“ I ’ m losing my hair on the Wheat Belly lifestyle! ”

It’s a complaint I hear occasionally from people starting the Wheat Belly lifestyle: “I’m losing my hair. Big clumps of hair fall out when I brush!” Why does this happen? And is it permanent? Will people become bald after a few months? Take a look at the many before/afters people have posted on the Wheat Belly Facebook page and the photos I’ve posted over the years on the Wheat Belly Blog. Even within the first few days, we commonly witness a curious and dramatic reduction in facial swelling, reduction in around-the-eye puffiness, reversal of skin redness. Many people look quite different. In other words, we see reversal of skin inflammation upon removal of all wheat and grains, since we are removing the several skin inflammation-provoking components such as gliadin, gliadin-derived peptides, wheat germ agglutinin, and the insulinotrophic amylopectin A. Although we see it most clearly on the face, the process of inflammation reversal is body-wide, from head to toe, from mouth to anus, from airway to brain. Recall that hair is a form of skin and it obviously originates within the skin. When the skin of the scalp experiences reduced inflammation, it sometimes responds with hair loss. So hair loss is an early feature of the response to inflammation reversal that develops in some people. The majority of people who experience this effect find that, after a few months, hair grows back thicker and richer than before. The only time you need to pursue oth...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle facial change grain-free hair loss Inflammation skin Source Type: blogs