This Natural Food Stops Hair from Thinning (regrows follicles) — Transcript

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1. 0:00I uncovered this about hair loss
2. 0:01personally, kind of the hard way.
3. 0:03There's a compound that can actually
4. 0:04block the exact same enzyme as the hair
5. 0:07loss drug finasteride, and it's in a
6. 0:09fruit that there's a very good chance
7. 0:11you had some of this morning. This
8. 0:12particular fruit has 44 times more of
9. 0:16this hair loss prevention compound than
10. 0:18any other fruit in the produce section.
11. 0:2044 times. It's the avocado. And we're
12. 0:22going to talk about how to use it and
13. 0:23why it works, but I'm also going to talk
14. 0:25about what you can combine it with
15. 0:27because knowing that it's an avocado
16. 0:29doesn't change things, right? Like maybe
17. 0:30you had a little avocado with your eggs
18. 0:31and it's not like your hair magically
19. 0:32started growing. But nobody's really
20. 0:34talking about avocado this way because
21. 0:36everyone's just kind of stuck on the
22. 0:37healthy fats thing, which is great.
23. 0:38Avocados are great, but a half of an
24. 0:40avocado per day could literally be one
25. 0:43of the most powerful foods for holding
26. 0:45on to your hair. I mean, I'm not saying
27. 0:46that it's going to beat pharmaceuticals,
28. 0:48but I am saying when it comes to foods,
29. 0:50it does have power. So I'm going to show
30. 0:51you why. I'm going to talk about how
31. 0:52much you need, and then I'm going to
32. 0:54talk about how to build it into one
33. 0:55particular like food combination that
34. 0:58hits your hair follicles from two
35. 0:59different directions at once. So let's
36. 1:01start with the enemy. The most common
37. 1:03form of hair loss in men and women is
38. 1:05driven by a hormone called
39. 1:07dihydrotestosterone, DHT. Now your body
40. 1:09makes DHT by running testosterone
41. 1:11through an enzyme called 5-alpha
42. 1:14reductase. In follicles that are
43. 1:16genetically sensitive to it, DHT,
44. 1:19dihydrotestosterone, slowly shrinks the
45. 1:21follicle year after year until the hair
46. 1:23gets thinner and thinner and shorter and
47. 1:25shorter and eventually stops growing,
48. 1:26falls out. That's the whole thing in one
49. 1:28sentence, right? So too much
50. 1:29testosterone, too much DHT at a
51. 1:31sensitive follicle over time. That's
52. 1:33male pattern baldness, but it happens to
53. 1:34women too. So the way you fight it is
54. 1:36you block that enzyme. You slow the
55. 1:38conversion of testosterone into DHT and
56. 1:41you slow the drainage, like you slow
57. 1:43down that damage. That is the whole
58. 1:45point behind things like finasteride and
59. 1:47dutasteride. They inhibit 5-alpha
60. 1:49reductase. The avocado comes in because
61. 1:52it actually has interesting compounds
62. 1:55that work on this. Now I first learned
63. 1:57about this because I was taking a
64. 1:59compound called
65. 2:00Ali. I've talked about it before. Maybe
66. 2:02you've heard Huberman talk about it.
67. 2:03It's very real. It jacked my
68. 2:05testosterone up so fast, and it was
69. 2:07great. Libido is through the roof. My
70. 2:09lifts were amazing. I was putting on
71. 2:11muscle more than I normally did in a
72. 2:13deficit. It was powerful. It worked. It
73. 2:15worked so well, and evidently the dose
74. 2:17was too high that I was taking that I
75. 2:19actually noticed my hair was thinning.
76. 2:20So I started going into the research,
77. 2:22and I almost took finasteride, and then
78. 2:24I learned about how I could do it with
79. 2:26food. I quickly changed my diet. I added
80. 2:28more avocado back in, and I did notice a
81. 2:30difference. Now, I also reduced my dose
82. 2:32of Tongkat Ali because I realized I
83. 2:34didn't need as much. I also ended up
84. 2:36switching to a better brand that I think
85. 2:38had less like byproduct in it. So the
86. 2:39one I use now, just FYI if you're
87. 2:41curious, it's called Row Nutrition. It's
88. 2:43actually a liquid Tongkat Ali, and it's
89. 2:45in a liposome. So I was concerned that
90. 2:47maybe Tongkat Ali, since it's so
91. 2:49powerful at improving like the release
92. 2:51of testosterone from sex hormone binding
93. 2:52globulin and it's got it works on a
94. 2:54couple of different axes. It's very very
95. 2:55powerful. Again, we've seen the research
96. 2:57with it, but sometimes it can be like
97. 2:59not that pure, and maybe you're getting
98. 3:01just weird effects from it. So the
99. 3:02Tongkat Ali from Row is very pure. It's
100. 3:04good quality, and it's in a liposomal
101. 3:06form, so you're getting better delivery,
102. 3:08better absorption of it. Liposome means
103. 3:10the Tongkat Ali molecule is protected by
104. 3:12a phospholipid bilayer so it becomes fat
105. 3:14soluble so you get potentially better
106. 3:16absorption with it, and it works. It's
107. 3:17cool. It's in a liquid form. Anyway, not
108. 3:19to go off on a tangent, but I put that
109. 3:20link down below. That's also a 20% off
110. 3:22code, delauer20, if you want to try it
111. 3:24out. Careful, it actually works. Okay,
112. 3:26so you don't need much of it. Not to
113. 3:27digress too much, that's a great
114. 3:28product, great company. Okay, but
115. 3:29avocados have a plant compound in them
116. 3:33that are called beta sitosterols. Beta
117. 3:36sitosterol inhibits 5-alpha reductase.
118. 3:38It's a different pathway from
119. 3:40finasteride, but it inhibits the same
120. 3:41enzyme. So it's the same target that
121. 3:43these drugs are going after. It's just a
122. 3:44food doing it, and I will always go to
123. 3:46food first. The mechanism is very well
124. 3:48documented. The amount sitting in an
125. 3:51avocado is you can't ignore it. There's
126. 3:53a lot. And like how much beta sitosterol
127. 3:55are you actually getting? Well, there's
128. 3:56a compositional analysis in the journal
129. 3:59of the American Dietetic Association,
130. 4:01and the number is wildly high for a
131. 4:02fruit. A single avocado has about 132
132. 4:05milligrams of beta sitosterol. Most
133. 4:08fruits and vegetables and other foods,
134. 4:10they give you about three, right? That's
135. 4:11about 44 times more than most other
136. 4:14foods. So it puts a whole avocado in
137. 4:17about the same range as a dedicated
138. 4:19phytosterol supplement, like going out
139. 4:21and buying a powder that's supposed to
140. 4:23be good for this. I would much rather
141. 4:24eat an avocado. But what makes this
142. 4:25practical is that you actually don't
143. 4:26even need a whole avocado. Like a half
144. 4:28of an avocado still gives you about 60
145. 4:30milligrams of beta sitosterol, which is
146. 4:32a serious dose for a food. So this whole
147. 4:34thing was never about eating a bunch of
148. 4:35avocado by the bowl. It was more about
149. 4:37consistency. So what we need is about
150. 4:39half of an avocado per day consistently.
151. 4:42Now there's also another bonus that
152. 4:43comes with eating the avocado instead of
153. 4:45like a phytosterol pill. Avocados,
154. 4:46particular fats, these oleic acid, they
155. 4:49carry their own phytosterols across your
156. 4:51gut wall. So the compounds like the beta
157. 4:54sitosterol in the fruit absorb better in
158. 4:58the same dose than they would in a dry
159. 5:00supplement because they get carried in
160. 5:02because of these actual phytosterols in
161. 5:04the avocado itself. So the fat and the
162. 5:06sterol come prepackaged together, which
163. 5:08is how your body wants to absorb it. But
164. 5:10before you go all in on avocado, there's
165. 5:12actually another food that we can use.
166. 5:14I've done other videos on this. Pumpkin
167. 5:15seeds, but combining them is cool
168. 5:17because they hit the same enzyme, the 5
169. 5:19alpha reductase, but through a different
170. 5:20class of sterols, the delta 7 sterols.
171. 5:22So now you're working two different
172. 5:24pathways at the same target. So pumpkin
173. 5:26seeds have the stronger direct human
174. 5:28trial of the two. They actually have
175. 5:29RCTs on them, like double blind placebo
176. 5:31controlled study. There was one of like
177. 5:32over 70 men with hair loss. They took
178. 5:34pumpkin seed oil for 24 weeks and ended
179. 5:37up with significantly more hair than the
180. 5:38placebo did. So it works. But avocados
181. 5:40work a different axis and there's just
182. 5:42not a lot of human trials with it. So
183. 5:43it's early, but hey, it's pretty damn
184. 5:45safe to say go eat some avocado. Pumpkin
185. 5:47seeds and avocados kind of go well
186. 5:50together. It's kind of a cool thing.
187. 5:51Avocados like direct hair evidence is
188. 5:54not as strong as the pumpkin seeds. Like
189. 5:56there's some small pilot trials that
190. 5:58combine like beta sitosterol with other
191. 6:00things and there's benefits, but it's
192. 6:01just hard to like, I don't know, like
193. 6:03distill the data. The mechanism is still
194. 6:05very, very solid though, right? I'd
195. 6:06rather you hear it from you from like an
196. 6:08honest approach saying that, yeah, we
197. 6:09need more human data, but it's still
198. 6:10very solid. But here's why I'd still do
199. 6:12it. The downside is basically zero.
200. 6:14Okay, these are foods. You're hitting
201. 6:16like the one enzyme from two different
202. 6:18directions and you're working the same
203. 6:20axis that we're targeting with
204. 6:21pharmaceutical intervention, but with
205. 6:23food. And you have two routes at the
206. 6:24same target, beats leaning on one. And
207. 6:26guess what? You're still getting
208. 6:27vitamins and minerals and benefits of
209. 6:29eating pumpkin seeds and avocado anyway.
210. 6:30If you have like half of an avocado,
211. 6:32that's all you need for the beta
212. 6:33sitosterol. Add like a small tablespoon
213. 6:35handful maybe pumpkin seeds for the
214. 6:37delta seven sterols and then build
215. 6:38around that. So I would go with maybe
216. 6:40like deep leafy greens. I would go with
217. 6:42broccoli for the NRF 2, the
218. 6:44sulforaphane, huge effect there
219. 6:45beneficially from the diindolylmethane
220. 6:47from DIM in avocado cruciferous
221. 6:49vegetables that can help modulate
222. 6:51estrogen metabolism. Testosterone and
223. 6:53estrogen need to be in balance, right?
224. 6:54So cruciferous vegetables with some
225. 6:56avocado with some pumpkin seeds on a
226. 6:58little salad with a little avocado oil,
227. 7:00you're sitting in a pretty darn good
228. 7:02spot. The cool thing is if you added
229. 7:03some carrots or if you added some
230. 7:04colorful foods, we actually see that
231. 7:06avocados increase the absorption of
232. 7:08carotenoids up to 15 times. So you
233. 7:10actually absorb more nutrients from a
234. 7:12salad with avocado on it than a salad
235. 7:14without, period. Then you add your
236. 7:15protein, add your eggs, whatever, right?
237. 7:17You've got a muscle building bowl that's
238. 7:18good for hair loss that also is having
239. 7:21some huge benefits on absorbing the beta
240. 7:22carotene. That's the whole point, like
241. 7:24right? A salad that blocks DHT. I'm not
242. 7:26even a big salad guy, but I say it like
243. 7:27simply like right on the side. Like a
244. 7:29salad that blocks DHT from two
245. 7:30directions, multiplies the nutrients
246. 7:32that you're eating, you pull them in and
247. 7:34actually absorb them better, and protein
248. 7:35to be genuinely anabolic. There you go.
249. 7:37Like you're getting the absolute most
250. 7:39you can. Have that salad a few times per
251. 7:41week. Try to have the avocado every day
252. 7:42if you can because the consistency is
253. 7:44the entire game here. These are slow
254. 7:47cumulative effects on the follicle, not
255. 7:49something overnight. I have to repeat,
256. 7:51cumulative effects are the most powerful
257. 7:53way to impact the follicle. So half of
258. 7:55an avocado pretty much every day is
259. 7:57powerful, especially with the pumpkin
260. 7:58seeds. So to bring it back home, make it
261. 8:00simple. Hair loss driven by DHT. DHT is
262. 8:03made by an enzyme and both avocado and
263. 8:05pumpkin seeds slow that enzyme down,
264. 8:07period. Avocado 44 times more of that
265. 8:10THC blocking sterol than any other fruit
266. 8:12and most other foods. So even though the
267. 8:14evidence isn't like pharmaceutical
268. 8:15level, and I honestly don't want to
269. 8:17pretend that it is, the mechanism is
270. 8:19what these pharmaceuticals are modeled
271. 8:21after. It's very very real. Now I did
272. 8:23another video that talks about an
273. 8:25interesting way to combat tartar,
274. 8:27cavities, and gingivitis, right? These
275. 8:29are other weird things that come along
276. 8:31with age and it's things that people
277. 8:32don't necessarily like talk about. Like
278. 8:35they know they're dealing with them, but
279. 8:36it's a simple rinse that you can make
280. 8:37with something that's probably in your
281. 8:38pantry and it's backed by science cuz
282. 8:39I'm just a nerd with a backwards hat
283. 8:41that's trying to talk about cool things
284. 8:43that food does. So anyway, that link is
285. 8:45right here to that video. Check it out
286. 8:46and I'll see you tomorrow.