HairIsPossible
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The results are in from my headstand experiment. Unfortunately they did nothing to my prevent hair loss and may have perhaps even accelerated it. In reflecting upon the cause the experiment's failure I have ventured into the realm of Chinese Medicine to wield a new a set of tools to understand what Western Medicine refuses to even consider.
Chinese medicine considers hair loss the result of "excessive heat" and "deficient yin qi" in the hair follicles. Now I know that will mean very little to many of you, so I will interpret this in a western perspective. "Heat" is the result of metabolic activity and "deficient yin" would be lack of anabolic activity. Now it should be easy to understand how a localized physiological condition of that description would result in diminishing growth of hair follicles. For a hair follicle to grow, the cells of the follicle must be in an anabolic state, however if they cannot maintain or sustain such a state, and instead too frequently remain in a metabolic state, growth cannot occur and over time increasing baldness is the result.
From a personal perspective, I have noticed that my head is quite frequently very hot to the touch where my hair loss is occurring compared to other parts of my body and scalp. This indicates there is metabolic activity in that region and this corresponds with the claimed cause of hair loss as described by chinese medical textbooks. I do believe DHT may play a role in causing this "heat" as may hypoxia and loss of subcutaneous fatty tissue, however I will need more time to reflect upon these ideas and more observation of what causes my own head to become hot before I will be ready to take another stab at constructing a more complete theory. However, I feel optimistic we are the right track to finally gaining a deeper understanding about the pathology of this disease and I have no doubt that upon reaching that understanding far more desirable methods of treatment and even cure will be made accessible.
Chinese medicine considers hair loss the result of "excessive heat" and "deficient yin qi" in the hair follicles. Now I know that will mean very little to many of you, so I will interpret this in a western perspective. "Heat" is the result of metabolic activity and "deficient yin" would be lack of anabolic activity. Now it should be easy to understand how a localized physiological condition of that description would result in diminishing growth of hair follicles. For a hair follicle to grow, the cells of the follicle must be in an anabolic state, however if they cannot maintain or sustain such a state, and instead too frequently remain in a metabolic state, growth cannot occur and over time increasing baldness is the result.
From a personal perspective, I have noticed that my head is quite frequently very hot to the touch where my hair loss is occurring compared to other parts of my body and scalp. This indicates there is metabolic activity in that region and this corresponds with the claimed cause of hair loss as described by chinese medical textbooks. I do believe DHT may play a role in causing this "heat" as may hypoxia and loss of subcutaneous fatty tissue, however I will need more time to reflect upon these ideas and more observation of what causes my own head to become hot before I will be ready to take another stab at constructing a more complete theory. However, I feel optimistic we are the right track to finally gaining a deeper understanding about the pathology of this disease and I have no doubt that upon reaching that understanding far more desirable methods of treatment and even cure will be made accessible.
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