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Saturday, December 10, 2016

How To Reduce DHT Levels Naturally from Hairlossrevolution.com

How To Reduce DHT Levels Naturally

It’s well known that dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is the hormone that is mostly responsible for male pattern baldness. Yes, there are lots of other important factors that contribute to hair loss, (I created a whole website about them 🙂
But this guide will focus on the most effective, powerful and fastest ways to reduce DHT levels naturally in your body so that your hair finally has a chance of survival.
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Luckily, there is quite a lot you can do to lower your DHT levels, but it’s probably not what you expect. Most mainstream advice on the topic doesn’t really work very well – if I’m being honest – so what does work?
I’ve already written a huge guide about how to reduce DHT levels in your scalp so I recommend reading that, but I will summarise the points here as well. Since the scalp is where hair loss takes places, it makes sense to localise your DHT-fighting efforts around this area. Your results can be extremely quick because of this.
In this guide, however, I will focus on reducing levels on a systematic level inside your body. After all, this will affect the DHT levels in your scalp in turn.
I think it’s a good idea to take a ‘double-pronged’ approach to lower DHT levels both inside the body, and directly on the scalp – So go and read that article now.
Look, I now some of you just want to get started now so here’s a list of my favourite (and the most powerful) foods to reduce your blood DHT levels natural asap:

  • Pumpkin seeds
  • Saw palmetto

Why would you want to reduce your DHT levels anyway?

DHT is made from testosterone, and is converted by the enzyme known as 5-alpha-reductase. Of course, we don’t want to lower our testosterone levels (that would make us less manly) so a more effective approach is to inhibit (slow down) the action of the enzyme.
I wrote an article about the best 5-alpha reductase inhibitors here. In this guide though we’ll take a more holistic approach.
An important point to understand is that men who suffer from male pattern baldness don’t have particularly high levels of DHT. That’s not the problem.
The problem is that our hair follicles are more sensitive to DHT and the hair follicle miniaturisation that DHT causes.
So although lowering your DHT levels will help, there are more effective ways to stop hair loss, by reducing the sensitivity of the hair follicle to the DHT.
THAT is what this article will focus on.

DHT Sensitivity

Alkalised blood

After our body metabolises the foods we eat there is a left over substance which is known as ‘metabolic ash’ or ‘metabolic waste.’
Much like after you have a bonfire there is a ash left over. This metabolic ash is either acidic or alkaline in nature depending on what sort of food was metabolised.
Our body has evolved eating certain foods that leave an overall stable and healthy pH (the measurement of acid and alkaline balance.) But, due to our modern diets, the foods we eat are often heavily weighted on the acidic side of the spectrum.
(This doesn’t have anything to do with if the food is acidic or alkaline before it get metabolised. For example, lemons are acidic, but when we metabolise them they leave a highly alkalising ash.)
Many of the foods found in our modern diet are highly acid forming (acid forming means that after they metabolise then acidic ash is left over.) Foods like grains, meat, dairy and refined sugars. Over time, our body turns more acidic.
A recent study (which you can learn about more in my hair loss course) showed that in the scalp, alkaline conditions inhibited the effect of the enzyme (5-alpha reductase) converting testosterone into DHT, reducing the likelihood of hair loss taking place.
This means that we should always be looking to alkalise our body (7.4pH is healthy) to minimise DHT in the scalp.
The foods that are most alkalising are mainly vegetables (sorry if you thought I was going to say Haagen Dazs) most fresh fruits, herbs, spices, grasses, and raw soaked nuts and seeds.
Shift your diet from acid forming foods to alkalising foods and your will naturally lower the DHT levels in your scalp.

Reduced allergies and autoimmune response

Allergies and autoimmue responses lead to increased hair follicle sensitivity to DHT. So although lowering your DHT levels will help, why not attack the problem from both sides and make your hair follicles less sensitive?
We all know about food allergies (like shellfish, peanuts etc) but fewer people know about what’s called delayed allergic reactions. One of the big ones is delayed allergic reactions to gluten (the protein found in many grains) that many people suffer from (but don’t know they do.)
A famous example of this is the number 1 tennis player in the world; Novak Djocovick. During his early career Djocovick suffered from gluten intolerance but didn’t know it, and his tennis suffered.
He regularly collapsed on court and was the butt of many jokes from his competitors such as Roger Federer.
However, Djocovick finally realised his sensitivity to gluten and removed it from his diet. Now he has been the number one tennis player the world for over 5 years. You can read more about his journey in his excellent book. Serve to Win.
Anyway, back to hair loss…
Everybody responds to these delayed allergic reactions differently. For Novak it caused fatigue, muscles aches, stiffness and slowness, but for other the allergies can increase their sensitivity to DHT.
The thing is though, it’s not obvious. The reaction is delayed so its hard to connect the food type with the reaction. Without knowing what to look for it’s hard to tell what you might be sensitive to.
Novak suffered for years as a professional tennis player despite being surrounded by world-class doctors and nutritionists before connecting the dots.
Gluten isn’t the only substance that can cause delayed allergic reactions. Everybody is different and has different sensitivities.
You will only know when you remove the foods entirely from your diet over a period of time (usually a couple of weeks) and then introduce them to see the effect.
This technique of removal and reintroduction makes the allergic reaction more obvious and clear to feel in your body. You can then take note to eliminate those foods from your diet (or at least minimise them) to reduce the effect they have on your hair.

Stable blood sugar levels

Blood sugar level spikes are another dietary mistake that can cause sensitivity to DHT leading to hair loss.

DHT Levels in Blood

Detox and efficient toxin removal

Toxins build up in the blood over time when they can’t escape so it’s good practice when trying to re-grow your hair to detoxify as much as possible. This mostly means keeping your liver and colon in the best shape possible since they are responsible for removing waste products and toxins from your body.
I highly recommend trying a bentonite clay detox which will help stabilise your DHT levels and remove and excess. In my hair loss course I have an entire ebook dedicated to DHT detox, (as a bonus) so you may want to check that out today.

Hormonal balance

Out of balance hormones can cause an increase in DHT, unfortunately there is no clear evidence about what exactly causes unnatural levels of DHT. One thing is clear though; animal proteins that have been given growth hormones should be avoided.
Yes, I don’t know for sure but personally I’d rather stay away from meat and poultry that has been given growth hormones since, on some level, those hormones will enter into your body and affect your own hormonal balance, possibly even your DHT levels.
I know it’s expensive, but try to choose organic meats and poultry, of stick to fish, or plant based vegetables instead.

DHT Levels In Scalp

As I mentioned in the introduction, I’ve already written a huge guide to reducing the DHT levels in your scalp so go and read that guide for all the information. What follows is the short guide.
The first step is to use salicylic acid the peel away the epidermis plaque which consists of dead skin cells, dirt, oil, dust and DHT. This would stop the mixture we are about to make from penetrating in to the scalp.
Next you’ll use hyularoinc acid for the base liquid of the mixture. Hyularonic acid is a natural DHT blocker, it also rubs into the scalp very easily and doesn’t leave any mess that clog or block the hair follicles.
The other components of the mixture (which you will apply to your scalp later) can then be mixed into the hyularinic acid.
The next component is emu oil. Emu oil is another oil that will naturally reduce the DHT levels on your sc

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