Diet and Hair Loss — I Need Real Information!!!

Okay, I am hoping this is going to be my last post for a long while (maybe ever!). There is all this contradictory information as to whether exogenous factors can contribute to, accelerate, and/or possibly cause male pattern balding. These include hair gel, dairy, smoking, pot, alcohol, natural increases and dietary sources of growth hormone, injected HGH, shampoo, shower water, pollution, red meat, hormones in meat, weightlifting, l arginine, high saturated fat diets, etc. There are also exogenous factors that supposedly help fight hair loss — green tea, soy, caffeine (in vitro), saw palmetto, pygeum, pumpkin seed extract, omega 3 fatty acids, l arginine, staying away from high saturated fat diets, etc. Finasteride is apparently found in tubers in C. America so apparently diet does do something for hair loss, right? Then we have all these stories about how Native Americans and Inuits have no hair loss and are lactose intolerant, and stories of how Asians have high soy diets and allegedly no hair loss until their diets became Westernized.

I need some answers, man. I can’t believe with all the science and surveys we have we haven’t ascertained how diet affects us, if at all. Should I be drinking soy (which I’ve also heard has phytoestrogens which can stump bone growth) on a daily basis or should I be drinking milk!? It’s so confusing. So I need some definite answers as to whether diet can affect either positively or negatively male pattern hairloss!!

You clearly did a lot of research. When you get your answers and you are clear as a bell on what it all means as you mix and match them, please feel free to share them with me. I do not have all the answers and whenever there are reports of things in the diet that can help hair growth, it can not be scientifically substantiated. Likewise, diets heavy in meat have been reported to have negative impact on hair growth while rice has just the reverse, yet all of this has no science behind it.