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How to assess your own risk factors?

Today’s hot topic, hair loss and the possible causes, stress would be at the bottom of the list, minimal application of common sense but the affect of some steroidal hormones would not be. Is everyone increasing the synthetic D’s and other synthetic vitamins, I don’t know.  More likely an environmental or lifestyle cause affecting the greatest numbers of the population. A chemo agent? If an organism is the culprit, fungus would be my guess whether Candida or some other fungal toxin or overgrowth. Check your hooves and your heels, that’s a joke but fungus often attacks the feet, that might be an extra clue. Lack of sunlight, possibly (cod liver oil). Poor carb digestion, possibly. Poor collagen formation. All would appear with other skin issues like dryness and flaking. Like nail health, hair loss often reflects a lack of nutrients until the follicle is replaced and new growth ensues but not always. It can also reflect a lack of blood flow or blood health. Some fungal species can cause vasoconstriction. The good news, you can overcome nearly all with the right approach.

Hierarchy of risk:

1. SAM (not breastfeeding, poor microbiota formation or destruction). (Re-feeding, microbiota restoration are warranted along with anti oxidants to combat oxidative stress). This is 80% of immune health directly affecting systemic immune and impacts all bodily systems including the brain. Systemic immune is no safeguard in comparison, avoid injections. Microbiota health/function can change both immediately and over time and requires maintenance, especially over age 62.
2. Poor sanitation (remediation or removal)
3. Food security (lack or poor quality)
4. Toxicity/Intoxicants/Pollutants (internal, external, environmental), usually but not always a lifestyle condition.

Possibilities and Eliminations

1. Immediate environment (always begin under your own nose in your immediate environment). This includes diet and lifestyle, drug intake etc.
2. Near environment (occupational, where do you live, city vs. country, arid vs. humid etc.).
3. Immediate physiology (How many clinically identified conditions do you have? Are they related or have a known root cause?) Most clinically labeled conditions have one root cause and are not separate conditions in and of themselves even if they result in a myriad of conditions attached to particular claim.
4. Personal and family history (genetics are not set in stone, however history is important for current gut health and the impact on future offspring, unhealthy microbiota status and resulting conditions are generational, transmissible and reversible).
5. Greater environment vs. impact. Are you exposed to a pollutant or intoxicant that is impacting large segments of society. Are there anomalies in this effect? Who is not impacted and why? Are other biologies impacted, if so which ones, why and how? (Often this can be the greatest help in assessing causation when statistics encompass greater segments of human society). And this may be your starting point in determining how concerned authorities are about a particular environmental hazard, they won’t be protecting you or the environment, they’ll be shielding the industry and themselves from liability and this is a particular bread crumb that is easier to follow than any clinical assessment because authorities avoid human paper trails for the most part.

Test your own theory (deductive reasoning) with the intervention likely to cause the least harm. Give it enough time to provide benefit dependent upon the substance (malnutrition syndromes can take months to reverse and begin with gut health). Remove either yourself or the questionable substance from your immediate environment if you believe the cause is external/environmental and again give it enough time to gauge impact. Remember that it may take months or years to detox and/or repair from the effects of some substances. If time is of importance concentrate on the most powerful intervention you can tolerate while causing the least harm. When it comes to diet, food elimination usually causes more harm than good in the long run. 

This is the best way to help narrow down your own risk and potential for either benefit or greater harm. The most likely cause is right under your nose or your near environment. Out of the top risk factors the majority have lifestyle choice or lifestyle history in the equation rather than external factors, however this does not mean that external/environmental factors don’t or can’t have great impact exceeding lifestyle choice or the ability to combat them, especially when they are synergistic or combined and therefore exert greater influence. The effects of a healthy lifestyle likely won’t overcome greater levels of intoxicants that you may be exposed to whether by choice or not. History is your friend when it comes to assessing causation as there are not many unique events affecting majorities but when there are seek the anomaly to help provide clues for the rule.

Avoid extremes, shiny balls and commissars but pay attention to trending topics, where there is smoke there may be fire but more often than not it’s an intentional blaze with the intent to cause confusion and/or distraction. Use prudence, remember the fundamentals.