How being fat can lead to hair loss and what to do

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Hair folicles need healthy blood flow for them to get the oxygen and nutrients that are needed for maintaining and growing the hair , when you are fat you have elevated cholesteral levels , especailly levels of LDL cholesteral . LDL cholesteral promotes atherosclerosis which leads to vascular narrowing therefore increasing peripheral vascular resistance , this reduces the blood flow to the hair folicles which reduces the oxygen and nutrients that the hair folicles get and can cause the hair folicles to enter an early catagen (hair regression).

This image shows the cardiovascular narrowing from atherosclerosis:
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A study done from 1982 to 1993 concluded that:
compared with their non-bald colleagues, the risk of developing a cardiovascular accident was respectively :
+ 9%, for practitioners whose foreheads were just balding,
+ 23%, for those whose upper skull was largely sparse,
+ 32%, for those whose baldness affected the entire top of the head,
+ 36%, for those with total baldness.

This study therefore concluded that men who are balding had higher cholesteral which eventually lead to the "cardiovascular accident" that was developed this means that higher cholesteral is linked to hair loss





The ways to stop this if youre fat is either to get a stent for lower PVR :

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The stent will reduce peripheral vascular resistance and give your hair folicles increased blood flow

or another way to reduce PVR if you dont have atherosclerosis yet is by using oral minoxidil
How oral minoxidil works:
By opening K_ATP channels on vascular smooth muscle oral minoxidil causes arteriolar vasodilation
This lowers PVR and also increases scalp microcirculation meaning better blood flow to the hair folicles which supports the anagen phase which is where hair growth occurs
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Minoxidil results
 
Botox can also help against MAA. But at the end of the day, nothing matches a 5ARi.
 
Botox can also help against MAA. But at the end of the day, nothing matches a 5ARi.
yeah i shouldve mentioned finasteride and dht
 
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yeah i shouldve mentioned finasteride and dht
Still a cool take nonetheless, but I highly doubt people on here are obese.
 
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not a molecule u retard just kys its over for your iq
 
Still a cool take nonetheless, but I highly doubt people on here are obese.
Yeah but ive seen some people who are kinda fat but their cholesteral probably isnt high enough that this affects them
 
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