For those persons who are privy to a normal diet, the factors influencing hair cycling, hair growth and specifically, hair loss are well outside the scope of nutrient-driven biodynamics.  Even homeless people experience hair loss in approximately the same ratio as the rest of the population.  This is evident by observing that residents of homeless shelters may exhibit ailments, poor hygiene, drug addiction and other maladies, the prevalence of pattern hair loss closely coincides with the non-homeless population.

Therefore, rather than nutrition, hair density is largely driven by three factors.  First genetics. because as the saying goes, genes are destiny.  Second, age.  This is why nine year old children do not typically suffer from common pattern hair loss.  You've got to reach a certain point in life before hair loss will occur.  And third, circulating hormones.  Here, steroid hormones and specifically androgen steroid hormones act as the trigger to begin the onset of hair loss.  Interestingly, these factors are true in women and not just men.  

So while diet bears little effect, either positive or negative on hair health, circulating hormones can either make or break the health of your hair.  Today, more than at any time in human history, we understand the metabolic chain of events that cause healthy vigorous hair to whither and die as genetics, age and circulating hormones take their toll. 

While much work remains before a true cure for pattern hair loss becomes a reality, the treatment options have never been better.  Now there are safe and effective choices, including those offered through our company.  As time passes, the cutting edge of science will undoubtedly yield the means to turn on the good genes and turn off the bad so that the software controlling hair caliber is programmed to make thicker strands.  Alternatively, or perhaps additionally, a means to dissect one hair and generate many new hairs may yield an almost infinite supply of viable hairs suitable for implantation into the thinning scalp.  

In our lab, we focus on the far more modest goal of testing naturally-derived compositions in their ability to blunt and reverse the hormonal and biochemical mechanisms behind the most common hair loss disorder.  

To sum up, there are excellent reasons to consume a healthy diet.  However, and as numerous points of data show, protecting your hair against thinning and loss is not something that comes from good nutrition.  I wish it was that easy.  It's not.  The good news is that as time passes the opportunity for each of us, to enjoy thick vibrant hair for one's entire life span,  no matter our genetic destiny, becomes ever more likely.