As explained in my first post, I believe that an increase of visceral fat is the main cause of androgenetic alopezia in most cases, and that reducing visceral fat is among the most important things to try, if someone wants to increase hair growth again. https:// www. hairlosstalk.com/interact/threads/visceral-fat-as-a-cause-for-androgenetic-alopecia.104367/
But here is a different idea which could lead to a potential treatment of hair loss with simple means, involving fungi, called mycorrhizal fungi, found on the roots of plants, and living in symbiosis with specialised bacteria. "bacterial-fungal interactions often result in changes to the pathogenicity or the nutritional influence of one or both partners toward plants or animals (including humans). They can also result in unique contributions to biogeochemical cycles and biotechnological processes", https:// www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232736/.
Malassezia are the dominating fungi on many parts of the human skin, including the head (https:// directorsblog.nih.gov/2013/05/28/yes-its-true-theres-fungus-among-us/), living in "significant relationships with the two dominant but reciprocally inhibited bacteria on the scalp (Propionibacterium and Staphylococcus)", while predominance of the Staphylococcus seems to increase dandruff, see https:// www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864613/.
Topical licorice applications are a known home-remedy to encourage hair-growth. The company Mother Earth is selling nitrifying bacteria in bottles. They put one single bacteria strain into their product. If we look at a picture of their staff https:// motherboard-images.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/26066/144344873338592.jpg, they have apparently good skin, still some have visible hair recession.
But as a further observation, there seem to be quite a few middle-aged, male potato farmers who have only little visible hairloss and strong overall hair growth on their head. Of course, there are also many balding potato farmers, and people with only small hairloss in other occupations. Anyway, for some anecdotal evidence we can look at
https:// www. tegut.com/aktuell/artikel/kupferfreier-anbau-von-bio-kartoffeln.html organic potato farmer, http:/ /www. bizzylizzysgoodthings.com/uploads/8/5/5/0/8550580/2472095.jpg organic farmer (male on the left), http:// www. theresaskueche.de/images/Alexandre/IMG_9631.jpg organic potato farmer, https:// pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/476673882448220160/asj5OnuH_400x400.jpeg potato farmer,
http:// www. wernges.de/images/l58-runkel.jpg farm workers at a break when harvesting beets in a west-german village 1958.
President of Bolivia Evo Morales became notorious with statements about hormon injections in poultry, causing baldness, among other things. Of interest here is Morales own hair growth, who comes from a family of potato-farmers.
If we look at the painting "The King everywhere" by Robert Warthmüller, https:// commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Der_K%C3%B6nig_%C3%BCberall2.JPG depiciting Prussian King Frederic and Potato farmer, it should be kept in mind this is no historical picture, but from 100 years after Frederic's death. The artist turned it into a study of the rural folk from different gender and ages. A stricing detail is the still abundant hair growth of the middle-aged farmer in the foreground.
As a conclusion, my hypothesis is, that many famers growing potatos and similar root vegetables, during their work on the field with the plants and soil, have steady infections with some fungi, which normally live on the roots of the plants. As a result, the fungus will partially replace the usual Malassezia on the human skin, in particular on exposed parts of the skin and hairs of the head and hands. Since root fungi live together with nitrifying bacteria, we can expect them to do the same on mammal skin. If the fungus is sitting, say, on a miniaturized velus hair, and can send the mycelium through the skin into the hair follicle, then the bacteria can follow into the follicle too, and can help the hair to grow again.
Suffice it to say that personally, I apply some soup, produced by a fungus on my forehead every day (which I have not further calssified yet). The fungus I found growing abundantly on some topinambur nodules, and then cultivated it on diced potatoes in a jar, which now give an aromatic smell of licorice. I believe there was some growth of new hairs yet with this method.
But here is a different idea which could lead to a potential treatment of hair loss with simple means, involving fungi, called mycorrhizal fungi, found on the roots of plants, and living in symbiosis with specialised bacteria. "bacterial-fungal interactions often result in changes to the pathogenicity or the nutritional influence of one or both partners toward plants or animals (including humans). They can also result in unique contributions to biogeochemical cycles and biotechnological processes", https:// www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232736/.
Malassezia are the dominating fungi on many parts of the human skin, including the head (https:// directorsblog.nih.gov/2013/05/28/yes-its-true-theres-fungus-among-us/), living in "significant relationships with the two dominant but reciprocally inhibited bacteria on the scalp (Propionibacterium and Staphylococcus)", while predominance of the Staphylococcus seems to increase dandruff, see https:// www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864613/.
Topical licorice applications are a known home-remedy to encourage hair-growth. The company Mother Earth is selling nitrifying bacteria in bottles. They put one single bacteria strain into their product. If we look at a picture of their staff https:// motherboard-images.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/26066/144344873338592.jpg, they have apparently good skin, still some have visible hair recession.
But as a further observation, there seem to be quite a few middle-aged, male potato farmers who have only little visible hairloss and strong overall hair growth on their head. Of course, there are also many balding potato farmers, and people with only small hairloss in other occupations. Anyway, for some anecdotal evidence we can look at
https:// www. tegut.com/aktuell/artikel/kupferfreier-anbau-von-bio-kartoffeln.html organic potato farmer, http:/ /www. bizzylizzysgoodthings.com/uploads/8/5/5/0/8550580/2472095.jpg organic farmer (male on the left), http:// www. theresaskueche.de/images/Alexandre/IMG_9631.jpg organic potato farmer, https:// pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/476673882448220160/asj5OnuH_400x400.jpeg potato farmer,
http:// www. wernges.de/images/l58-runkel.jpg farm workers at a break when harvesting beets in a west-german village 1958.
President of Bolivia Evo Morales became notorious with statements about hormon injections in poultry, causing baldness, among other things. Of interest here is Morales own hair growth, who comes from a family of potato-farmers.
If we look at the painting "The King everywhere" by Robert Warthmüller, https:// commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Der_K%C3%B6nig_%C3%BCberall2.JPG depiciting Prussian King Frederic and Potato farmer, it should be kept in mind this is no historical picture, but from 100 years after Frederic's death. The artist turned it into a study of the rural folk from different gender and ages. A stricing detail is the still abundant hair growth of the middle-aged farmer in the foreground.
As a conclusion, my hypothesis is, that many famers growing potatos and similar root vegetables, during their work on the field with the plants and soil, have steady infections with some fungi, which normally live on the roots of the plants. As a result, the fungus will partially replace the usual Malassezia on the human skin, in particular on exposed parts of the skin and hairs of the head and hands. Since root fungi live together with nitrifying bacteria, we can expect them to do the same on mammal skin. If the fungus is sitting, say, on a miniaturized velus hair, and can send the mycelium through the skin into the hair follicle, then the bacteria can follow into the follicle too, and can help the hair to grow again.
Suffice it to say that personally, I apply some soup, produced by a fungus on my forehead every day (which I have not further calssified yet). The fungus I found growing abundantly on some topinambur nodules, and then cultivated it on diced potatoes in a jar, which now give an aromatic smell of licorice. I believe there was some growth of new hairs yet with this method.
