hi Sheree. I'm a 22-year-old female. I've been suffering from hair loss for quite a while, but last year was the worst. I've always had thin hair since my birth, with few wide part, but lately it's the worst it has ever been, especially my hairline.

I can't even put my hair up. It's like I don't have any hair on the front. My vertex is as bad as it can be. I'm always wearing a turban or a hat.

I can't even look at myself in the mirror. I even removed my mirror from my room so I won't see myself. I don't know what to do, sometimes I just wanna give up, but I can't do that. I'm still hoping that I'll regrow my hair. Your forum seems very interesting. You're like a light in the dark.

Please Sheree help me. It's so hard to go through this at a young age, especially for a female...I'm begging you Sheree

Curious About Cheese

by Jyle
(Australia)

Hello, I'm just curious, are we allowed to eat cheese on the hair loss diet? I've been eating a lot of healthy salads with spinach and other vegetables and I add cheese and also cheese on my omelettes. I really hope so because I love cheese. lol

Struggling but won't give up!

I lost my hair when I was around 16 years old, and it is still thinning at age 23. Genetics plays a role for sure as female pattern baldness runs in my family. However, I grew up on processed foods and never knew this is what caused my hair loss. Once I started noticing I was gaining weight, I thought my hair loss was directly correlated. I wanted to be as "healthy" as possible so I switched all of my foods to "non-fat" or "low-fat" and unfortunately that made matters worse.

I met with a dermatologist who told me it was genetic and put me on Rogaine and spirolactone. A few years later, I saved up to have a prp treatment done and bought a laser cap. I also started have ozone injections into my scalp until I had a horrible reaction to those. NOTHING helped.

The one thing that did help when I did it habitually was the laser cap. I am pretty good at hiding the thinning, but every single day I get up I have to hide this from the world. Sometimes I have horrible breakdowns about it because I feel like I will never have pretty hair, or how I want it to look.

However, I have a lot of hope after doing research and reading everything the hair loss diet has to offer. I am sick of being depressed and having low self-esteem because of my hair! I can't wait to say in a year or so my hair grew back, so here's hoping.

Here We Go

by Hector
(Washington DC)

My thick wonderful hair is beginning to thin... Could you imagine that. I started losing the bulk of it when I went on a vegan diet but I was noticing that I was starting to lose a little bit of the hairline, nothing to be alarmed about. But after I went on a vegan diet my hair loss accelerated at light speed.

So based on everything I read on this website and the books and the videos I watched. This is the diet I'm adopting.

Breakfast

Normally two to three eggs, black or pinto beans with quinoa and a mixture of red bell peppers and white onions. Sometimes I use broccoli. Also on some days I'll have one egg boiled and a can of sardines, with the same vegetables I listed above. I also include either some avocado or queso fresco

Lunch

Chicken thigh baked with skin and bone. About two cups of spinach mixed with a little bit of onions are the red white or yellow and some red or orange bell peppers. I also eat it with non GMO blue corn or yellow corn tortillas... I'm Mexican what can I say lol.. the non-GMO variety can only be found at Whole Foods as far as I have been able to detect I used to Ula brand. Day in day out I substitute the tortillas with red quinoa or chickpeas and I usually eat it with the mixture of some avocado or queso fresco.

For a snack I eat about a half a cup of whole milk yogurt plain with either a banana, blueberries, or two medjool dates.

Dinner

A bowl of either red black or green lentils mixed with beef gelatin. I use a brand called Great Lakes and use about 2 tablespoons. I eat this with a quarter of an onion red white or yellow, a whole avocado in about a quarter cup of cilantro.

On Tuesdays I have class so I don't have time to cook so I just eat a really large bowl of whole milk plain yogurt with 6 medjool dates and half a cup of blueberries.

I found that if I don't eat enough I still lose hair. That was based on eating like this, or better said something like this starting about two to three months ago. At that time I wasn't eating any quinoa or very little no beans for breakfast or lunch and definitely no tortillas. And I think I was under eating because I lost a a lot of weight, like I used to be 152 lb and I dropped to 128. So I don't think I could grow hair if I'm losing that much weight that fast. That's mainly why I added the carbohydrate foods especially the beans the tortillas and quinoa because I realize I just was not eating enough.

Thinning Hair at Young Age

Hey guys, I'm only 19 years old and I've been experiencing dramatic hair loss. I've had thick curly hair most of my life, but over the years I've noticed a pattern of thinning.

At first, I always believed I had enough hair so it would be okay if some of it was lost, but recently its been more than normal and I have barely 1/5 of what I originally had. I've tried eating healthier and exercising.

I'm not deficient in any vitamins except borderline vitamin D. I don't know what to do. The thought of losing hair haunts me every single day. I can't go go one hour without thinking about it. Most of my friends are kinda giving up on me and think I'm exaggerating. Please help me out. I don't want to be bald before I'm 30.