Actually, 80 10 10 diet, caused a hairloss for me. HUGE ONE. I almost lost half of my hair on that stupid diet 6 years ag0 when I tried it. Sugar wastes zinc and manganese , needed for insulin, thus you get hairloss. Half of people on Peats diet lose the hell out of their hair. Like all of it. Since CO2 and sugar lowers your CO2 in the cell. You drink bubble water, that is a lot of CO2, body will compensate by lower your potassium in the cell. less potassium= less thyroid effect. Less CO2 produced in the cell. HAIRLOSS cure is to produce CO2 in the cell = high thyroid action. But this can be done only if you utilize your CO2 correctly. Lets say if you are missing adrenaline from undermethylation or your have problems with breathing and gas exchange. Taking in more CO2 as a gas and eating more sugar,, will lower your thyroid action in the cell. This should be understood. and I think this is the main misconcept in Ray Peat's theory.
One more time, for your thyroid to work and for you to produce high CO2 INSIDE OF THE CELL. You need to utilize this CO2 well, breathing it out or converting it to bicarbonate with zinc based enzyme. This is why the worst thing you can do is sit on your ass and eat a lot of carbs. This way, your sympathetic nervous system is not active and you don't breathe out CO2 properly , you sit at your computer all day. And if you eat a lot of sugars in this body chemistry, you will lose your hair, and you will get fat since your body will try to control the CO2 production inside of the cell by lowering potassium which switches off your thyroid action and this lowers your CO2 production inside of the cell.
Now for someone very active and with amazing sympathetic activity and methylation and good levels of zinc ( which converts that extra C02 into bicarbonate) your CO2 production will be high inside of the cell since you can utilize this CO2 properly . That is why cure for hairloss is zinc and manganese, these are 2 minerals which are low in it. This should be used instead of finasteride.
Mineral metabolism of 19 patients with hair loss was examined. The analysis showed manganese deficiency in all 19. Eighteen patients showed considerable problems with calcium absorption, and twelve patients had problems with their zinc metabolism. Specific nutritional and mineral therapy resulted in improved hair growth after 2-3 months of treatment. [Blaurock-Busch, E. Wichtige Nahrstoffe fur Gesunde Haut und Haare, Kosmetik Internat. 3/87]
Of course you can take thyroid hormone and that will produce high CO2 in the cell at first, but then your body will just kill your potassium inside of the cell in an attempt to lower your CO2 production.
Raising metabolic rate increases CO2 production inside of the cell. If you don;t have the ways to get rid of this CO2 later on, body will fight raising the metabolic rate, with everythying it has. It will lower potassium inside of your cell and that will turn off your thyroid even if you are taking T3
In most cases , it is zinc and manganese deficiences , and in some cases it is adrenaline deficiency is what causes your body to keep the low metabolic rate. Thus for people with adrenaline problems( methylation block, lack of cofactors for conversion lets say from noradrenaline to adrenaline, ) when you take thyroid, you feel like crap and you will lose hair.
Basically the idea is to substitute opposition of estrogen by progesterone to opposition of estrogen by DHT.( that is another way to look at it, may be it will be easier to understand) Only in this case DHT receptors will be upregulated to normal. They are very sensitive to estrogen. You increase estrogen and estrogen receptors with clomid and and then when you start getting off clomid . it will be leaving your system with estrogen receptors and estrogen high . This is a good thing. you also use dostinex . In this moment you take zinc not to allow progesterone receptors to upregulate. This will make your CNS upregulate DHT receptors. and increase steroid sensitivity and steroid levels for those who have them low.
This is why some people have sensitivity to DHT which causes hairloss., since receptors are upregulated. usually happens with high copper status and goes away with zinc and manganese treatment not finasteride. This should be the hairloss cure instead of finasteride. And metabolism of manganese and zinc is what is impaired in hairloss.
Manganese blocks 3b hsd, zinc upregulates it, but manganese increases prolactin lowering estrogen receptors and thus DHT sensitivity, but zinc increases DHT levels. This should be the pathway of decreasing DHT sensitivity, not thru progesterone receptors.
Any way out of 3 will work. Then if you experience hairloss after you recover, you can add zinc manganese
