yep james, I have been balding (thinning) for some eyars now and i know its due to candida. most sources - inluding russ himself - will tell u that in males balding is from a hormone dht , but reality isits only half the truth. dht only attaches to the follicles and activates the immune response, immune system sees the follicle as a foreign object and atatcks it - so its actually IFLAMMATION directly killing it. Now i know both candida and mercury cause oerproduction of dht, and that may trigger premature balding (normally dht should spike in ur middle age when man USED TO start losing hair, but now LOTS of guys losing it prematurely) yet i know its not the case with me. When this started i tried every dht blocker possible - propecia, saw palmetto, very good topical bclokers- - they DIDNT WORK at all. Plus i dont have much beard body hair, which "dht men" usually have lots of so not a good candidate. YET I always had big inflammation in the areas i started loosing hair, so much that even pimples woudl break out on my scalp - not to mention scalp hurting, much sebum etc. Ant its not my scalp, the forehead/face too. When I got a more serious candida overgrowth 4 years ago with brain fog and stuff i saw the skin finammation spread all over my nose to my sinuses. (later i found i ahd some abd abcteria in my sinuses). Whenever i killed of some candida, the inflammation on the scalp would lessen - temprrarily getting worse during die off along with gut pain. In other words my skin inflammation is directly connetced to my gut inflammation.
So in my case its probbaly the gut causing the inflammation in my follicles instead of dht. And so whenever I managed to get some candida out my hair would SUDDENLY THICKEN, and whenever candida staretd growing it would start thinning (with inflammation and sebum appearing). Unfotunetely for many reasons my candida case would become chronic, esp after the posioning so i would lose hair anyway. and this wa sthe case here as well. I've witnessed this corellation millions of times.

Oh the infmalmmation in my gut/scalp is also generally corelated with my brain inflammation.

sorry if this is all chaotic, my brains messy now.