How leg training can stop hair loss and regrow your hair
Summary
TLDRThe video script discusses the impact of exercise on hair loss, focusing on the potential benefits of lower body strength training. It references historical observations and a recent study from South Korea that suggests weight-bearing exercises may stimulate hair growth by affecting hormone levels, blood flow, and the scalp's microenvironment. The script challenges fear-mongering around finasteride and advocates for evidence-based approaches to hair loss treatment, including the possible role of physical activity.
Takeaways
- 🔬 The video discusses the relationship between exercise and hair loss, particularly focusing on the effects of lower body weight-bearing exercises on hair growth.
- 💊 The speaker clarifies that while they advocate for finasteride due to its proven effectiveness, they are not closed to new treatments and innovations in hair loss therapy.
- 📚 The speaker's educational background is in kinesiology, which is the study of human movement, and they use this knowledge to explore the link between exercise and hair health.
- 🎭 The video references an 1895 study by Dr. James Bailey that observed hair regrowth in circus strongmen who performed weight-bearing exercises.
- 🐁 A recent study from Korea involving rats suggests that lower body strength training can have beneficial effects on hair growth by influencing various growth factors and hormone levels.
- 🧬 The Korean study found that lower body exercise led to the upregulation of specific genes and receptors, influencing DHT levels and potentially promoting hair growth.
- 🏋️♂️ Resistance training, especially with lower body exercises, was shown to activate growth factors and inhibit negative factors that contribute to hair loss.
- 💉 The study suggests that the effects of lower body exercise on hair growth could be due to the mechanical vibrations and forces transmitted to the scalp during weight training.
- 💡 The video proposes that leg training could be an adjunctive therapy for hair loss, complementing existing treatments like finasteride.
- 🏋️♀️ The speaker encourages viewers to consider barbell training not only for its potential hair growth benefits but also for the overall health and attractiveness of a muscular physique.
- 🌟 The video concludes by emphasizing the importance of scientific literacy in interpreting hair loss research and making informed decisions about treatments.
Q & A
What is the main focus of the speaker's YouTube channel?
-The speaker's YouTube channel focuses on hair loss treatments, with a particular emphasis on finasteride, a medication known for treating hair loss.
Why has the speaker been accused of being a 'finasteride shill'?
-The speaker has been accused of being a 'finasteride shill' because they often advocate for finasteride on their channel, leading some to believe they are promoting it excessively or for personal gain.
What is the speaker's educational background?
-The speaker's educational background is in kinesiology, which is the science of human movement.
Why does the speaker advocate for finasteride despite accusations of being a shill?
-The speaker advocates for finasteride because it is one of the few clinically proven treatments for hair loss, and they aim to provide a resource for effective hair loss treatments.
What is the speaker's stance on the fear-mongering and misinformation about finasteride found online?
-The speaker is against fear-mongering and misinformation about finasteride, advocating for scientific literacy and the use of actual research to inform decisions about hair loss treatments.
What was the first recorded correlation between certain weightbearing exercises and hair regrowth as mentioned in the script?
-The first recorded correlation was made by Dr. James Bailey in 1895, who observed that circus strong men performing weightbearing exercises experienced a sensation or even a reversal of their hair loss.
What is the significance of the recent study titled 'Muscul follicular stimulation of the Wnt pathway and a cyp1 182 knockout rat model of anic alpia'?
-This study is significant because it provides evidence that lower body exercise has specific effects on hair growth and the hair cycle, supporting Dr. Bailey's 19th-century observations with modern scientific research.
What are the main effects of lower body exercise on hair growth as found in the recent study?
-The main effects include the upregulation of specific genes, upregulation of angiotensin receptors in the lower body muscles leading to decreased serum DHT levels, post-exercise edema leading to reduced blood flow to the scalp, and mechanical vibrations from heavy weightlifting that can positively affect the scalp.
Why does the speaker believe that leg training could be an effective adjunctive therapy for hair loss?
-The speaker believes that leg training could be an effective adjunctive therapy for hair loss because the study showed that lower body strength training had multiple beneficial effects on hair growth, including the activation of growth factors and the inhibition of negative growth factors.
What is the 'mechanical follicular feedback loop' mentioned in the script?
-The 'mechanical follicular feedback loop' refers to the oscillating forces created by lifting heavy weights with the lower body that vibrate and spread to the scalp, potentially breaking up scalp calcification and preventing scalp fibrosis, which are end stages of androgenic alopecia.
What is the speaker's view on the importance of leg day in the context of hair loss and physical attractiveness?
-The speaker views leg day as not only important for overall health and physical attractiveness but also as a potential tool in combating hair loss, suggesting that a muscular physique combined with a full head of hair is highly attractive.
Outlines
🧙♂️ The Hair Loss Witcher's Advocacy for Finasteride
The speaker, referred to as a 'hair loss witcher', addresses accusations of being overly focused on finasteride as a hair loss treatment. They clarify that their advocacy stems from its proven effectiveness, comparing the necessity of promoting an effective treatment to a fitness channel advocating for barbell training. The speaker also emphasizes their openness to new treatments and their background in kinesiology, which fuels their passion for debunking hair loss myths and advocating for scientifically-backed solutions. They recount their personal journey with hair loss, the misinformation they encountered, and their mission to provide accurate information to help others avoid similar experiences.
🏋️♂️ Exploring the Connection Between Exercise and Hair Growth
The script delves into the speaker's background in kinesiology and exercise science, pondering the potential overlap between physical exercise and hair growth. It discusses the known benefits of exercise on health and longevity, contrasting them with the lack of attention given to androgenic alopecia, a significant mental health concern. The speaker references historical research by Dr. James Bailey from 1895, which observed hair regrowth in circus strongmen performing weight-bearing exercises. The speaker expresses excitement about this correlation and the need for further exploration into how exercise could potentially influence hair loss.
📚 Recent Research on Exercise's Impact on Hair Loss
The speaker introduces a recent study from South Korea that revisits Dr. Bailey's hypothesis about the effects of exercise on hair growth. Despite the high cost of accessing the study, the speaker manages to obtain it for free, emphasizing the importance of free access to knowledge. The study investigates the biochemical effects of weight training on hair growth, finding that it activates growth factors and inhibits negative factors associated with hair loss. The research also suggests that lower body strength training is particularly beneficial, providing a new perspective on the potential of exercise as a hair loss treatment.
🦵 The Significance of Lower Body Exercise in Hair Regrowth
This paragraph summarizes the key findings of the Korean study, which highlight the specific benefits of lower body exercise on hair growth. The study found that lower body strength training led to the upregulation of numerous genes, increased angiotensin receptor binding resulting in lower serum DHT levels, post-exercise edema that redirected blood flow away from the scalp, and mechanical vibrations from heavy lifting that could break up scalp calcification and fibrosis. The speaker suggests that leg training could be an effective adjunctive therapy for hair loss and encourages viewers to incorporate it into their routines for both its potential hair growth benefits and overall health advantages.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Hair Loss
💡Finasteride
💡5-alpha Reductase Inhibitors
💡Kinesiology
💡DHT (Dihydrotestosterone)
💡Exercise
💡Androgenic Alopecia
💡Research Misinterpretation
💡Fear-mongering
💡Scientific Literacy
💡Mechanical Follicular Feedback Loop
Highlights
The channel focuses on hair loss treatments, particularly finasteride, due to its clinical effectiveness.
The creator is sometimes accused of being a finasteride shill but defends the promotion based on scientific evidence.
The creator's educational background is in kinesiology, adding a unique perspective to hair loss discussions.
Despite not being a medical professional, the creator's competency comes from self-taught research interpretation.
The goal is to provide information on effective hair loss treatments that the creator wished existed when he started losing hair.
The creator criticizes misinformation and fear-mongering in hair loss forums and aims to change the narrative.
A historical case report from 1895 by Dr. James Bailey observed hair regrowth in circus strong men, possibly related to specific exercises.
A recent study from South Korea suggests a link between lower body exercise and hair growth, supporting Bailey's observations.
Exercise, specifically lower body strength training, may have multiple beneficial effects on hair growth.
The study found that lower body exercise upregulated genes and downregulated others, affecting hair growth positively.
Lower body exercise increased angiogenin receptors, leading to decreased serum DHT levels and potentially promoting hair growth.
Post-exercise edema from lower body training redirected blood flow from the scalp to muscles, creating a hypoxic environment beneficial for hair growth.
The mechanical vibrations from heavy lower body exercises may help break up scalp calcification and prevent fibrosis, aiding in hair regrowth.
The study suggests that exercise, particularly lower body strength training, could be an adjunctive therapy for hair loss.
The creator emphasizes the importance of leg training not just for hair growth but also for overall health and physical attractiveness.
The video concludes by encouraging viewers to consider barbell training as a potential tool in combating hair loss.
Transcripts
sup Chums how y'all living hope
everything is Nova and you're all having
a preme week so anyone who has watched
my content knows that my channel is a
hair loss Channel and that I am a hair
YouTuber or more specifically I am a
hair loss Witcher occasionally though I
have been accused by some of focusing
way too much on finasteride I've even
been accused of being a finasteride
shill every now and then and that I
should rename my channel fin Cafe now as
effective and safe as finasterid be some
think that I should expand my horizons
and focus on treatment modalities
outside of finasteride and other 5 a
Inhibitors now let me be perfectly clear
here there is nothing particularly
special to me about faside other than
the fact that it actually works since it
is one of the very few clinically proven
treatments to work it would be
nonsensical for me not to advocate for
it on this channel which is meant to be
a resource for Effective hair loss
treatments which of course finasteride
qualifies as a hair loss ch that doesn't
promote finasteride it would be like a
strength channel that doesn't promote
barbell training however one should not
confuse my enthusiasm for finasteride
with closed mindedness no on the
contrary I absolutely welcome new
Innovations in treating hair loss and I
made many videos on upcoming hair loss
treatments in the pipeline many of which
I've spoken enthusiastically about on
this channel truth be told though I
don't posit myself as some sort of hair
loss Guru and I never have I'm not a
doctor or dermatologist my educational
background is actually in kinesiology
which is the science of human movement
but my passion for the science of hair
loss it comes from my many years of
experience fighting against the slaped
curse and the knowledge that I share
with you fellow hair loss witchers it
comes from my competency in properly
interpreting hair loss research which is
something I taught myself after having
been misled by so much misinformation
and fear mongering in the past simply
put the objective of my channel is to
make sure that you have access to the
information I wish I had access to when
I first started losing my hair I want to
be the hair loss resource I wish existed
when I was a young man so that the young
men of today don't have to go through
all the [ __ ] I went through when I
found out I was losing my hair because
hair loss sufferers deserve better than
that back then if you were to go online
and look up information about hair loss
basically all you would ever see were
hysterical form post from people telling
you that finasteride is a drug that will
completely destroy life in every way you
can imagine often times these exact same
people would swear that there are
natural and safe ways to regrow your
hair like hanging upside down while
massaging your scalp or using various
snake oils like Rosemary saw paletto or
biotin or even eating broccoli I
unfortunately fell victim to this
fear-mongering and pseudoscience back
when I was young and impressionable and
it cost me my hairline which I had to
spend $15,000 trying to restore to just
the semblance of what it once looked
like I know that all that could have
been avoided if I had just trusted the
science over the online anecdotes and
stayed on finasteride rather than
panicking whenever I read some bogus
Horror Story on the hair loss forums
when I learned how to become
scientifically literate enough to
properly interpret hair loss research
though I realized just how absolutely
full of [ __ ] these fearmongers really
were that is when I decided that enough
was enough The Narrative behind hair
loss needed to change once and for all
the scientific reality behind hair loss
had been drowned out by these loud
obnoxious conspiracy theorist incel neck
bearded dorks for way too long hair loss
sufferers desperately needed a voice
that would amplify the scientific
reality about hair loss treatments so
that people could make medical decisions
based on actual scientific data rather
than unverified online anecdotes and if
that voice had to be me then so [ __ ]
be it and so here we are today many
years later and I am happy to tell all
of you hair switchers that we are
winning there are still finasteride
fearmongers online of course but they no
longer dominate the online narrative
like they used to these days they're
largely just considered to be a joke and
whenever they come online to post their
lame so stories that all follow the same
generic template or they post some rat
studies from Dr trash or Dr irck about
the
neurosteroids they usually get laughed
out of the room completely 10 years ago
it was unimaginable that any any of
these finasteride haters would get this
kind of push back but today they do and
often times the push back I see comes
from people who use many of the same
talking points I established in my own
videos which of course is a great honor
to me because it tells me that my
content is working and my objectives
have been successful but we shouldn't
think for a moment that finasteride or
even dutasteride is the final frontier
of hair loss research it turns out that
there is something possibly even better
than finast and dutasteride that has
been right under our very noses this
whole time like I said earlier my
educational background is in kology and
exercise science so my background in
human movement combined with my passion
for fighting hair loss has led me to
wonder is it possible that there may be
some overlap between these two subjects
training human movement especially when
it comes to weightbearing compound
movements is already known to stimulate
many changes to the human organism all
of them are very positive so is it
possible that human physiology and human
kinetics could possibly be combined to
benefit hair growth well we already know
pretty well that exercise has anti-aging
and many longevity benefits that is why
we have an eccentric sent a millionaire
like Brian Johnson who spends most of
his time in his days exercising fasting
and dieing to the point that he now has
the body of a 20-some year old yet with
all the known benefits of exercise on
our health why has there been so little
attention paid to one of the biggest
detriment to our health at least our
mental health I'm of course talking
about the slaphead curse of androgenic
alopecia tell us you turned on or turned
off
shock nine what happened he kind of
looks a bit old and he's Bary like me
Dad and
no
okay to put this all into perspective on
one hand we have disease androgenic
alopecia which we know is caused by the
trash hormone DHT and on the other hand
we have an intervention in the form of
exercise that can also affect our
hormones in various ways so how do these
two seemingly unrelated subjects
interact with each other and if they do
interact could we possibly utilize this
interaction to our advantage to help
stop and reverse hair loss well as usual
Chums it is time to go balls deep into
the influence of exercise on hair loss
so that we can unra this mystery once
and for all as most of my viewers
already know here at the Hair Cafe
Institute of scientific research and
integrity we have a dedicated team of
salarian scientist researchers who work
around the clock night and day to delve
into all the medical archives available
on the internet on the subject of hair
loss in the past we have used this elite
team of hair loss researchers to delve
deeply into hair loss lore and to
uncover and share with you many classic
hair loss articles by some of the
superheroes of the Hair Cafe Cinematic
Universe I'm of course talking about
many protagonists like Dorothy Osborne
and Julian imperato McGinley as well as
some of the evil villains like Dr Albert
cigman who did his experiments on
prisoners as well as post finasterid
syndrome apologists like Dr trash and Dr
earwig but if we want to really uncover
the hidden enigmas of hair loss in human
movement science we're going to have to
go back even further in time than that
we'll have to go back at least a
generation before the time of any of
these hair loss researchers so that we
could find the first article that ever
looked at the link between physical
activity and hair loss after many many
hours of scouring every scientific
journal resource I could possibly find I
finally found it it's this article right
here which is a series of case reports
published in 1895 by a gentleman named
Dr James Bailey the article was entitled
quote unexpected regrowth of hair in
Circus strong men unquote in the article
James Bailey made an interesting
observation that circus performers who
performed Feats of Strength that loaded
the axial skeleton like squats deadlifts
calf races and circus dumbbell presses
they would experience a sensation or
even a reversal of their hair loss so
here are some of the examples he showed
in his article as you can see there is
very little evidence of antic alcia in
any of these cases and keep in mind this
is many many years before things like
faside and Med oxidal existed so the
tools to explain the hair growth
phenomenon among circus strong men it
didn't exist yet back then so this was
of course completely observational data
keep in mind that in 1895 this was long
before we even knew what DHT was or had
the tools to measure things like
hormones but nevertheless This research
is notable as it is the first recorded
correlation between certain
weightbearing exercises and hair
regrowth Dr Bailey made note of the fact
that other circus performers who were
physically gifted like acrobats tight
RPP Walkers and jugglers did not
experience the hair regrowth phenomenon
despite their athleticism so he
attributed the hair regrowth benefit to
the specific movements that strong men
engage in specifically axial loaded
weightbearing strength movements
including squats deadlifts presses and
calf raises of course I don't need to
tell you Chums that correlation does not
equal causation So based on this data
alone we could just write this off as
being coincidental or being due to other
factors honestly even though this paper
is very interesting to me I wouldn't
have drawn anything conclusive from it
other than it just being an interesting
observation that was made in the 19th
century I probably never even would have
known about this particular research or
reported about it here if it weren't for
the fact that I just came across this
paper which was just published last
month that puts the original observation
by James Bailey into an entirely
different perspective it made me realize
that we really do need to take his
observations very seriously this recent
paper is titled quote muscul follicular
stimulation of the w&t wind pathway and
a cyp1 182 knockout rat model of anic
alpia clarifying the dihydrotestosterone
Paradox and rate limiting recovery
factors unquote this article was from
good Korea which is a nation that takes
hair loss very very seriously of course
that's why trends like Korean beauty
standards have been blowing up globally
for the past couple of years needless to
say I was very excited to find this
article but unfortunately like many
other recently published articles on
hair loss it is behind a mammoth pay
costing 134,000 Korean one which is
equivalent to about
$99 and this doesn't even buy the
article it just allows you to rent it
for 48 hours but being that I am a hair
loss Witcher trained at the school the
wolf at K Moren I was able to contact
the Publishers of the article personally
and I use the axi sign on all of them in
order to convince them to give me the
article completely for free so the hair
loss knowledge they've so greedily
sealed away from the public now belongs
to me and as a extension it now also
belongs to all of you because knowledge
should always be free right jumes so
here is the full article now I know what
you're all thinking right now oh what's
this supposed to be Kevin yet another
rut study I see you always say that rut
studies are bogus when you criticize
antien asteroid research yet here you
are posting a study about rodents and
expecting us to take it seriously you
have no intellectual consistency in how
you present your research and you're so
biased so haha well hold on for a minute
Chums if we are looking at cuttingedge
state-of-the-art hair loss research
sometimes we do have to look at rat
studies because preliminary research
begins with rodents even the research on
finasteride initially started off as
just rodent research but today it is a
clinically proven product that has been
tested in tens of thousands of human
subjects rat studies from today can turn
into clinical research studies involving
thousands of human subjects in less than
a decade so let's not throw out the rats
with the bathwater here just yet besides
this study actually resurrects Dr
Bailey's old hypothesis in the
introduction the researchers say quote
anecdotal reports of hair regrowth in
men undergoing strength training
exercises date back over a century yet
until now no one has examined any
connection between certain forms of
exercise despite the fact that exercise
is known to upregulate thousands of Gene
Loy as well as activate growth
stimulating Pathways while at the same
time inhibiting inflammatory factors and
reducing free radical oxygen species it
is scarcely credible that a link between
the micro environment of the dermal Papa
and physical activity would not exist
unquote the methods of this study like
many rat studies are highly complex so I
won't go over every single detail but
what makes the methodology especially
interesting here is that the
investigators didn't just submit the
rats to traditional rodent-based
exercises like an exercise wheel they
actually devised an ingenious scheme to
isolate the exercise to the rats upper
bodies and to their lower bodies as you
can see in these figures here so what
were the results of all this well as
expected weight training exercise in
general had multiple beneficial effects
for the hair as you can see weight-based
exercise activated growth factors such
as vgef igf1 Alpha Prime as well as
activated both the shh the Sonic
Hedgehog pathway and the all important
wind pathway all these are crucial for
hair regrowth meanwhile negative growth
factors that destroy the hair follicles
and our Downstream effects of DHT like
TGF beta 1 were inhibited so resistance
training remarkably has similar
biochemical effects on the hair as
taking finasteride or dutasteride but on
a more practical level the rats who
underwent lower body muscular strength
training had much faster hair regrowth
than the rats who just did aerobic
training in their exercise wheel or did
upper body weight training exercises so
even though the investigators found that
exercise in general enhanced growth
factors they were initially at a loss to
explain the fact that it is specifically
lower body strength training that
stopped hair loss and promoted growth
more than any other form of exercise so
they next did a series of experiments
looking at physiological parameters like
BL flow and also the upregulation of
anent receptors as well as follicular
DHT levels this is all summarized in
these tables and graphs that you can see
very clearly here okay moving on the
bottom line is that the good Koreans
found evidence that lower body exercise
had several specific effects on hair
growth and the hair cycle here are the
main effects that they found number one
there was upregulation of
11,872 specific genes and down
regulation of
13,566 other specific genes admittedly
the function of all these genes is
pretty obscure but all the genes were
found to be specific number two
upregulation of angine receptors in the
muscles of the lower body occurred this
is also seen with the upper body
exercises but given that the muscle mass
of the lower body was greater than the
upper body there was more overall
upregulation in the lower body this
resulted in decreased serum DHT levels
due to increased angine receptor binding
in the muscles and decreased DHT binding
in the scalp number three post exercise
edema occurred and it led to the
shunting of blute flow from the scalp to
the muscles resulting in reduced brute
flow to the scalp well you may think
that lowered BL flow is a bad thing but
actually the opposite is true it is well
known that low oxygen levels in the
scalp actually are a stimulus to hair
growth that is how the drug dioxidine
Works hypoxic environments contrary to
popular belief are optal for hair
regrowth and more muscular edema means
more blood in the muscles and therefore
less blood in the scalp and thus less
oxygen number four finally it is well
known that stabilizing and moving heavy
weights with a lower body results in
oscillating forces that can vibrate and
spread to the scalp this is what the
researchers call the quote mechanical
follicular feedback loop unquote this
predominantly occurs when performing
movements like the high bar squat since
with the high bar squat the barbell is
placed on top of the trapezius the
trapezius it is basically just this
large diamond shaped muscle in the back
that connects to the base of the skull
which in turn connects to the connective
tissue of the skull including the Gallia
ainoa barbells they have something
called a whip you might have heard of it
what a whip is it's basically the flex
that you notice when you're loading up a
barbar that can cause it to feel like it
almost bounces when you do certain
movements like squats this extra
momentum can help assist the lifter
through movements performed with a great
deal of velocity like Olympic movements
and it requires a great deal of skill to
master but almost all barbells even ones
designed for slower powerlifting
movements will have some degree of
barbell whip when you're performing a
barbell squat with enough weight like at
least 125 kg this will cause the bar to
bounce on the trapezius as you perform a
squat with a full range of motion these
oscillating forces combined with the
heavy resistance on the trapezius will
vibrate and the vibrations will be
transmitted up the kinetic chain that
connects the trapezius to the connective
tissue of the scalp this oscillating
force will help break up scalp
calcification as well as prevent scalp
fibrosis which are the end stages of
antic alopecia what's especially notable
is that this effect of reversing scalp
calcification and fibrosis does not
occur with upper body movements so this
suggests that it's not just resistance
training which is important important
for hair growth but also bar placement
and exercise selection movements where
the load is placed closer to the scalp
produce Superior outcomes to other forms
of resistance training so if you're
doing squats at the gym for instance
it's probably better to place the bar in
the high bar Olympic squat position
rather than the low bar ego lift
position of Mark Ripple tits that's why
Olympic weightlifters who train with
high bar back squats and front squats
like fos Deus and Dimitri kokov have
full heads of hair while most
powerlifters end up looking like bald
preg sumo wrestlers so I wouldn't say
this is a full-blown replacement for
finasteride at least not yet but this is
still pretty convincing research from
our friends in good Korea clearly The
Next Step here is human studies but at
the very least I do think leg training
should be seen as a potentially
effective adjunctive therapy for
fighting hair loss skipping leg day and
developing a muscular upper body will
make you look like an absolute buffoon
so it's not like we necessarily needed
another reason to train our legs but the
fact remains that leg training may be
yet another tool that we can use to
defeat the slaphead curse and that is a
blessing because it gives us even more
motivation to hit the gym hard which of
course has a long list of health
benefits so hopefully for those who
watch this video and don't do barbell
training yet this will inspire you to
take up barbell training after all the
only thing more attractive and sexy to a
woman than a full head of hair is a
chiseled muscular physique brought on
through years of dedication of pumping
cold hard iron don't believe me we'll
just take a good look at Jason Blaha
here I rest my case thank you for
watching hair loss witchers God bless
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