is there a natural way to get hair thick? ( lost it due to stress 3 years ago)

Thread: Has anyone tried Diatomaceous Earth?

It works very well!
Also try gelatin and bone broth(google for tasty recipes).
Bald is cool but not for everyone.
Good luck OP.

LOL, Roxi, I see you beat me to it,!! =)

google is your friend. Polysorbate and baldness, see what you find. You can find it cheap if you Google it and soap supplies. Seriously.

I don't know, folks -- sounds like a lot of wishful thinking and smoke and mirrors going on here. When I was younger and ate little more than candy and potato chips, I had the most gorgeous hair anyone could imagine -- thick and wavy and long. The older I get, the thinner and less lustrous my hair gets, even though my diet now is 100% organic and is rich in all the food groups (vitamin, minerals, etc.). I had thick hair until I was in my 40s, and that was that. Thinning hair, for most people, is hormonally related and also due to environmental radiation (from, for instance, sitting in front of a computer screen all day).


For younger people, the environment is a huge culprit in the general deterioration of hair thickness. For those of you who are old enough, compare young people's hair today with what you remember about young people's hair, say 20 or 30 years ago. Hair dye plays a part in destroying the natural oils and contributing to premature fall-out, but I think it's even more than that going on. When I was growing up, I remember seeing girls with hair so thick, it would stand out a few inches from their back, but you don't see that anymore. Just compare people's hair from 1970's and 1980's TV shows, and you'll see what I mean.


Something woo-woo is going on...

OP, I'm a 52yo woman and I recently had to spend many hours and evenings researching this topic.

My lovely ob/gyn switched me to a hormone pill (after I'd complained about how expensive the product he had me on was) and that, plus some unbelieveable stress, left me with bald patches which I could not cover with hair styles. Lovely, eh? I had such overwhelming heat flashes my hair folicles switched themselves around and I had areas where my hair I had left was growing the other way.

I'm so relieved to tell you that I have fixed my problem and have loads of short hairs growing so even though I don't have much of it in length, at least the scalp is covered and I again have 'fluff' instead of total flat.

I went to a doctor who did a saliva test NOT a blood test to figure out my hormones. Wasn't even expensive.

That showed my adrenals were totally out of whack - and the drugs the other damn doctor had me on were totally setting me up for female cancers and I was deficient in one hormone and the thyroid needed some help.

I'd bet anything you need DHEA and a mild thyroid stimulant, along with 5,000 vit D, plus other vitamins others have mentioned.

I wash my hair with peppermint oil soap only. You need wash every day.

I sometimes put some drops of copper peptide on my scalp. I believe that is very important. Google it. I massage my frickin' scalp. I take a hair/nails biotin supplement. I'd be taking a calcium/mag/potassium too. And loads of B vitamins.

Stress (including environmental stress) produces cortisol which overloads the thyroid so the adrenals cannot properly make hormones. And yer off. So you have to start with helping the body manage the stress chemicals.

I'm impressed with some of the excellent answers you've received.

Print these answers. There's some good ones here. Sorry about the idiots.

Stop masturbating.

1351499,

I have a challenge for you, and anyone else interested!
Go online and find yourself one of those free calorie counters to do this test. Here is a good one, [link to sparkpeople.com.] Keep track of all of those healthy foods you are eating. When you set up the Nutrition part, don't stop at just calories, carbs fats and proteins, click on to add all of the essential nutrients they have to pick from. This will leave you with one of those Ah HAH moments.
One day you might be lucky to be in range for 'manganese", but most days it might be lacking. This is just one example.
Doing this was a wake up call, to take a good variety of vitamins, MINERALS (vitamins don't get very absorbed without minerals!), Vitamin D3, etc.
What woo hoo going on is our soil is very depleted of the rich nutrients it once offered!

One of the reasons several of us are posting about DE ( Thread: Has anyone tried Diatomaceous Earth? is because it is a very dense organic mineral, even has over 14 trace minerals in it, all from our awesome Creator, no chemicals (Food Grade). If used correctly, it detoxes our machines, gently, allowing our bodies to be able to finally use ALL of these vitamins and minerals to it's fullest, and then enabling healing in the organs. You can't beat this with a stick, especially for the price.

I don't know about that, George Carlin thinks white guys look like a freshly circumcised dick if their bald. Do you really want to go around the rest of your life having everyone think you look like a dick head?

Very interesting. Thanks. I'm going to try the peppermint oil and scalp massage.

Hi Jay....How are you doing today Mr. False Messiah.

I thought with you being a former the squid, you would endorse the drinking of semen, or is it only your fathers that you like?

just bought band mane n tail and showered with it. lets see how it goes

eat right and exercise HARD

i'm 45, and have been bald for about 20 years, but since i started interval training my hair is actually starting to grow back.

too late for me now though, too many dead follicles, but you're young enough it might be worth a try.

i do eat right and i do exercise i am in the gym 5 days a week

I think that's the key! In England they consume lots of black tea with milk and yet lots of males are bald. I remember from a forum that the beneficial effects of minerals and plants, that reduce hairloss, is completely mitigated by drinking milk and coffee. Milk as a whole is not good for consumption by adults (just for infants and kids), but that's another discussion.

How often a week do you need to apply this mixture before you start seeing any result?
How do you deal with the strong garlic scent on your head?

I love Mane n tail! It totally works! I use the Conditioner as a leave in... I don't use it in the shower but wait until I'm out and my hair is towel dried. Then I run a quarter size amount through my hair and leave it in.

OP, you make wanna check out this website: [link to www.infoisus.com]

This guy is some sort of doctor who talks about making natural topical remedies, all based on scientific papers.

B careful,
Your skin is like a second stomach...whatever you put on your hair and skin...your body will have to process....I wouldn't rub it into your skin and nails if it has chemicals...especially if you're looking for a natural remedy. Be careful with chemicals....don't wanna go gettin cancer and stuff

Also, don't forget to shave off your hair often...it may be a paradox but shaving strengthens and cleans the scalp.

I suffered from hair loss and I started to shave it; I never recovered totally but the hair loss stopped and the remaining straws sit well....shave shave shave to conservate your hair!

And it says plainly on the label, for those of conscience, tested on stylists, not animals. Also sold in feed stores, if you want to get the original, but it's the same thing, isn't it, Oubliette?

OP, try this. It has a wide use in the southwest and it's known to work well: yerba de negrita.
A couple of links about it:
[link to store.healingifts.com]
[link to www.taosherb.com]

Here's a vid about it too:

This ^^

Quick, easy, inexpensive (can find in the vitamin aisle in most drugstores) and you WILL see results in under 2 weeks.

Biotin promotes cell growth, so what you will see is thicker hair and stronger fingernails.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

OP,

You can also read up on Biotin on low carb sites and message boards. People who lose weight too fast often have hair falling out in clumps as the body adjusts. That is how I first heard of it years ago. My hair dresser was suspicious at first, but now she swears by it.

Good luck.

Hey OP, I feel your pain. From the day that I noticed heavy shedding to the last hair out was 13 days. I was mortified and unable to tell anyone for over a month. Processing, wasn't happening...so,the long short of it... my cortisol level was elevated continually. A normal stress response is: stress episode -- in response, the adrenal gland releases the hormones needed to assist you in this temporary situation, then levels return to normal. However,continuous high levels of cortisol will reduce the size of hair follicle plug thus, hair is easily shed. My hair grows back a 1/2 inch or so before falling out.

The consensus from my dr's is that my cortisol levels became elevated due to a period of stressful events, without recovery between events. Without the down time, the adrenal gland, continues to kick out the stress hormones plus one. Long term, the adrenal becomes easily agitated and responds with overkill. The process for the adrenal gland to normalize is different for everyone depending upon daily stress, illnesses in family, friends, etc.... Today, 2.5 years later, my cortisol level is almost normal, but, does increase with any kind of mild - moderated stress event. The important thing... is that for first year, levels were consistently high without significant decrease and now the highs and lows have a huge range.

Hair loss is hard. I had always had long healthy hair and then booommm, the doooomm did arrive.

keep up your chin... Here are the products/treatments that have helped me.

9-1-1 Stress Control by Kingbio, a homeopathic spray twice a day. This has done wonders - if I miss several - I can feel the surge of cortisol. Cleaning scalp everyday is sooo important. The cortisol elevated my body temp slightly, plus I wore a baseball cap everyday which only held in the heat. This was not helpful as the heat damaged and altered the actual texture, growth pattern, and thickness of the new growth. Additionally, I have a full body acupuncture treatment every three weeks. Be patient and try to let the things you can't control.. go. and remember...

"your awesomeness is shining"

Now, my head of hair never looked better... my daughter, cut her hair and had it made into the most gorgeous hand wefted human hair wig ever! How blessed am I!
Hope some of my suggestions might be of some help to you!

really? so biotin is just vitamin right no side effects?

Biotin. Take supplements, only buy shampoo and conditioner with biotin in it. Look up "hair loss" with "holistic" and you will get all kinds of answers.

[link to www.earthclinic.com]

See this its usual for a man to lose even some hair by 30.
More than 50% have some baldness by then even though they try to hide it.
It starts at about 18.
Men who have full fluffy heads of hair generally are more female like than men they have more female hormones.
Like the men who cant grow much body hair, in their genes its more female like than male.