Can Alcohol Cause Hair loss? 7 Ways Alcohol is Ruining Your Hair

Hi Everyone! In today's video we ask, Can Alcohol Cause Hair loss? 7 Ways Alcohol is Ruining Your Hair.

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Does alcohol cause hair loss?
Alcohol is full of toxins which can affect your liver, your heart, your skin and even your hair.
It's important to remember to stick within the recommended 14 units of alcohol per week, so about six pints of beer or six medium glasses of wine.

Anything more than that is considered drinking in excess and increases your risk of:
- Heart disease,
- Stroke,
- Liver disease
- Certain types of cancer.
Let’s look at the 7 ways alcohol is ruining your hair and how alcohol causes hair loss/thinning.

Alcohol use changes estrogen levels:
Alcohol use has been shown in research to be connected to increased levels of estrogen. Increased estrogen, particularly in men, can cause problems with hair growth and loss.

Dealing with alcohol hair falling out?
Drinking alcohol dehydrates you:
Heavy alcohol use can lead to damage to the health of your hair. When you’re dehydrated, it can make existing hair follicles very dry and brittle, which makes them more likely to fall out.
Dehydration can also cause dandruff. Alcohol causes hair thinning
Alcohol is a diuretic, meaning it increases our need to urinate which dehydrates the body very quickly.

"This is the reason why your hangovers can be particularly painful in the morning after a night of drinking, your body has a lack of nutrients and in need of proper hydration.
"Water makes up 55-75 per cent of human weight and its used to keep various bodily systems healthy.
A lack of hydration of the skin can cause a loss in the strength and elasticity which can lead to damage in the follicles swell as the hair shaft.
"It may also promote dry skin which then leads to itching and therefore an even more damaged scalp."

Alcohol is too acidic
"When you drink alcohol, this can shift the balance over to the acidic side,"
"And whilst a lot of the foods in our daily diets are weighted on the acidic side such as cheese and meats, we also need our vegetables which are alkaline based.

"The body can use a protein called keratin to reduce acidity, which is the key protein used to build hair follicles and make it stronger, thus more alcohol consumption means the body is using up the keratin, meaning it could cause your hair to feel damaged, brittle and to break, and even cause hair-loss."

Alcohol disrupts your sleep:
When you drink excessively you may sleep, but it’s usually not high-quality sleep. When you don’t sleep enough (or sleep well), it can increase stress, and stress is linked to hair loss. The condition called telogen effluvium, or TE, refers to stress-induced hair loss. When this happens, your hair follicles don’t replenish themselves as they should, but they continue shedding.
Sleep is important as it gives our body time to heal and repair any damage from the day.
If you're not getting enough sleep it can leave you with all kinds of problems.
"Stress has long been a reason many people suffering with hair loss or trichotillomania ( the hair pulling condition) and there are a number of reasons for this," Clare said.
"Stress can enhance neurogenic inflammation, as well as cytokine imbalance which can lead to further inflammation if it’s not treated.
"High levels of stress may also be linked to poor intake of oxygen, and this can reduce the oxygen available for your follicles, reducing the health of your hair.
"Studies have shown that alcohol consumption leads to poor quality of sleep, causing you to be overtired and irritable leaving you stressed, and wanting to itch, scratch or pull your hair again promoting hair loss."
Alcohol blood sugar
Preservatives are bad for your hair!
"Digesting foods and liquids with preservatives in can lead to killing off the good bacteria in our gut.
"Those who drink are at a higher risk of having mineral and vitamin deficiencies, this is usually due to a lack of nutritional intake which is most common in regular alcoholic drinkers, low nutritional levels can in fact lead to hair-loss, this is because zinc plays a key role in the process of keratinisation, the formation of the protein keratin which creates the hair follicle.
"Low levels of zinc can contribute to poor keratinisation levels, and the long-term cases of zinc deficiency can cause follicle hypoplasia, which is the underdevelopment of the follicle.

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