The #1 Blood Test Most Overlooked for Hair Loss

today we're going to talk about the number one blood test that's most overlooked when you're evaluating hair loss so whether you have hair loss or thinning of the hair or just a general loss of volume this video is for you now check this out we down here we have the hair follicle there's a big confusion about what a follicle is people think that a follicle is your hair no the follicle is the cavity that supports the hair and what's interesting is the hair is not alive the follicule is alive but the hair is not actually

alive and then we have this little thing underneath the hair root called the dermal pill this is what regulates the growth stages there's three of them one is growth which basically takes between two and seven years okay so your hair has a lifespan about two to seven years and then it goes into this transition phase where it starts to loosen up then the third phase which is the rest phase which basically that hair releases and then you have another one that replaces it and so there's a lot that can go wrong with this area you

you might have this powerful form of testosterone called DHT which can burn out this follicule or interfere with the regulation of the growth making the hair smaller or inhibiting this growth process you also have scalp calcification around this root to the point where you're going to lose blood supply and this is why some people do scalp massages or they try to stimulate the scalp to get the blood flow but they're dealing with scalp calcification now the last point I want to make about this thing right here here is it not only regulates the growth stages

but it also regulates these stem cells which are super important because the stem cells are kind of cells that don't really have a purpose these are specifically going to rest there and wait until you need them and then they turn into a hair cell now let's get into what test would you possibly want to look at to ensure that you have the best chance of getting a full head of hair can you take a while guess what nutrient deficiency that would be if you guessed D3 you are correct but when you get your blood tested

unfortunately the doctor is usually going to say oh it's normal you're fine so I'm going to unpack some things about vitamin D the first question is are there any vitamin D genes associated to hair or hair loss one thing you need to know about vitamin D vitamin D is not really a vitamin it's a hormone and it's involved in 10% of our genes so we have like 25,000 genes so that means it's involved with 2500 different genes and there just so happens to be several really important genes that if you don't have enough vitamin D

that Gene will not get triggered to allow this growing process to occur and specifically down here in in this structure right here the dermal pill so the first Gene I want to talk about is called beta Kine this Gene does a lot it regulates the follicule with the stages of developing a hair this Gene also is essential for going through one phase to another phase and so if there's not enough vitamin D that's going to trigger that Gene you're not going to have this transition and you're really not going to be able to grow the

hair to the potential that you should now I'm going to list down all the genes in the description but I just wanted to mention another Gene just the name of it because I thought it was kind of hilarious Sonic Hedgehog Gene that's right Sonic Hedgehog yeah look it up it's true that's one of the genes that affects the hair that's controlled by vitamin D so that's clue number one number two are The receptors for vitamin D in this follicle absolutely there's a high concentration of vitamin D receptors right around through this area right here so

that explains if you don't have enough vitamin D you're not going to feed the hair what it needs to grow next question I want to ask is what about alopecia isn't that an autoimmune disease the answer is yes and aren't autoimmune diseases Rel reled to a vitamin D deficiency and the answer is yes without vitamin D your immune system is really at risk for developing autoimmune diseases this is why one of the most potent remedies for any autoimmune disease is high levels of vitamin D number one because it gets rid of the inflammation but number

two What vitamin D does to your te- cells and helping put control over the te- cells so they can now differentiate between a normal cell or something else because what is an auto autoimmune disease it's your own body attacking itself because it can't tell the difference between your cell and something else vitamin D regulates that whole process all right the next question is related to the scalp is there any condition related to the scalp that is related to vitamin D and the answer is yes psoriasis on the scalp or on your skin that can be

a severe vitamin D deficiency dandruff is also related to a vitamin D deficiency as well as almost every dermatitis because the remedy for all these different types of skin inflammatory diseases is prednizone what is prazone it's a steroid what does a steroid do it gets rid of inflammation vitamin D is one of the most potent anti-inflammatories but it doesn't come with all the side effects if any side effects because if you have too much buildup of calcium underneath your scalp around this hair follicle it's going to starve off the blood flow the oxygen to that

hair and it's going to die so you're going to have hair loss but the question is how does this relate to vitamin D well there's another little key to this mystery and that is magnesium is the most potent regulator of calcium whether you have calcium building up inside your cell or your mitochondria magnesium is the regulator of that if you've watched any of my other videos I might have talked about vitamin K2 regulator in calcium that's true but magnesium is the co-actor to allow the enzymes for vitamin K2 to work so magnesium is at the

bottom of a lot of calcification problems vitamin D is number one magnesium is number two why because magnesium is involved with 300 different enzymes and there's actually six of those enzymes that relate to hair and so if we don't have the right mineral in the hair can't develop the structure of the hair another one is just in the energy production of the hair growth there it takes energy to grow hair and magnesium is at the heart of making energy all of the energy in your body cannot be created without magnesium there are three different places

in the biochemistry of vitamin D where if you don't have magnesium vitamin D cannot be produced so that's how it relates we need magnesium for vitamin D we also need magnesium to prevent calcification in the scalp so magnesium is really important but the question is why didn't I mention two different blood tests to do magnesium and vitamin D because you cannot test magnesium in your blood and get any accurate information out of all the magnesium in your body only 1% of that is in the blood the rest of it is in different places mainly inside

the cell in different places so when you test magnesium in the blood you do not get a very accurate picture of what's going on in the cells so it's very difficult to test magnesium some people might be willing to do a biopsy that's a great way to test it there are other tests to do but they're they're more difficult and they're not easy to do in fact I know a lot of doctors and I don't know one Doctor Who ever ordered those tests so magnesium is difficult to test it's involved in a lot of different

things 300 different enzymes including vitamin D as well as this calcification thing in your scalp and most people are deficient in magnesium because it's not easy to get and even the doctors don't recognize it because it's not tested so that answers this question right here yes magnesium is involved with a lot of different enzymes related to hair loss but I'm primarily recommending it to allow vitamin D to work now let's get into the testing of vitamin D so you go to your doctor and here she says oh you have normal vitamin D levels okay so

you're okay and let's say it's on the low end like 20 or even 30 or even maybe sometimes 40 well what's not very commonly known is there's two systems of vitamin D okay we have one system that feeds the calcium and the bone but we have another system that has other functions that go beyond calcium like restoring and maintaining and regulating growth of your hair all the vitamin D functions of this work off this other system which is very very different I mean just take a look at what happens you get the sun you eat

Vitamin D from the food you take supplements it goes into your blood most of this vitamin D is feeding the calcium in your bone but very little of it is feeding these other functions I'm talking about your skin your hair your immune system your gut very tiny bits of this right here I'm talking like 0.4% of this vitamin D in your blood so where is the vitamin D coming from it's coming from either the Sun the vitamin D in your food or the supplements this is a different type of vitamin D there's actually three different

types of vitamin D and this is where you're getting most of it right through in here if you're getting Daily Sun if you're eating the right kind of foods and if you take vitamin D on a daily basis because the thing about this form of Vitamin D it only has a 24hour halflife okay this is like two to three weeks 24 hours this means you need daily amounts of either Sun or the vitamin D from the food or the Sun supplements and people don't realize this this is why we have such a massive epidemic of

a vitamin D deficiency problem worldwide in fact the average person depending on where you are in the world has like less than 20 to maybe 30 that is not enough to create a therapeutic change to be able to feed the hair follicules there are so many barriers that a person is up against genetically the color of the skin if it's darker they're going to get less vitamin D if they have insulin resistance diabetes obesity air pollution blocking the sun there's so many different barriers that are going on to prevent vitamin D so what do you

need to do you need to make sure that the blood values when you get your test are at least 70 nanog per milliliter up to 100 or even more okay you need higher amounts to be able to penetrate through all the barriers I'm going to recommend daily amounts of at least 20,000 I use every single day now the first thing that comes to people's mind is oh my gosh that's a toxic amount no it's not if you were out in the sun in the summer for 40 minutes this is how much vitamin D that you

would get no one will ever tell you that being out the Sun for 40 minutes is going to be toxic to you they might say that don't get burned but the point is that you get vitamin D from the Sun and you're going to get like every 20 minutes you're going to get another 10,000 and that is not toxic at all toxicity levels for vitamin D OCC when you're taking hundreds of thousands of vitamin D3 every single day for months and especially without the co-actors this is why I'm recommending the Magnesium with it at least

50 milligrams and take that at night but you want to take the co-actors Magnesium K2 zinc so this data about vitamin D is interesting as it relates to the hair but it's even more interesting that you can't really go by these low normals okay because this is a different system so we want to raise this higher by taking more of it on a daily basis with the co-actors now if you have no hair in your head and you have calcification in your scalp then you might want to take even a little bit more magnesium over

a period of time because that could eventually help regulate the amount of calcium buildup in the soft tissues now there are a few more nutrients I want to share with you related to the hair because I just talked about the most important one and the blood test but let's get into the other ones and I also want to mention that vitamin D also inhibits this DHT from destroying this follicle so vitamin D protects you against high levels of this very powerful form of testosterone so vitamin D does a lot but there's also other nutrients like

zinc controls the growth and repair if you're deficient in zinc you can have dry hair as well and you can have just short hairs or even hair loss so that's that's very important iron is also important in the red blood cells so when you get your fertin levels tested make sure it's above 70 you're normally going to see this in a situation where a woman is menstrating and they're losing iron in which case they need to consume more red meat or liver or liver pills something like that but you might also see it in men

with too much fertin or too much iron now wait a second how could that correlate well what happens there's certain genetic problems where we tend to accumulate at more iron in which case we're very deficient in Iron at the same time this is why especially men that have too much iron are severely anemic because it just doesn't work in that case you might need to go donate blood because it can be very toxic but it can also affect your hair because it's locked up and you also become anemic and also if you're B12 deficient which

you need for the red blood cells you need iron and b12 then the hair follicule can't get oxygen so it's another test to uh take a look at as well as your omega-3s if you're low in omega-3 because maybe you're doing a lot of seed oil that can also create dryness of the hair anyway it's a lot to impact I think it's very important start taking vitamin D and also magnesium and please comment down below if this helps you with any problem that you have with your hair thanks for watching and I will see you

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