Your Thinning Hair Might Be a Stomach Infection

A viral post claims a stomach infection reversal reversed a man's hair loss in 28 days. Dr. Chris Motley checks the science: how H. pylori shuts down your stomach acid, why that starves your hair follicles of iron and B12 before it shows up on a blood test, and why the popular kill stack for it fails for a specific group of people. 

00:00:00 - The claim: hair regrowth in 28 days

00:01:46 - Welcome to the Ancient Health Podcast

00:01:59 - Why this post landed differently this time

00:03:47 - "It is something that is serious": the carcinogen most people shrug off

00:05:24 - Who's carrying it, and the family pattern behind it

00:06:01 - Dr. Motley's own undiagnosed childhood ulcer

00:08:29 - How H. pylori builds an acid-proof shelter out of your own chemistry

00:09:59 - What happens when the ammonia it makes spills into your bloodstream

00:11:25 - How you actually caught it (it's not from someone sneezing on you)

00:14:56 - The acid paradox nobody mentions in the viral post

00:15:46 - Sponsor break: Beam Minerals