Hair Loss-help!

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Permalink Reply by Toeknee on July 2, 2008 at 4:59pm

Hrm.. on whfoods.com. It it says "One of the least well-known of the B-complex vitamins was originally referred to as 'vitamin H' " Here it says: egg yolks as well as Swiss Chard are rich in Biotin. I guess this is actually water soluable, maybe that is the difference.

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Permalink Reply by Toeknee on July 2, 2008 at 5:15pm

o, I found a better link. I like Linus Pauling: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/biotin/

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Permalink Reply by starflower on July 2, 2008 at 7:45am

many different deficiencies such as iron can cause hair loss

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Permalink Reply by nycgrrl on July 2, 2008 at 11:46am

thanks--and i have been anemic in the past so i am trying to pay attention to that. I don't feel fatigued, which is how i felt with anemia. I might take floradix, an herbal iron infusion.

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on July 2, 2008 at 9:13am

in the shower every day chunks of about 10-20 strands fall out...I have very thick hair, so it's not noticeable

I used to loose a lot more than 10 or 20 everyday in the shower, for years, eating healthy vegan for years straight or unhealthy vegan, but me too, my hair was thick, so no one else knew. I wasn't raw then though. I am not vegan now, and my hair is thick, and I might lose 1 hair in the shower, at most, and that is very rare. When I was raw vegan, if I am remembering correct, I didn't lose hair.

I am reading on the Mayo site that physical and or emotional changes can manifest as hair loss

That's interesting. Aajonus says that in his experience (and that of those around him who have done raw veg and done raw pd) that raw veganism is kind of an emotional roller coaster, and that's one of the reasons he prefers raw omni.

Me personally, hm, emotionally raw veganism was hard to deal with all the sudden emotionalities at first, but then I got used to it and it was like a big high all the time, I guess like some kind of drug, maybe like a constant cocaine.

With RAF I mostly feel (since the beginning) a calm loving feeling (it's a different kind of healing vibration), no big high, no big lows, no outbursts, pretty much calm and under control, must be the hormones. The hormone smell is one of the major things that made it hard for me to start eating this diet. I wasn't used to it, as vegan foods didn't smell like hormones to me. I think hormones were kind of disgusting me for a few years before I switched to pd.

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Permalink Reply by Pink Lady Apple on July 2, 2008 at 9:36am

I have always heard that losing anywhere from 50-100 hairs a day is "normal". That our hair follicles grow at different times and that we are always losing hair. Based upon this site that appears to be true.
http://www.wisegeek.com/how-many-hairs-are-lost-from-the-average-hu...

Also, I read somewhere, it could have been in one of Tonya Zavasta's books, that the hair is the last thing that the body will supply nutrients to. So, we have a tendency to gray, and lose hair, because our body isn't receiving the nutrients it needs (there are also those that have it as a hereditary factor). That once our body begins to receive all the necessary nutrients for the organs that it will then start to supply the hair with the means to return to it's natural color. That is why there are people like Ann Wigmore who was able to return to her brown color after being previously gray. Who knows....

I take it that this is not a "normal" occurence for you, otherwise you wouldn't have posted this :) I lose about 20-50 per day, always have. I have a lot of hair that is rather fine so I have never really been concerned about it.

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Permalink Reply by nycgrrl on July 2, 2008 at 11:48am

thanks-yes, this is very unusual for me, i've never lost any hair in any noticeable amount. I don't want to analyze my diet to death, but I do want to be sure i am eating a nice variety....

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Permalink Reply by Chris Burt on July 2, 2008 at 11:25am

"I have experienced a lot of hair loss..in the shower every day"

Stop having showers:)

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on July 2, 2008 at 1:58pm

Sometimes hair loss is partially from touching the scalp a lot and irritating it. I would like to learn more about rolfing though, as I know people who were helped greatly y it.

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on July 2, 2008 at 1:57pm

Maybe it will change back in the winter. Remember, many mammals shed their winter coats, then regain them for the cold again. You are now eating raw, like animals do, maybe that accounts for this.

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Permalink Reply by nycgrrl on July 2, 2008 at 4:46pm

maybe...i'd love to figure the tingling thing out though.

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Permalink Reply by bueller on July 2, 2008 at 6:09pm

I had a similar thing happen. It was when I was eating too much fat, not enough greens and too little protein. I started taking Biotin, B vitamins and B 12 and make pea protein shakes daily and my hair is luxurious now. I also eat a brazil nut a day to get the selenium that is crucial. Sounds like you're on the right track!

Bueller

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