Danny Roddy on Histamine and Hair Loss

Fascinating piece...

http://www.dannyroddy.com/weblog/antihistaminebaldnessstress

Interestingly Quercetin, which a few folk have talked about on here, is a natural anti-histamine. Time to order some more apples, capers and onions

I like that he also ties together lots of things that, intuitively, I think I've suffered with that may have exacerbate my hair loss...

"A nontechnical way of viewing the problem might be that the balding person is perpetually experiencing the effects of a “winter metabolism,” or: a chronic light deficiency, lower vitamin D level, higher local levels of estrogen, histamine, cortisol, and prolactin, some degree of insulin resistance, hypertension, higher circulating free fatty acids, higher levels of the inflammatory prostaglandins, deranged calcium metabolism, and a reduced resting pulse rate and body temperature."

For example, I found myself estrogen sensitive (anything slightly estrogenic would make my nips itch lol). Or I started suffering from hayfever, which I never did before. My fasting blood sugar wasn't as sharp as it used to be. etc.

http://www.hairlosstalk.com/interact/showthread.php/67606-Idomethacin-as-a-Hair-Loss-Treatment

Idomethacin regrew this man's hair.

Columbo wrote:Fascinating piece...

http://www.dannyroddy.com/weblog/antihistaminebaldnessstress

Cimetidine is a competitive antagonist at the dihydrotestosterone (DHT) receptor, leading to exaggerated effects of estrogens. It is an antihistamine, but that is not the reason why it causes regrowth.

Columbo wrote:Fascinating piece...

http://www.dannyroddy.com/weblog/antihistaminebaldnessstress

Interestingly Quercetin, which a few folk have talked about on here, is a natural anti-histamine. Time to order some more apples, capers and onions

I like that he also ties together lots of things that, intuitively, I think I've suffered with that may have exacerbate my hair loss...

"A nontechnical way of viewing the problem might be that the balding person is perpetually experiencing the effects of a “winter metabolism,” or: a chronic light deficiency, lower vitamin D level, higher local levels of estrogen, histamine, cortisol, and prolactin, some degree of insulin resistance, hypertension, higher circulating free fatty acids, higher levels of the inflammatory prostaglandins, deranged calcium metabolism, and a reduced resting pulse rate and body temperature."

For example, I found myself estrogen sensitive (anything slightly estrogenic would make my nips itch lol). Or I started suffering from hayfever, which I never did before. My fasting blood sugar wasn't as sharp as it used to be. etc.

Eating one red onion everyday is probably as effective as any supplement that I've tried.

Even at doses available in food, quercetin is as effective an anti-depressant as commonly used pharmaceuticals:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20447436

^ Does it matter if you cook it?

I LOVE the taste and smell of cooked red onions.

johndoe1225 wrote:^ Does it matter if you cook it?

I LOVE the taste and smell of cooked red onions.

I usually cut the onion in half, and bake it in the oven for about half an hour. It tastes good.

Oh, I just put some olive oil in a pot, chop it into like 2 inch pieces and fry it.

Love red onion. Capers are super high in quercetin too ... roughly 10g of capers contains the same amount as in 100g of red onion

These are delicious https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Opies-Organic-Capers-in-Spirit-Vinegar/13943011

https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-11-76

That's what I was afraid of.........Let's see if I can tolerate eating raw onions.

johndoe1225 wrote:That's what I was afraid of.........Let's see if I can tolerate eating raw onions.

i eat it every day as a salad.. just cut it and mix it with some green vegetable and lemon and ...wow it is delicious ...for hair regrowth may be topical garlic/onion can help.

Oh yeah I can eat it like that, but I was talking about eating it like you'd eat an apple

long hair wrote:may be topical garlic/onion can help.

This man in the video below brought back his hair with topical garlic, onion and ACV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBYusnB22Pc