Is hair loss related to kidney deficiency?

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, hair loss and kidney deficiency have a relatively important relationship. There is a type of disease called kidney deficiency-type hair loss, which is mainly because the body's metabolism is affected, resulting in the health of the scalp hair follicle tissue being affected, thus causing hair loss. For such people, they should eat more kidney-tonifying foods and pay attention to moderate exercise.

Kidneys and hair

Kidney essence turns into blood, which nourishes hair; kidney essence turns into vital energy, which stimulates hair growth. Kidney essence nourishes the hair through the Du meridian and meridian qi. The Du meridian branches out from the spine and belongs to the kidneys. Therefore, the nutrition of hair comes from qi and blood, while its vitality is rooted in the kidneys. If the human body has sufficient kidney essence, the hair will develop normally and appear thick, shiny and smooth; otherwise, the hair will be sparse, withered and dull.

Kidney yang deficiency is not exclusive to men, and kidney yin deficiency is not exclusive to women. Just as both men and women have both male and female hormones, men and women can experience kidney yang deficiency and kidney yin deficiency respectively. The relationship between kidney yang and kidney cathode is like the two sex hormones in the human body but not completely the same. Kidney deficiency will lead to hyperactivity of Yang (excessive fire).

When Yang declines, Yin will flourish. Excessive secretion of male hormones will inevitably lead to low estrogen levels, and low estrogen levels will inevitably lead to high male hormone levels. The two are mutually restrictive and interdependent. It is very similar to the yin-yang relationship in traditional Chinese medicine theory. The typical phenomenon of kidney yang hyperactivity caused by kidney yin deficiency in men is hypersexuality. The typical phenomenon of kidney yang deficiency in women is "cold uterus and infertility". It is wrong to say that kidney yang deficiency is exclusive to men and kidney yin deficiency is exclusive to women! Kidney Yin deficiency is specific to hair loss, while Kidney Yang deficiency has nothing to do with hair loss.

Kidneys and hair loss

In modern medicine, kidney deficiency has a very broad scope, which involves the pathological changes and physiological variations of tissue physiological systems, organs and physiological function systems. The pathological changes and health phenomena of endocrine function are a prominent phenomenon in the category of kidney deficiency. Among the main causes of hair loss, the variation of sex hormones (endocrine) is one of the main reasons. Rather than asking whether kidney deficiency can cause hair loss, it is better to say that endocrine (sex hormone) lesions and mutations, one of the phenomena of kidney deficiency, can cause hair loss.