Is There A Link? Vitamin D3 And Hair Loss

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I've read a few studies and testimonies regarding vitamin D3 deficiency and hair loss. Some even went as far as saying things like slight temporal hair loss may be due to vitamin D3 deficiency. By deficiency I don't mean a just a little bit below the accepted levels, but something more chronic and significant. Curious to hear what you guys think.

Also for curiosity's sake, have you guys read about any such studies regarding other vitamins/minerals as well? Nowadays everything seems to be about vitamin D3. I've seen a few about zinc but that's about it.

 

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I've read a few studies and testimonies regarding vitamin D3 deficiency and hair loss. Some even went as far as saying things like slight temporal hair loss may be due to vitamin D3 deficiency. By deficiency I don't mean a just a little bit below the accepted levels, but something more chronic and significant. Curious to hear what you guys think.

Also for curiosity's sake, have you guys read about any such studies regarding other vitamins/minerals as well? Nowadays everything seems to be about vitamin D3. I've seen a few about zinc but that's about it.

I dont know what study you read, but the one I remember was about vitamin D3 not being used right inside the hair because of a receptor deficiency. Nothing to do with vitamin D3 levels or anything anyone can control or change.

 

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"One team of researchers at the University of San Francisco recently discovered a molecule called MED that suppresses the vitamin D receptors from producing hair and found that mice grew more hair if they blocked MED. Another team at Harvard Medical School found a different molecule that actually activates the vitamin D receptor, though they haven't found a way to actually produce hair with it. Perhaps most promising is a team of Japanese researchers who added vitamin D to stem cells in their final phases of growth and successfully coaxed these cells into becoming hair follicles."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...cience-getting-closer-curing-baldness/323785/