Flax seed oil article, load of crap?

http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Common-Hair-Loss-Cure-Supplement-That-Actually-Increases-Your-Hair-Loss&id=774471

Someone posted this on another forum. I took this for 6 weeks with no noticeable hairloss...what you think of the article?

Petch - Crap? Yes, completely.

For starters, flax oil contains a very minute amount of lignans but certainly more than virtually anything else in food. The flax seed hulls are what contain most of the lignans and the oil doesn't contain the hulls.

I took flax seed hull lignan extract and 7-HMR for years which have hundreds of times more lignans than flax oil has. These lignans metabolize into beneficial estrogen like molecules which inhibit 17-Beta-HSD and help decrease the bad estrogens in the body.

As far as flax seed oil goes, it's poorly converted into DHA and EPA from Alpha linoleic acid and may cause an enzyme deficiency, so if one uses a of flax oil it would be a good idea to include magnesium, b6 and zinc to compensate. I prefer to use sources of EPA/DHA for my omega-3 fatty acid supplementation.

CS: What about all those articles that I have read about flax being bad for the thyroid?

CausticSymmetry wrote:Petch - Crap? Yes, completely.

For starters, flax oil contains a very minute amount of lignans but certainly more than virtually anything else in food. The flax seed hulls are what contain most of the lignans and the oil doesn't contain the hulls.

I took flax seed hull lignan extract and 7-HMR for years which have hundreds of times more lignans than flax oil has. These lignans metabolize into beneficial estrogen like molecules which inhibit 17-Beta-HSD and help decrease the bad estrogens in the body.

As far as flax seed oil goes, it's poorly converted into DHA and EPA from Alpha linoleic acid and may cause an enzyme deficiency, so if one uses a of flax oil it would be a good idea to include magnesium, b6 and zinc to compensate. I prefer to use sources of EPA/DHA for my omega-3 fatty acid supplementation.

Warren - Not all foods are right for everyone. The same goitrogenic qualities that flax have also belong to some cruciferious vegetables. If flax were thyroid toxic enough, the following study would not get the result it has.

Notice here that flax lowers Lp(a). Lp(a) tends to increase when thyroid is suppressed.

http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/1/65

I will also add that this study on animals shows that iodine supplementation will reverse the negative effects of such foods if there is a concern.

http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/61/1/87.pdf