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On the Lighter Side => New Theories => Topic started by: GBSB on 11/09/2008 23:13:36

Title: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: GBSB on 11/09/2008 23:13:36: According to my personal observation, in recent decades Britain and many other country has affected with epidemic proportion of boldness. It affects not only male population in extent unknown to any previous generation in history but as well for the first time in history the boldness effects the female population.

Before I put forward my theory I would like to know do you share my opinion about “epidemic of baldness”.

There isn’t any writhen evidence about epidemic of baldness and to my knowledge, no one ever have pointed on epidemic of baldness. (Is baldness “taboo theme” or my observation is wrong.)

Do you think that in last two to tree decades people are affected with baldness in extent unknown to any previous generation?

Luka Tunjic
Biomechanics and Health (http://www.biomechanicsandhealth.com/)
Title: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: blaze on 25/10/2008 17:58:22: I think you're right, and interesting that you noticed this has increased in recent decades.

My hair has been thinning over the last 10-15 years, and as an electrosensitive, I blame it on the proliferation of wireless technology. Since metals are known to be released into the hair shaft, I believe individual hairs act as 'antennas', and when too many signals are coming in all at once from things like cell phone towers, wifi, etc..., your body compensates by shedding some of its own 'antennas' (hair) - eventually leading to baldness.
Title: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: Bored chemist on 25/10/2008 18:05:59: "According to my personal observation"
Now go and find some real data.

"My hair has been thinning over the last 10-15 years, and as an electrosensitive, I blame it on the proliferation of wireless technology. "
Everybody else blames it on age- but we must all be wrong.

"Since metals are known to be released into the hair shaft"
By whom is that known?
Salts of metals are incorporated into hair (as with opther body tissues) but not the free metal. Since these salts don't conduct electricity they cannot be relevant.
Title: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: lyner on 25/10/2008 19:17:05: As hair fashion gets shorter, the frequency of resonance has been increasing. Perhaps we're developing antennae to microwave frequencies. We can blame Satellite broadcasts on all of this.
Or could it be that hats are less popular and we are starved of blood up there on cold due to chill factor.
Or it could be a reaction to reality TV programs - or knife crime - or the way kids are behaving - or the Labour Government.
Title: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: blaze on 25/10/2008 20:25:00: Quote from: Bored chemist on 25/10/2008 18:05:59
Everybody else blames it on age- but we must all be wrong.

Exactly. Now you are finally making some sense.

Some alternative medicine practitioners will take hair samples to test for metals. By the way, even sodium has a charge to it and is considered a metal, so the strands of hair could very well be acting as antennas.

In fact, if you want to make water boil faster, just add a little salt to it - and then consider what all the EMF/RF in the environment is doing to us 24/7.

In fact, I believe that is why I begin to perspire profusely when I am exposed to any one of these frequencies - my body 'believes' it is being heated, and so it responds by trying to cool me. Sophia could be right, too - it could be satellites. Truthfully, I'm not sure which frequency put me over the edge - I just know that all frequencies now cause my hair to thin. Some of my hairs have actually become wavy since I developed electrosensitivities.

I guess I shouldn't tell you my thoughts though about how I think menopause is not a normal process and how (mostly male) doctors bailed on that issue, too, huh?

Menopause is not normal - not at 50, not at 60, and not at 80 either.
Title: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: Bored chemist on 25/10/2008 20:49:31: Quote from: blaze on 25/10/2008 20:25:00
Quote from: Bored chemist on 25/10/2008 18:05:59
Everybody else blames it on age- but we must all be wrong.

Exactly. Now you are finally making some sense.

Some alternative medicine practitioners will take hair samples to test for metals. By the way, even sodium has a charge to it and is considered a metal, so the strands of hair could very well be acting as antennas.

In fact, if you want to make water boil faster, just add a little salt to it - and then consider what all the EMF/RF in the environment is doing to us 24/7.

In fact, I believe that is why I begin to perspire profusely when I am exposed to any one of these frequencies - my body 'believes' it is being heated, and so it responds by trying to cool me. Sophia could be right, too - it could be satellites. Truthfully, I'm not sure which frequency put me over the edge - I just know that all frequencies now cause my hair to thin. Some of my hairs have actually become wavy since I developed electrosensitivities.

I guess I shouldn't tell you my thoughts though about how I think menopause is not a normal process and how (mostly male) doctors bailed on that issue, too, huh?

Menopause is not normal - not at 50, not at 60, and not at 80 either.

OK so "Some alternative medicine practitioners will take hair samples to test for metals." Yes, no doubt they will, for a fee. But what does this tell you? There are undoubtedly metals compounds present in air and some of them will end up in hair. So what?
"By the way, even sodium has a charge to it and is considered a metal, so the strands of hair could very well be acting as antennas."
Sodium is a metal; it is shiny and comnducts electricity. Salt is a compound of sodium. It isn't silvery and it doesn't conduct electricity- there's no way you could use it as an antenna.
Please learn some science before posting rubbish like that.

A lot of "science for kids" type books and websites talk about the static charge you can build up by combing your hair. The only reason you can do that is that hair is an insulator. Since it doesn't conduct, the presence of metal compounds in it cannot make any difference. It will not act as an antenna.
"In fact, if you want to make water boil faster, just add a little salt to it "
Just plain wrong- salt raises the boiling point of the water and also raises the letent heat of evaporation. It will make the water boil more slowly.

"and then consider what all the EMF/RF in the environment is doing to us 24/7."
A large number of groups who know about electricity (unlike you) have considered this. They have set limits on how much RF energy people can be exposed to. The normal exposures people receive are much lower so the practical answer is that there is no observable effect.

What do you imagine this has to do with salt anyway?

"In fact, I believe that is why I begin to perspire profusely when I am exposed to any one of these frequencies "
When are you not exposed? How can you possibly know that this is the reason for the perspiration?

" I just know that all frequencies now cause my hair to thin"
How do you know- how on earth could you have done the test?

"I guess I shouldn't tell you my thoughts though about how I think menopause is not a normal process and how (mostly male) doctors bailed on that issue, too, huh?"
Probably not. The menopause is mentioned in the old testament. Either you explain their radio transmitters and mobile 'phones or you accept that the menopause is as old as history.
"Menopause is not normal - not at 50, not at 60, and not at 80 either. "
Yes it is, see above.
Title: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: blaze on 26/10/2008 01:38:30: I'll start with menopause here because I know a little bit about menopause. Is that okay with you, bored chemist? - or do you know more about menopause than the average middle-aged woman? - because I can shut up here any time, if you'd like.

Two years ago a doctor said to me, "I've seen women go into menopause as early as 29!"

Lucky for me I questioned the normalcy of an early menopause, and with antibiotics, detoxification, and removal of as much electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from my environment as possible, beginning with a cordless phone I used to sleep next to, my hormones are back full force, and I intend to use them here if need be.

By the way, I thought it was scientific 'fact' that menopause was final and could not be reversed? So what happened with me?

And though I realize men are eager to believe that they are virile until death, whereas a woman shrivels up by the age of 50, somehow that defies nature - don't you think? If a man is able to reproduce into old age, there is no reason why a woman shouldn't be able to do so also.

So my question would be - what are we doing to compromise a woman's ability to bear children into old age?

Considering the fact that they are finding higher levels of magnetic iron oxides in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, but exceptionally higher levels in those of women who suffer from Alzheimer's (due to the fact that women metabolize iron differently than men do - Alzheimer's or not), don't you think that it would be plausible that iron metabolism might be a component to why women enter menopause (and thus become infertile), yet men retain their ability to reproduce into old age?

By the way, it is a myth that women run out of eggs - which has been the explanation for menopause given to women since the beginning of modern medicine. So yet another scientific 'fact' is full of holes, and leaking miserably in front of us all. Read this...

MGH study finds female mammals produce egg cells into adulthood:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/mgh-msf030404.php

And if you think about it, what 20 year old girl would even want to reproduce with an 80 year old man? - or even a 50 year old man, for that matter? Not any young girl I know, though I'm sure you'd like to believe so.

And where exactly in the Bible is menopause described?

Also, where is your scientific proof that the metals found in human hair come from the air? One women who described clear symptoms of electrosensitivities on another forum (and who only believed she had Lyme) had her hair analyzed - interestingly enough, they found high levels of calcium in it, and exposure to this radiation has been shown to specifically affect calcium's efflux, which I believe to be the movement of calcium into and out of the cells. Please correct me if I'm wrong, as my chemistry is obviously quite rusty.

So it's very possible that calcium is involved in electrosensitivity, too, in addition to sodium. In fact, some researchers are finding low levels of calcium in electrosensitivities, though I don't believe that a deficiency of the mineral is the cause of electrosensitivities - I believe it is a byproduct of it.

Hats off to you though regarding sodium - I was wrong! - I looked it up, and adding salt to water does not cause water to boil faster, but it does shorten cooking time! So though my science might have been a little off, my theory still holds - I sweat upon exposure to these frequencies so that my cooking time is lengthened!

And you are correct in saying I am always being exposed to EMR - and I always feel some level of discomfort, even in my own home.

And though my body has done its best at attempting to adapt and survive the levels that I am normally exposed to in my home, it has a threshold of tolerance. And now that I have surpassed my threshold to the point of developing electrosensitivies, new exposures are especially problematic for me and cause an exceptional surge of symptoms.

And I'll say this again - I had these symptoms prior to any knowledge of electrosensitivity (ES), and I later measured my exposures with a special meter to confirm - can't get any blinder than that, considering certain rooms, roads, stores, etc... always seemed to incite symptoms, before I even had a meter to measure them and prove this theory.

In fact, I told my neighbor that I felt horrible in my home, but even worse in hers (before I had this meter), and sure enough, her home measures even higher than mine. In fact, once I had even nearly collapsed upon entering her home - again, before I even knew what electrosensitivity was.
Title: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: Bored chemist on 26/10/2008 10:58:31: Please get to grips with the fact that hair cannot act as an antenna because it doesn't conduct electricity. The amount of sodium's or other metals' salts in it won't affect this.

The Book of Moses says "And it ceased with Sarah after the manner of women and that her womb was dead".
It was well known 4000 years ago that women's reproductive cycle ceased naturally. This cessation is "the manner of women"
(and that's the first time I have ever cited the bible as a reference in support of science.)

Less well documented perhaps, but equally true, is that men's reproductive success falls with age. It's not twentysomethings who get prescriptions for viagra. Older men take longer to father children than younger men. The system is a little biased in favour of men. Of course from your point of view that makes sense- God is a man.
"can't get any blinder than that"
Blinder than reading a meeter is to get someone else to read it while you are not there.
Title: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: blaze on 26/10/2008 20:34:00: Okay, then you read the meter when I'm not there - I'll agree to that. When did I say I was unwilling? But to say that...

1) Woman experiences strange symptoms for months and months upon entering bedroom closet, certain stores, etc...(no knowledge of electrosensitivity, no meter in hand), and tells family, friends, etc... about these closet-provoked symptoms, or Walmart-provoked symptoms, etc...

2) Woman eventually becomes aware of an emerging environmental illness called electrosensitivity, obtains a special meter to measure these effects, and predicts the areas in number 1 will be higher areas of exposure.

3) Woman measures these areas when the meter arrives - every one of these areas is high as predicted.

To say that isn't blind? Well then, maybe I'm not psychosomatic, but instead psychic.

According to the Bible then, Sarah's womb was dead - not her ovaries. And I think it's pretty interesting that you trust that menopause existed 4000 years ago and cite the Bible as proof, but everything else in the Bible is fantasy, or just plain nonsense.

By the way, I assign no gender to 'God', but if I had to, She would be female.

"Virgin Births For Giant Lizards"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6196225.stm

As far as hair goes, so you're telling me that if I were to send a hair sample to a laboratory, no copper, for example, would be detected? And if I were to grab a good chunk of my hair and insert it into an electrical outlet, it would not conduct?
Title: Re: The cause of Hair Loss/Baldness
Post by: Lloyd1977 on 29/06/2019 13:53:39: By far the most common cause of hair loss in men is androgenetic alopecia, also referred to as “male pattern” or “common” baldness. It is caused by the effects of the male hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT) on genetically susceptible scalp hair follicles. This sensitivity to DHT is present mainly in hair follicles that reside in the front, top, and crown of the scalp.

This condition is genetic. It is inherited from the parents. The males with the condition need to accept it as a natural process. The condition can be treated, but most of the solutions suggested for treatment can have damaging effects on the health of the person using the medication.

A poor diet can also cause loss of hair in men. Too much consumption of drugs is also a cause of hair loss. These include medications. Many chemotherapy regimes used in cancer treatments are known for this. Some medical operations like surgery can cause one to lose hair as well.

Hair loss may also signal some underlying problem like diabetes or lupus. As it is not always possible to assess the cause for rapid or excessive hair loss, it is always worth seeking medical advice to diagnose the cause of hair loss.