Hormones affect the quality of our hair. Usually we talk about stress hormones affecting our hair, but testosterone also plays an important role because it gets converted to dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Scientists believe that DHT causes the hair follicles to shrink. An enzyme called 5-alpha-reductase (5-AR) converts testosterone to DHT. When 5-AR levels are reduced, hair […]
Our environment affects our health We’re living in a modern world with a modern world’s worth of inventions. Unfortunately, a lot of those inventions are doing us harm. The inventions I’m talking about, in this instance, are chemicals that mimic hormones or bind to hormones thereby making them useless. Take Bisphenol-A for example: Endocrine disruptor […]
What are Men’s Sex Hormones? Androgens is the term we use to refer to men’s sex hormones, namely testosterone, androstenedione, androstenediol, dihydrotestosterone (DHT), dehydroepiandosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandosterone sulfate (DHEA-S). All androgens are made from cholesterol via a complex pathway of metabolism with multiple intermediate molecules. This is why it is so important to eat healthy fats, […]
In Chinese medicine, we talk about aging as occurring in periods of 7 years for women and 8 years for men. The oldest extant Chinese medical text, the Huangdi Neijing in its first volume, the Suwen, discusses this normal progression through life. Here is a translation of this portion of the text by Henry C […]
