Male-26
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation(FMT from now on) is basically a gut bacteria or if you want to get realistic and gross a poop transplants. You take poop from a healthy donor and insert it into your colon through various techniques (I had it done at a clinic using an enema). There are currently people working to extract the bacteria and just put it in a pill (no poop involved). Google it for more information.
Alright, I haven't had to deal with hair loss for like a year now and I cant attribute it to anything else but FMT. I had a FMT done 2 years ago because of an irritable bowl syndrome and some other gastro issues. FMT completely cleared gastro issues I had since I was 22.. so it worked perfectly for that.
I would also like to point out that none of my doctors recommended this for my stomach issues. I only found out about this technique trough a friend of my fathers. And I am lucky to be able to afford it since its not covered by insurance...
FMT + Hair loss:
The unintended consequence of FMT was that I stopped shedding hair almost instantly after the poop transplant. It took like a year for the hair to start looking healthy however.
Another thing that is surprising is that my hair loss began at 16-17 and not at 22-23 when my stomach issues began... and both my uncle and my father are bald so I just assumed my balding is the expression of my genes.
I tried to find research on this, however, hair loss and FMT is only mentioned with alopecia areata and not male pattern baldness. I don't really deal with balding now (maybe dealing with a mediocre hairline and slight thinned hair from 5 years of hairloss). However, I thought this might be an interesting topic for this thread or helpful to somebody.
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation(FMT from now on) is basically a gut bacteria or if you want to get realistic and gross a poop transplants. You take poop from a healthy donor and insert it into your colon through various techniques (I had it done at a clinic using an enema). There are currently people working to extract the bacteria and just put it in a pill (no poop involved). Google it for more information.
Alright, I haven't had to deal with hair loss for like a year now and I cant attribute it to anything else but FMT. I had a FMT done 2 years ago because of an irritable bowl syndrome and some other gastro issues. FMT completely cleared gastro issues I had since I was 22.. so it worked perfectly for that.
I would also like to point out that none of my doctors recommended this for my stomach issues. I only found out about this technique trough a friend of my fathers. And I am lucky to be able to afford it since its not covered by insurance...
FMT + Hair loss:
The unintended consequence of FMT was that I stopped shedding hair almost instantly after the poop transplant. It took like a year for the hair to start looking healthy however.
Another thing that is surprising is that my hair loss began at 16-17 and not at 22-23 when my stomach issues began... and both my uncle and my father are bald so I just assumed my balding is the expression of my genes.
I tried to find research on this, however, hair loss and FMT is only mentioned with alopecia areata and not male pattern baldness. I don't really deal with balding now (maybe dealing with a mediocre hairline and slight thinned hair from 5 years of hairloss). However, I thought this might be an interesting topic for this thread or helpful to somebody.
