The Best Peptide & Supplement Stack For Hair Growth, Smart Drugs For An Aging Brain, “Aging Anxiety” & More! Solosode #499

**Ben Greenfield** (0:00)
My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast, the best peptide supplement stack for hair growth, smart drugs, aging, anxiety and a whole lot more. Welcome to the Boundless Life, with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity and beyond.
All right, welcome to the show. Open up my beverage here. This is not a podcast sponsor. They should be Lemonade Salt Elemente. Do you say elemente or element? I don't know. It's a sparkling electrolyte drink. 500 milligrams sodium, blah, blah, blah, potassium, blah, blah, blah, magnesium.
I just need some to wet my whistle.
This is a solo, so the Q&A solo, so with a few news flashes thrown in. I've been doing these for years, just as a chance to get some cool information out to you guys. It's just stupid old me. None of those smart cookies that I usually interview while walking on the treadmill. The show notes are going to be a bengreenfieldlife.com/499.
I guess that puts us on the cusp of our 500th episode. Speaking of treadmill, a few of you have reached out recently and told me that you don't like it when I'm breathless on the treadmill. I did say breathless, not breathless on the treadmill. Interviewing a podcast guest or just talking to you in general, I'm a little bit into movement. I think walking while you're working is something that I've talked about quite a bit as a health enhancing tip. However, I'm curious. I want to hear in the comment section, how many of you does it annoy the heck out of? How many of you are like, well, Ben's practicing what he preaches. How many of you couldn't care less and listen anyways? Go to bengreenfieldlife.com/499.
Let me know your thoughts on the treadmill.
That being said, let's jump into something truly important. We are going to start with listener Q&A. You can go to bengreenfieldlife.com and leave your questions. Ryan from Australia. Should I use an Australian accent? I'll try. Alright, Ryan, if you were to have a hair transplant, what peptide stack or supplement stack would you take from your view? Australia is very sensitive here talking about these topics, and getting advice is difficult.
Mate, lost all my Australian listeners. I'm sorry. Okay, so for those of you who didn't understand my accent at all, Ryan's asking about hair transplants and whether there is a peptide stack or a supplement stack that might help with that. Well, let's start here. I interviewed my friend and world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Cameron Chestnut in a widely popular podcast episode on all things hair loss, hair growth, hair discoloration, et cetera. And he is one of the top hair restoration surgeons in the US. The key takeaway from that conversation, which I'll link to in the show notes, is that modern FUE, which is called Follicular Unit Extraction, Follicular Unit Extraction, is the gold standard for a re-seeding hairline. That involves taking individual hair follicles from a donor area. I mean, it could be anywhere, as long as it's a hair, it could be your freaking pubes. But that gets transplanted, leaving tiny dot scars rather than a long linear scar, what's called the old strip method. And the result can be pretty undetectable with Follicular Unit Extraction.
It is only moving existing follicles from an area of your body. It can be the back of your head, for example, to the thinning areas. It does not stop the progressive loss of your native hair.
Meaning that if you have a lifestyle that's full of, let's say, inflammation, poor blood flow to the scalp, poor genetics, when it comes to your propensity for hair loss, use of testosterone-enhancing therapies that result in a large amount of DHT building up in your body. All of that will continue to occur, even if you get a hair transplantation.
Which means if you don't address the underlying cause of hair loss after a transplant, you'll continue losing the hair that wasn't transplanted and eventually look pretty patchy again.
And then the other thing to bear in mind is that I understand it can be expensive to get cosmetic surgery, which is what this is. And there might be other things that you may want to look into. Not that I would want to take any business away from my friend, Dr. Chestnut, but let's face it, not everybody listening is going to go transfer their pubic hair to their head. So this is where things get interesting when we look into both basic and advanced things that you can do for hair health. As you can see, I have more hair than I know what to do with. It's all over the place. I do a lot of the things that I'm about to describe to you. So let's start here. Many people, and I realize I'm starting with something that might seem almost just as fancy and expensive as a follicular transplant. It's not quite as expensive, but it is kind of up there as far as a more advanced protocol. And that would be stem cells and exosomes. There is one company called Dezawa. Dezawa makes Mew cells. And they have in the past several weeks, actually, fresh leading into this podcast, developed an aesthetic line, meaning they've taken Mew cells, which are specialized regenerative cells that are well recognized for their inherent renewal capacity in exosomes, which serve as extracellular messengers to support better cell communication. And what they've done is they have put those into an actual aesthetic product. Now, you still have to go through a doctor to get these cells. And you can go through a doctor who can actually do a type of micro-needling protocol, like scalp aggravation. And then you can use these cells in combination with exosomes for halting hair regression. And based on the data that I've gone through on their website over the past couple of days, actually encouraging the growth or the generation of new follicles. So this is almost like a hair regeneration protocol. Problem is, it's not available worldwide.