Green Tea

nobel victim

Dear All,

Any good experiences with green tea? I drink quite a lot of this, probably 8 mugs a day. I cannot say that it has helped my hair loss. Is there any reason to continue with this masorchistic behavior? Any positive results from using Green tea?

NV

forhair

I know that green tea is good for over all health and its a anti-oxidant which support the immune system. i don't know how much it is effective for hair loss but there are more positive articles about green tea recently.

nobel victim

Your welcome to ask! But please don't take any of this as gospel, it is just my musing on some hearsay!

From memory the "Bald Truth" book by Spencer Koburn claimed that green tea had a similar effect to proscar, in as much as it produced an over all lowering of DHT in the body. It recommended drinking 5 cups, but why mess about!

I should say I have drunk green tea, in addition to a proscar/minox lifestyle for about 3 years now with no regrowth, which is why I'm curious if anyone else has had better results!

There are a lot of good things about green tea which make me think it is worth having in a regime! Even if you discount what S Koburn has to say.
1- Green tea is supposed to be good for the cirulcation and as such is good for the scalp & follicles. I presume it will allow the better dispersal of more proven hair loss drugs around the body.
2- The mild diuretic effect helps you "detox" if you take as much dubious stuff as I do to help your hair, this is probaly with doing for its own sake!
3-Green tea is meant to be good for reducing colesterol, and I understand that high collesteol is associated with high DHT. (EG A High saturated fat & red meat & processed food diet would all other things being equal result in a higher DHT level in a person.)
4- Green tea is oftern cites in Beauty mags as being part of a skin regime, and general, what is good for the skin is good for the hair.

I may be wrong on any of the above, but it is better for you than coffee!

NV

forhair

I think that coffee grows hair! Smile

nobel victim

Only if you don't wash your cup!

Anyhow I cannot find my copy of Bald Truth so it seems I have no reason at all for caring on my fettish!

Will post again when I find it and something more substantial to comment on!

NV

nobel victim

OK, here it is, from the Bald Truth, pg 64 by S D Kobren

"Green tea contains catechins, a group of compounds that inhibit the enzyme type I 5 alpha-reductase (which is predominately in the skin, while type 2 is in the skin & prostate) which inhibits DHT.
In a chemical reaction like finasteride [Proscar], then green tea prevents the body's manufacture of DHT...

...green tea has been shown in published studies & clinical experience to be effective in preventing and treating MPB."

Ok, so my personal experience is less positive than this as I drink this stuff by the gallon, use proscar & minox & spiro and eat very well and I don't think I have regrown any hair. But do any of you know of these studys, or of any evidence for green tea as a DHT inhibitor?

forhair

I know that green tea is good for hair...but as for any evidence for green tea as a DHT inhibitor...i'm not sure. I think that a combination of green tea inside a hair growth or post surgery healing formulation will be very good tho...

nobel victim

Wise words I think!

One advantage of green tea as a topical would be its anti oxidant propertys? I see a lot of skin creams include green tea now to 'neutralize free radicals' presumably that would be just what a newly transplanted graft would need? (In as much as it would struggle to loose its own toxins until it had a full blood supply?

DHT wise, I should be pretty hirsute if it really did block dht.

Maybe I need to go on the bald truth web site and stir up some fuss!!!

NV

forhair

nobel victim

Thanks for that , you are a real asset! I might have a bit more of that nice Roobosh tea instead from now on!

I am I right in thinking that green tea has about a half to a third of the caffeine of black tea?If so I guess that avoiding high caffeine is good as caffeine will have an affect on the adrenal glands which in turn would encourage more 'male' hormones, and then more dht?

I guess this is a long way of asking what the best drinks are for hair loss!!!!!

NV