- Few things are more embarrassing in a social setting
than looking down at your shoulder,
and it looks like that there's been a snow flurry
pass over only you.
Yeah, dandruff.
Dandruff can be very, very socially embarrassing,
and this video is gonna help you cure your dandruff,
and keep it gone forever.
I'm Doctor Ken Berry, a family physician,
and I'm gonna go over in this video with you
the things that actually cause dandruff,
because if you believe the big corporations
who sell dandruff shampoo, you are misled.
The thing that they're telling you causes dandruff
actually is a very, very minor cause of dandruff.
They make millions of dollars off you believing that,
but it's not actually the truth.
Dandruff is actually a multi-factoral condition,
which means that there are several things
that have to add together
in order to give you the dandruff
that embarrasses you so much.
If you have a close friend, or a loved one
who has just a few flakes,
please consider sharing this video with them,
you could really, really improve their life
and their social confidence
by helping them get rid of the dandruff
and keeping it gone forever.
Share this on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram,
you can share it on YouTube, in an e-mail,
you can share it all over the place,
and you're gonna help your friend
to realize a social confidence
that they might never have otherwise realized.
The multimillion dollar shampoo corporations
would love for you to believe
that the two things that cause dandruff
are having dirty hair,
and also a fungus called Malazzesia globosa.
And actually, one of the biggest,
Head & Shoulders shampoo companies
has videos on YouTube about how this fungus,
this yeast, actually is the root cause of your dandruff,
and how their shampoo, and theirs alone, of course,
will get rid of this fungus,
or make your hair very inhospitable to this fungus.
Malazzesia globosa does play a tiny, tiny part,
probably one percent,
in the overall multi-factoral cascade of events
that leads to your dandruff, or your friend's dandruff,
we can say this is for a friend if you'd like to.
Virtually all dandruff is actually a condition
called Seborrheic dermatitis.
Now, Seborrheic dermatitis can be quite impressive,
it can be quite severe,
but mild cases of Seborrheic dermatitis,
that's what dandruff is,
and the Malazzesia globosa may play a small part,
but it's a very minor role in this.
So, Seborrheic dermatitis,
what is that, and what are the things that cause it?
Seborrheic dermatitis is not caused
by your hair being too dirty, or too oily,
those things have nothing to do with this condition.
Seborrheic dermatitis is caused
by inappropriate inflammation in your scalp,
it's caused by an increase skin cell production
in your scalp,
and it's caused by a poor immune response
to the Malazzesia globosa, and other bacteria
and funguses in your hair, inappropriate, okay,
and we'll get to that in a second.
And then finally, it's caused
by a hormonal imbalance in your body.
And there are multiple reasons why we know
that these causes are absolutely related,
and we'll get to that.
The reason that there is no topical solution,
there is no shampoo, no cream, no oil, no gel
that you can put on your scalp
that fixes dandruff long-term,
it doesn't exist, and it never will,
because the problem is not on the outside,
even though that's where you see the symptom
of the dandruff flakes,
that's not where the problem is,
the problem is on the inside,
the problem is what your skin cells are actually built of,
it results from the inflammation
that's chronic and inappropriate, that shouldn't be there.
Your skin cells are reproducing too quickly,
because there's a growth-spurring substance in your system
at much higher levels than it should be otherwise.
And your hormones are imbalanced
because of various things that we're gonna talk about.
This is the reason that you can use tea tree oil,
coconut oil, aloe vera, apple cider vinegar,
all the dandruff shampoos in the world
on your scalp and your hair,
you can even use the very expensive,
stinky dandruff shampoos that smell horrible,
that you can only use once or twice a week
because they're so intense and they're so toxic
that you don't wanna use them every day.
And so you basically are doomed,
having to use some of these things every day,
or every week for the rest of your life,
or, you can just fix the inappropriate issues
that are going on inside your body,
and never have to worry about dandruff again.
The theory behind why Malazzesia globosa
actually leads to dandruff is that
this fungus breaks down fatty acids on your scalp,
and leads to a buildup of toxic
omega-9 and omega-6 fatty acids.
And, like I said earlier,
maybe one percent of your dandruff problem
is from that source of omega-6 and omega-9 fatty acids.
But you have a much larger source
of omega-6 and omega-9 fatty acids,
and that's what we're gonna talk about first,
is the inflammation part of this, okay?
If you're eating a diet that is rich
in omega-6 and omega-9 fatty acids,
and the worst culprits of all are canola oil,
soybean oil, and sunflower oil.
They're super-high in omega-6 and omega-9 fatty acids.
You're gonna be ingesting many, many, many,
multiple times as many omega-6 and omega-9 fatty acids
as the Malazzesia globosa can ever convert
from the fatty acids in your hair.
So let's not blame on this little fungus,
and this fungus, by the way,
every single human being on the planet
that's ever been tested
is positive for Malazzesia globosa,
it is ubiquitous, all human beings have it.
But only certain people seem to be affected by it?
Obviously that makes no sense.
So the inflammation part of this
is coming from a diet that is rich
in the industrial vegetable seed oils.
You gotta get those outta your diet.
Those are causing a buildup of omega-6 fatty acids
and omega-9 fatty acids all over your body, but the symptom
that we're currently talking about is dandruff.
The next issue we're gonna discuss
is the overproduction of skin cells in your scalp,
and that's actually what dandruff is,
is either individual dead skin cells
that have sloughed off,
or sometimes you can have kind of large plates
that are multiple cells stuck together
that will come off as a huge dandruff flake.
And typically, the bigger the flake,
the more embarrassing it looks on your shoulder,
with your navy shirt on.
There are years and years gone by,
I would have never worn this shirt
to make a video about dandruff,
because I would have been living proof
that dandruff exists.
But by changing the things
that I'm gonna teach you in this video,
I never have dandruff anymore.
I haven't had dandruff in decades,
and I'll never have dandruff again,
because I fixed these things.
So number two is over-production of skin cells.
Now, what tells your cells
to start reproducing faster than they should?
It's an inappropriate growth hormone-like effect,
and it usually comes from having
a chronically high insulin level.
And what causes your insulin level to be chronically high?
It comes from chronically eating too many carbohydrates.
So a diet full of sugar,
whether added sugar or natural sugar,
and a diet full of grains,
whether highly processed grains or whole grains,
is gonna be a high-carbohydrate diet,
and that diet is gonna lead to chronic blood sugar spikes,
which is gonna lead to chronic elevations in your insulin,
and that's gonna give you, all your body cells,
inappropriate signals to grow.
And so your fat cells are gonna store
way more fat than you should,
but in your scalp, what you're gonna notice
is that your skin cell production is greatly increased,
and so you're gonna have all these dead skin cells
that you wouldn't otherwise have.
The next problem is improper immune response.
Now I said earlier that all humans,
every human that's ever been tested has Malazzesia globosa,
the fungus that the shampoo manufacturers
would have you believe is the only cause of dandruff.
We're all populated with that, we all have that.
I have some of that now, so do you.
That's okay, that's normal for us to have
a microbiome on our scalp of different viruses,
different bacteria, and different funguses,
that's not the problem.
The problem is your immune response,
which is overactive, right?
And that's where you get the redness,
and the itching from dandruff or Seborrheic dermatitis,
is from an inappropriate immune response.
So, what's causing this inappropriate immune response?
It's not the fungus, it's nothing wrong with you,
again, it's what you're eating.
When you eat a highly inflammatory diet,
filled, again, with the industrial vegetable seed oils,
with the grains, with the lowfat skim dairy,
all of these things are very inflammatory
to your entire body,
but they are especially inflammatory
to the skin cells in your scalp,
which wind up being dandruff on your shoulder.
And the last cause of dandruff is a hormonal issue, right?
And so we know, as a doctor, I know that dandruff
is more common in men than in women.
That's because of the hormonal differences
between men and women.
And so it's very, very common,
when you're eating an inflammatory, high-carbohydrate diet,
for your insulin, which is a hormone,
to be greatly elevated,
and that great elevation in your insulin
is gonna lead to other inappropriate responses
of your other hormones.
Another hormone that stays elevated chronically
when you're eating a terrible processed diet
is your cortisol level, and again, the cortisol level
doesn't just operate in a vacuum, it has tentacles
in every different body system that you have,
and it's going to affect the levels
of all the other hormones that you have.
And so in order to get your hormone levels
back to within the normal level,
where they need to be for optimal health,
and for minimal dandruff-shedding,
you've gotta lower the carbohydrate intake of your diet,
you've gotta lower the industrial vegetable seed oils
that are so high in omega-6 fatty acids
and omega-9 fatty acids.
I've included links to some research down below,
if you doubt what I'm saying, I don't blame you a bit,
I want you to never blindly believe what I say,
or what anybody else says,
including the Head & Shoulders commercials.
I want you to think with your own mind,
and do your own research,
and so you can check out those research links below
to see the intimate relationship between hyperinsulinemia
and Seborrheic dermatitis, AKA dandruff.
So let's sum all this up,
and let's reformulate this into recommendations.
These are the things that you should change in your life,
and not only is this gonna make your dandruff go away
and keep it gone forever,
but it's also gonna help you lose fat,
it's also gonna help you have more energy,
it's gonna help you sleep better,
it's gonna help you get rid of that fatty liver,
maybe even help you get rid of your type two diabetes
if you have any of those things.
So, number one, you've gotta stop the cycle
of inappropriate chronic inflammation,
and the way you're gonna do that
is to stop eating or cooking with
industrial vegetable seed oils,
like canola oil, like soybean oil,
like safflower oil, like sunflower oil,
like corn oil, like peanut oil.
You're gonna cook with things like beef tallow,
lard, butter, ghee, these are real fats,
you can even use some avocado oil, and some coconut oil.
These are real, healthy fats
that have a much, much lower
omega-9 and omega-6 fatty acid content,
and that's gonna lower the inflammation.
Number two, you're gonna greatly decrease
the amount of sugars and grains that you eat.
And the sugar can be added sugar, like in a soft drink,
or it can be natural sugar,
like in a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice.
Human beings are, by nature, low-carbohydrate animals,
and if you feed us too many carbohydrates on a daily basis,
we start to have inflammation,
and we start to have high insulin,
and we start to have chronic disease,
one of which is Seborrheic dermatitis.
So stop all the sugars, definitely all the snacks,
the cakes, cookies, and pies,
but also the whole wheat bread, also the oatmeal,
also the rice, also any grain
is gonna break down into sugar,
that's gonna spike your blood sugar,
which spikes your insulin,
which leads back to increased skin cell production.
So in place of all those things that you're gonna avoid,
you're gonna start eating lots more meat.
You're gonna eat fatty meats, your gonna eat seafood,
you're gonna eat eggs, you're gonna eat butter,
you're gonna eat some vegetables,
but you're gonna avoid things
that are just chock-full of sugar.
Funguses, like bacteria, love sugar,
and so the more sugar you eat,
whether it's just sugar,
or whether it is wheat that breaks down into sugar,
or whether it's oats that break down into sugar,
you're feeding the fungus, the fungus loves that,
and it's not eating the fatty acids,
it's eating sugar,
and then it's a byproduct from the fungus
is what's breaking down the fatty acids
and causing the inflammation.
The next strategy you're gonna implement
is you're gonna try to get at least five minutes a day
of sunlight on your hair and your scalp.
And I know you're saying, "Wait, what,
"I thought the sun was bad for me!"
No, the sun's actually very good for you,
that is the primary way that we make vitamin D.
I suspect there are many other things
that the sun does for us
that just haven't been discovered yet,
but just remember, funguses like places
that are warm, moist, and dark.
They don't like sunlight, funguses hate sunlight,
that's why you almost never see a mushroom
growing in the sunlight.
So get out in the sun for five minutes a day,
and let the sun shine on your hair,
that's gonna decimate the number of funguses
that you have in your hair and on your scalp.
It's also gonna help give your scalp some vitamin D,
which is also great for immune function,
remember the inappropriate immune function.
Multiple ways the sunlight
for at least five minutes a day on your scalp
is gonna help you never have dandruff again.
The final recommendation is an equivocal recommendation,
it may or may not help.
If you do all the things that I talk about,
then you probably don't need to do this,
but I did include this one
because there's a research study
that shows that taking a good quality probiotic
actually help people have far less dandruff and flaking
than they had before they started the probiotic,
and I included the link to that study as well
down in the show notes.
I don't think that's a requirement,
that's not a necessary step,
but if you wanna go the extra mile,
and do every single thing you can
to get rid of this damn, infernal dandruff,
then you can also take a good quality probiotic.
At the end of this video,
I'm gonna have a playlist pop up here and here,
I never know where,
that is the diet that's gonna help you cure your dandruff
and keep it away forever.
Keto 101 and Carnivore 101, you get to pick between these,
because they're both gonna work.
Whichever one you enjoy the most
and get the most other health benefits from
is also the diet that's gonna help you
keep dandruff gone forever.
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