Fenugreek is an herb in the same family as soy and its been used as medicine and food for thousands
of years, in egypt, turkey, france, spain, all over india and was even found in the tomb
of king tut. You had fresh and dried seeds, leaves, twigs, and roots to make the spice,
all used as either a flavoring ingredient or a supplement to deliver a certain benefit. In this
case, hair growth. This video will look at how fenugreek may play a role as a dht blocker, which
we know is the number one culprit when it comes to androgenic alopecia which causes hair balding.
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anymore time, lets get straight into it. Now you may have heard fenugreek having an
elaborate display of very useful biologic compounds like your flavanoids which have
amazing effects in cell signaling and antioxidant uses, coumarins which display an amazing way of
preventing blood clots, vitamins like your A, B, and D’s, they got your alkaloids which are the
basis of a ton of medications, but interestingly what steals the show after doing a quick youtube
search typing in fenugreek, you find a lot of videos actually talking about fenugreek
for hair. It seems to be the most popular use for fenugreek, even though its used as a way to
produce more breast milk, and also used for cramps, But for hair loss and overall hair
health? Is there any actual basis to that. And to really investigate that, you have to
go deep in the studies to try and find a link. So heres what I found. 3 possible roads leading
to how fenugreek will help you restore hair and hopefully prevent further hair loss. And keep in
mind that much of this may be observational and hypothetical research and while Im not claiming
that taking fenugreek will 100% work, im simply extrapolating with how it might, so lets begin.
Starting with how one study back in 2021, looking at a multimodal hair loss treatment
strategy called GASHEE, which contained over 12 phytoactive ingredients that affect multiple
targets in the hair loss cycle, looked at fenugreeks role, and the reasons why those
chose fenugreek as one of their ingredients was because of how it can counteract the effects of
proinflammatory cytokines, such as IL-6 and (TNF-) α, and thus by doing so could positively intervene
in the anagen-to-catagen and catagen-to-telogen stages of the hair cycle, almost simulating the
pathway minoxidil takes when lets say your on rogaine. Which I thought was interesting. And
doing a little bit more digging, if patients who had a form of alopecia, possible had more IL-6,
was there a link, and it turns out there very might just be, as one study looked at how the
levels of IL-6 and other proinflammatory markers were also high in alopecia areata.
The second way in which fenugreek can help with hair loss is:
well looking at one of its major constituents which weve already mentioned. Its flavonoids.
In this study that was published this year on hair oils and the role of fenugreek, because I guess
fenugreek oil has been used for hair balding for quite some time, what they do is actually cause
vasodilation in the scalp. Which guess what, its what minoxidil does as well. Since its speculated
that, rogaine can widen the blood vessels and open potassium channels, allowing more blood and
nutrients to the follicle site. I thought it was also interesting that fenugreek could do that too.
And lastly the most fascinating study, which looked at fenugreeks efficacy against hair loss,
actually mentioned the role of DHT and how fenugreek interacts in a physiological way to
stimulate blood circulation to hair follicles and how they use their steroid saponins to interact
with DHT metabolism. They concluded that treatment with fenugreek containing food supplement results
in favourable effects on hair loss that contribute to improvements in hair growth
observed in their volunteers. Which were 82.9 % who had an improvement for the parameter
hair volume and hair thickness. And 74.3 % reported an improvement of hairs resistance.
And although the exact mechanism is not known, the closest thing I found to it being a dht blocker,
which btw is how finasteride works, by stopping 5-alpha reductase, which regulates the production
of (DHT). And why dht gets a bad rap in hair loss is because, as soon as DHT levels in the scalp go
down, the hair follicles can work to produce hair again. Well fenugreek tries mimic that as well,
fenugreek contains diosgenin, which is a biologically active steroid sapogenin that
can play an oestrogenic role which works as a DHT blocker for restoring hair loss.
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what form do you use? and if you found any results, I would love to hear your thoughts.