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Natural Solutions for PCOS and Hair Loss
Natural Therapies Can Restore Your Scalp Hair
Excessive scalp hair loss is a severe challenge to a woman's self image and her standing in business and society. Although we usually think of balding as a man's problem, women actually make up forty percent of the people in North America experiencing the distress of excessive hair loss. Many women losing significant scalp hair have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Safe, effective, natural therapies that treat the hormone imbalances related to PCOS will also restore your hair to optimal health. I am delighted to offer you these indispensable tools to help you restore your hair and your health.
Women experiencing hair loss lose ground fast in today's world. At work and in her personal life a woman's appearance has much to do with her financial and social success. Men may also prefer not to go bald. But since balding is known to be caused by high levels of testosterone, a bald man may be credited with extra virility. There is no such happy story for balding women. The appearance of thinning scalp hair translates to a significant loss of personal power for women.
The medical community in general treats women's hair loss as a minor health issue. Most physicians have little inclination to address the emotional distress you feel. In many cases physicians treat balding as if it were "only" a vanity issue; they may not recognize hair loss as a red flag pointing to serious metabolic conditions, including PCOS.
The psychological pain of hair loss and its effect on our sense of empowerment is as devastating as any disfiguring disease. If you are a balding woman, your hair loss is a life altering condition with profound consequences for your health. Getting your hands on the wheel and driving yourself toward a solution for hair loss is the first step toward reviving your sense of personal strength and power. If hair loss is part of PCOS, the effort you make to restore your physical health will also renew scalp hair growth.
You need expert help to properly diagnose the cause of your hair loss. Hair loss that could have been merely temporary may become permanent if you have a delayed or incorrect diagnosis. Misdiagnosis is perhaps the most frustrating aspect of hair loss for women. The information I present here will help you identify the cause of your hair loss and ideally lead you and your doctors to proper treatments for your kind of hair loss, sooner rather than later.
Alopecia is the medical term for excessive or abnormal hair loss. There are different kinds of alopecia. What all hair loss has in common, whether it's in men or women, is that it is always a symptom of something else that's gone wrong. Your hair will remain on your head where it belongs if hormone imbalance, disease, or some other condition is not occurring. That condition may be as simple as having a gene that makes you susceptible to male or female pattern baldness. Or it may be as complex as a whole host of diseases. Hair loss may be a symptom of a short-term event such as stress, pregnancy, or a side effect of certain medications. In these situations, hair grows back when the event has passed. Substances including hormones and medication can cause a change in the hair growth patterns. When this happens, growth and shedding occur at the same time. Once the cause is dealt with, hairs go back to their random pattern of growth and shedding, and balding stops.
Alopecia: A Common Problem
Today more women than ever are experiencing hair loss — and the causes are typically quite different that what causes balding in men. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, some 30 million women in the United States are experiencing some degree of distressing scalp hair loss. The most common causes of scalp hair loss in women can include:
• Mineral or vitamin deficiency – zinc, manganese, iron, vitamin B6, biotin
• Essential fatty acid deficiency from a low calorie diet or eating disorders
• Protein deficiency, as is common with vegetarian diets
• Anemia from a low iron diet, poor digestion or any excess blood loss
• Eating disorders, like anorexia, bulimia, even 'yo-yo' dieting; also excess physical exercise
• Drug toxicity, for instance anesthesia with surgery or chemotherapy for cancer
• Many prescription medications have hair loss as a potential 'side' effect, including: bromocriptine, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, amphetamines, anti-cholesterol agents
• Severe infections, either viral or bacterial
• Severe stress, either a sudden extreme event or persistent, long term challenges
• Any hypothalamic or pituitary disorder
• Any liver, thyroid gland, adrenal gland or ovarian disorder, including PCOS
• Any sex steroid imbalance such as low progesterone, estrogen dominance, excess testosterone or insulin
• Starting or stopping any hormone therapy, including birth control pills, menopausal hormone replacement treatment or thyroid hormone replacement
• Any natural event that causes big hormone changes, like child birth, breastfeeding and weaning or menopause
• Perms, hair color, bleach, improper brushing/combing, pulling on the hair
• Autoimmune disease such as lupus or multiple sclerosis
• Allergies to foods, medicines, environmental chemicals or topical drugs
• Recent hepatitis B shot. If you had a Hep B vaccine since this hair loss started, there may be a connection. An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (278:117-8, 1997) links the Hep B vaccine to increased incidence of alopecia in women.
How does an individual woman figure out why she is losing too much of her hair? To understand that, it's important to understand how hair grows.
Hair Grows in Cycles
Scalp hair grows about one-half inch per month. An individual strand of hair will grow for two to six years. Eventually each hair "rests" for a while, and then falls out. Soon after, that follicle will start growing a new strand. A healthy scalp will let about 100 of these cycling hairs fall out every day.
In folks with a genetic predisposition to hair loss, and for women with PCOS, hormones called androgens drive this process. Androgen hormones include testosterone, androsteinedione, and dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Men make and use relatively large amounts of androgens. Appropriate, smaller amounts of androgens are essential to women's health as well.
In those who are genetically susceptible, testosterone activates enzymes produced in the hair cell, which then cause it to be converted into the more potent androgen DHT. DHT then binds with receptors deep within the hair follicle. Eventually, so much DHT builds up that the follicle begins shrinking. It can't produce new hair reliably. Some of the follicles permanently stop producing new hairs. The end result is significant hair loss. The medical term for this condition is androgenic alopecia. Testosterone converts to DHT with the aid of the enzyme Type II 5-alpha reductase, which is held in a hair follicle's oil glands. Actually, it's not the amount of circulating testosterone that is the problem but the amount of DHT clogging up and shrinking scalp follicles, making it impossible for healthy hair to survive.
The process of testosterone converting to DHT, which then harms hair follicles, happens in both men and women. Usually women have a tiny fraction of the amount of testosterone that men make. It seems that for women with hair loss, the actual level of testosterone is not as crucial as are changes in the amount of testosterone she has. A shift in hormone levels triggered by lifestyle or other factors, will cause DHT- triggered hair loss in women. Even when hormone blood levels remain within what doctors consider "normal", they can become high enough to cause a problem for an individual woman. The levels may not rise at all and still be a problem if you are very sensitive to even normal levels of chemicals, including hormones.
Because our hormones operate through a delicately balanced feedback system, with signals sent via the blood between the brain and body tissue, androgens do not need to be raised to trigger a problem. If the so-called female hormones, (which also are essential to men's health) are for any reason shifting in relation to androgens, the resulting imbalance can also cause problems, including hair loss.
Hormones are always changing. Testosterone levels in men drop by as much as 10 percent each decade after age thirty. Women's hormone levels shift with each menstrual cycle, or due to a lack of regular menses, in pregnancies and menopause. Eating disorders, excessive exercise, drugs and environmental toxins can also impact hormone levels.
Keys To Successful Treatment
Treatment of thinning scalp hair must be grounded in changing the habits you may have that support elevated androgens. Diet and exercise are key to maintaining optimal hormone balance. In fact, for women with PCOS, research is clear- there is no drug therapy more effective than proper diet and regular exercise. First, you get your foundational health habits in order; then, specific targeted therapies have the best chance of being effective for you.
Women with PCOS may also have excess coarse dark hair on their face and body. The only way to address the dark, coarse hair that grows out of follicles that have already been altered by excess androgens, is to destroy the follicle with laser or similar therapy. Once a follicle has changed the type of hair it produces, it will not change back. It is crucial to tame the excess androgens and prevent conversion of additional follicles, before investing in a therapy to permanently destroy facial or body hair follicles.
What Causes Women to Lose Too Much Scalp Hair?
For a long time doctors believed that androgenic alopecia was the main cause of balding in both men and women. Now we know that the process that leads to excessive hair loss in women is different. It is called female pattern hair loss.
An important difference between male and female balding is the pattern in which the hair loss occurs. Female pattern hair loss tends to happen as an overall thinning across all areas of the scalp, including the sides and back. Men lose hair from specific spots, like the temple, the crown, that bald spot in the back of the head. Male and female hormone and enzyme receptor sites are also in different areas of the scalp, causing the different gender related loss patterns of hair loss.
A second major difference is that balding in men is usually caused by a man's genetics and his age, but for women, balding can happen at any age.
Lifestyle Choices, Illness and Medical Treatments Cause Hair Loss
Most women with hair loss have multiple features of their lifestyle, diet and health-related events that contribute. Sex hormone fluctuations are responsible for most female hair loss, including those who have PCOS, a recent pregnancy, menopause, hormone replacement therapy or birth control drug side effects. Chemotherapy for cancer, anti-coagulant drugs, iron- deficiency anemia, autoimmune disease can cause hair loss. Any disease involving hormone producing glands, including the thyroid, the adrenal and pituitary glands can trigger balding in women. It is essential for all women to learn the true cause of their hair loss before engaging any particular treatment.
The complex hormonal changes that accompany polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) often result in scalp hair loss. Sometimes hair loss is the first sign that a woman is suffering the metabolic disorder that also causes problems with acne, facial and body hair growth, irregular menstrual cycles and infertility. PCOS is associated with increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers.
Thyroid disorders, anemia, chronic illness or the use of certain medications, particularly any form of hormone replacement therapy or contraceptive prescriptions- should be considered a possible cause of hair loss in women. Autoimmune disorders will result in somewhat different, often less dramatic hair loss known as alopecia areata — an inflammatory condition in which hair comes out in clumps or patches.
Any drop in estrogen levels, as happens after pregnancy, with menopause, or when changing your hormone therapy including birth control pill use, will cause what is called estrogenic alopecia. In contrast to testosterone, estrogen helps scalp hair grow faster and stay on the head longer, resulting in thicker hair. This is the reason women's hair gets fuller during pregnancy when estrogen levels are quite high, then sheds several weeks after the baby is born.
For women who do not have fertility-related hormone changes, estrogen-deficiency scalp hair loss generally starts around menopause. This form of female hair loss can be the first sign of approaching menopause. Sometimes the alopecia won't begin until a few months or even years after menstruation has ended. Not all women get noticeable alopecia after menopause but most have a little thinning.
It's not uncommon to have multiple factors involved in female hair loss. Many women with PCOS have thyroid problems, usually hypothyroidism (low thyroid function). Not only does hypothyroidism contribute to weight problems, it can also contribute to hair thinning. Some women with PCOS have both an excessively high level of testosterone and an under-active thyroid.
If your hair is thinning, you may have heavy metals like lead, mercury or cadmium in your tissues. These poisonous residues saturate our environment. If you have lived near what is, or ever was an industrial or mining site, or lived with someone who works in a polluting industry, you may be contaminated. If you have ever smoked tobacco, you have a lot of cadmium in your body.
The majority of women with androgenic alopecia have diffuse thinning on all areas of the scalp. Some women may have a combination of two pattern types. Androgenic alopecia is caused by a variety of factors tied to the actions of hormones including PCOS, using contraceptives, pregnancy, and menopause. Any blood sugar and insulin hormone imbalance will lead to excess androgens. Women with insulin resistance, from chronic over-eating of refined carbohydrate food, will see more impact from androgens. Insulin resistance is associated with PCOS as well as Type 2 diabetes. Chronic stress that depletes adrenal glands can change the levels of androgens a woman produces as well. This is often the source of problems like infertility, acne and hair thinning in lean, athletic women with PCOS. Heredity may play a role in androgenic alopecia.
Any big event like childbirth or breastfeeding, malnutrition from an alteration in your diet, a severe infection, major surgery, or any extreme stress, can suddenly shift much of the 90 percent or so of your hairs that are in the growing phase or resting phase into the shedding phase. You will see this shift in the rate of hair loss 6 weeks to three month after the stressful event. This is called telogen effluvium. It is possible to lose great bunches of hair daily with full-blown telogen effluvium. Usually this type of hair loss is reversible, if major stressors are avoided. For some women however, telogen effluvium is a mysterious chronic disorder and can persist for months or years, without ever completely identifying all of the triggering factors.
Anagen effluvium happens when the hair follicle cells are so damaged they can not recover or reproduce. This is usually due to toxicity of chemotherapy for cancer. Chemotherapy is meant to destroy rapidly dividing cancer cells. Hair follicles in the growing (anagen) phase, are therefore vulnerable. Anagen effluvium means the hair shaft narrows as a result of damage to the follicle. The shaft breaks off at the narrowing and causes the loss of hair.
Traction alopecia is damage from hairstyles that pull at hair over time (braiding, cornrows, ponytails, extensions). If the condition is detected early enough, you can change your styling practice to be gentler on the follicles, and your hair will regrow.
Hormone contraceptives are a leading cause of distressing hair loss and other symptoms in women. Since the birth control pill first began being used in 1960, oral contraceptives, injections, implants, skin patches and vaginal rings have become the most commonly prescribed forms of birth control.
Unfortunately, many young women are given contraceptive hormones even when they are not sexually active, as a 'treatment' for irregular menses or acne. This is a mistake. This is not a treatment that addresses the underlying cause of problem periods or pimples. Contraceptive hormones will severely complicate a woman's hormone balance and can lead to many health problems, including significant hair loss and worsening acne.
All contraceptive drugs use synthetic hormones to suppress ovulation. These drugs cause your ovaries to stop working; they are in a kind of 'sleep' state. Instead of having your natural cycles result from a dance of signals between your body and your brain, your tissues are subject to synthetic hormones in amounts much larger than your body normally makes. There are many long and short -term consequences to ovarian suppression. Most women experience side effects using contraceptive drugs, including hair loss either during or several weeks or months after stopping the drug.
An article appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (278:117-8, 1997) linking the Hepatitis B vaccine to increased incidence of balding in women.
Diagnostic Testing
In order to successfully treat hair loss, it is essential to understand why your hair follicles are not healthy. There are diagnostic tests that may help identify the underlying biochemistry that is contributing to your excess hair loss. However, many women with significant chemical imbalances related to their hair loss will find that these test results are within the "normal" range. That's because in many cases hair loss represents a stage of ill-health that is an early phase of a disease that will eventually fully develop. The lifestyle and dietary habits that eventually cause Type 2 diabetes and heart disease will also cause scalp hair thinning and facial hair coarsening in young women. It is usually many years before these same women have diagnostic tests that reveal they are diabetic or have coronary artery disease. Many of these women have undiagnosed PCOS.
Selective Sensitivity is the underlying problem
Another reason why diagnostic tests may be confusing is because of something called 'selective sensitivity' or 'selective resistance'. It turns out that some body cells are more sensitive than others to the same amounts of hormone. A major complicating factor for some women is that while her muscle and fat may be insulin resistant, other types of organ cells are not. The pituitary, ovaries, and adrenal glands of an insulin resistant woman are stimulated by higher levels of insulin than is desirable, which causes for instance elevated testosterone. The high levels of androgens in turn increase risk for heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers.
Despite these possible difficulties, it is important to do our best to determine what is and isn't the cause of a major symptom like persistent excessive hair loss. Diagnostic tests that can help identify the source of your metabolic imbalance are:
• The hair pull test is a simple diagnostic test in which the physician lightly pulls a small amount of hair (approx. 100 simultaneously) in order to determine if there is excessive loss. Normal range is zero to three hairs per pull.
• Hormone levels: Dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, androstenedione, prolactin, sex hormone binding globulin, follicular stimulating hormone, and luteinizing hormone. It is ideal to sample for FSH and LH on day 19 to 21 of your menstrual cycle, if those days can be identified.
• Fasting blood glucose and insulin levels as well as cholesterol and triglyceride levels
• A complete blood count plus serum iron, ferritin and total iron binding capacity
• Thyroid stimulating hormone plus a thyroid function panel including T3, T4, and T3 % uptake
• VDRL to screen for syphilis
• A scalp biopsy should be done before choosing surgical transplant
• Densitometry, a magnification device, used check for shrinking of the hair shaft.
Conventional Medical Treatments For Hair Loss
You may be very interested in drug therapies or surgery to address the profound distress of excessive hair loss. It is simply human nature to hope for a simple pill or procedure that will permanently free us from our problems. Unfortunately drugs never actually provide a simple solution. Once you swallow a chemical, it is delivered all over your body; it affects your whole body. We cannot control drugs so they have only the effects we want- there are always side effects that are more or less problematic. Using drug therapy means trading one problem for some others. Sometimes this is exactly the right thing to do. Other times it is a personal disaster. Most drugs will act on all your tissues there is a danger of side effects that further damage your health. Topical treatments applied directly to the scalp use the lowest doses, and are the least harmful drug choices.
You will enjoy the best results when you begin any treatment as soon as possible after hair loss begins. Stopping the adverse effects of androgens means you can prevent further hair loss. And you can support regrowth from the follicles that were dormant still healthy. Depending on how the agent you choose works, stopping treatment will result in the hair loss resuming, unless you have also made other changes in your lifestyle that keep androgens at a level that is healthy and not harmful to you.
Below you will find a list of treatments currently being used to treat hair loss in women. Some of these drugs have not been approved by the FDA for this particular application, however they have all been approved for other applications and are used "off label" to treat hair loss. Currently 2% topical Minoxidil is the only FDA approved treatment specifically for female pattern hair loss.
The effectiveness of these agents and methods will vary from woman to woman, but many women have found that using these treatments has made a positive difference in the character of their hair and their positive self-esteem. As always, treatments have the best chance of being effective if they are geared to the cause of the hair loss as well as to triggering hair growth.
Estrogen and progesterone as hormone replacement therapy (HRT), typically prescribed for women undergoing menopause for any reason, is probably the most common systemic form of treatment for androgenic alopecia in women.
Oral contraceptives will decrease the production of ovarian androgens, and thus can be used to treat women's androgenic alopecia. There are substantial reasons to avoid the use of either synthetic or bio-identical hormone treatments for your hair loss. Some birth control pills actually contribute to hair loss by triggering it or increasing it once it's been triggered by something else. Any individual woman may have a selective sensitivity to any hormone combination- what is a low androgen effect formula for one woman may be a high androgen effect for another.
I am no longer able to recommend the use of birth control pills or other hormone-based contraception to young women. Decades of evidence suggest there are plenty of known, and possibly as yet unknown health risks associated with the use of ANY from of reproductive hormones, either prescription or over-the-counter forms. It is clear that the benefits of hormonal contraceptives are accompanied by significant risks, including making it much more likely that a woman will experience hormone imbalances that lead to a long list of negative effects. Hormone replacement puts you are risk for:
• Depression or other mood disorders; decreased libido
• Migraines and headaches
• Breast lumps, tenderness and enlargement
• Vaginal bleeding between periods
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• High cholesterol
• Blood clot in the leg, felt as: pain in the calf; leg cramps; leg or foot swelling
• Blood clot in the lung, felt as: shortness of breath; sharp chest pain; coughing up blood
• Heart attack, felt as: chest pain or heaviness
• Sudden loss of vision or vision changes, which can be a sign of a blood clot in the eye
• Cerebral vascular accident (a stroke): impaired vision or speech; weakness or numbness in a limb; severe headache
• Liver damage, seen as: yellow eyes or skin; dark urine; abdominal pain
• Allergic reaction: rash; hives; itching; swelling; difficulty breathing or swallowing
• Acne
• Bloating, nausea and vomiting
• Changes in your eyes that make it more difficult to wear contact lenses
There are of course individual circumstances that may make the choice to use hormone contraceptives something a woman may choose. If you chose a hormone prescription for any reason, you should be sure to use only low-androgen content methods. If you have a strong predisposition for genetic hair loss, insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease or any female organ cancer in your family I strongly recommend the use of another non-hormonal form of birth control.
Below is a list of birth control pills ranging from lowest androgen index to highest:
Desogen, Ortho-Cept, Ortho-Cyclen, Ortho Tri-Cyclen, Micronor, Nor-Q D, Ovcon-35, Brevicon/Modicon, Ortho Norvum 7/7/7, Ortho Novum 10-11, Tri-Norinyl, Norinyl and Ortho 1/35, Demulen 1/35, Triphasil/Tri-Levien, Nordette, Lo/Ovral, Ovrette, Ovral, Loestrin1/20, Loestrin 1.5/30.
The following hormonal contraceptives have a significant potential of causing hair loss or making it worse:
Progestin implants, such as Norplant, are small rods surgically implanted under your skin. The rods release a continuous dose of progestin to prevent ovarian function.
Progestin injections, such as Depo-Provera, are given into the muscles of the upper arm or buttocks.
The skin patch (Ortho Evra) is pasted onto your shoulder, buttocks, or other location. It releases progestin and estrogen continuously to prevent your ovaries from producing normal cycles.
The best of the not-so-great:
The vaginal ring (NuvaRing) is a flexible ring that is inserted into the vagina. This method releases the lowest amounts of progestin and estrogen.
Minoxidil 2% Topical Treatment - Minoxidil seems to be more effective for women than men, for increasing scalp hair growth. The manufacturers of minoxidil recommend women use 2% minoxidil. There is a 5% solution available that has been tested and found safe enough for men. Because the makers of minoxidil have not invested in the expense of gaining FDA approval for promoting 5% minoxidil for use by women, it must be prescribed and used under a physician's supervision. Small clinical trials on 5% minoxidil for women show that the 5% solution is in fact more effective in both retaining and regrowing hair than the 2 % solution.
Spironolactone (Aldactone) is a potassium-sparing diuretic used to treat high blood pressure and swelling. Spironolactone slows the production of androgens in the adrenal glands and ovaries. It prevents DHT from binding to receptor sites in the hair follicles.
Cimetidine (Tagamet) is a histamine blocker, approved to treat digestive tract ulcers. It prevents the stomach from producing digestive enzymes. Cimetidine also has been shown to block DHT from binding to hair follicle receptor sites.
Cyproterone acetate is used to reduce sexual aggression in men. Cyproterone acetate blocks DHT at hair follicle receptors. It has significant toxicity and long term side effects and is not available in the US.
Ketoconazole is a prescription topical treatment. It is primarily used as an antimicrobial for treating skin fungus. It suppresses production of androgens by adrenal glands, testicles and ovaries. Nizoral shampoo contains 2% ketoconazole. There is an over-the-counter version available. It has 1% active ingredient and is not as effective as prescription strength.
Finasteride is a drug that inhibits the enzyme 5-alpha reductase, an enzyme that deactivates DHT. It is sold as Proscar to treat prostate enlargement in men. Sold as Propecia it is approved by the FDA for male balding. Women should not take it if they are pregnant or might become pregnant because of the risk of feminization effects on a male fetus.
Surgical Implants
Since hair restoration surgery is an option for the vast majority of the balding men, women may want to consider it. However, the type of hair loss most women suffer from makes hair transplants a bad idea.
Few women have the type of hair loss that make them good candidates for a surgical solution. Most men lose hair in well-defined areas, for instance the receding forehead or the classic round spot on the top of the skull. Little clumps or plugs of hair are removed from areas where healthy follicles are stable and plentiful, and these are transplanted to other areas of the head. Women more often experience an overall thinning across their whole scalp, including the sides and back. Most women have few reliably stable donor sites. Offering to transplant hair from unstable donor sites is medically unethical and women must not allow their distress about balding to get in the way of a cool- eyed look at the rationale behind treatment options offered.
Are any women good candidates for hair transplant? Yes, some. A small percentage, 2% to 5% of women will have the type of hair loss that will benefit from this type of procedure. They are:
• Women who have suffered hair loss due to non-hormonal causes, like traction alopecia.
• Women who have scalp scars from some kind of wound or cosmetic surgery and want to repair hair loss around the incision or injury sites.
• Women who have healthy and stable donor sites along with balding in a distinct pattern, like a receding hairline or thinning on the very top of the head.
Natural Remedies for Restoring Your Scalp Hair
Food! Your #1 therapy for regaining healthy hair. You must eat a therapeutic diet if you want to be successful with natural therapies to address your health concerns. We like nutritional supplements and herbs largely because they are gently effective, with rare to no side effects. The trade off is that because these are specifically not ferocious chemicals that will over power your natural processes, you have to support the chemical correction natural medicines offer by making your diet and exercise habits only helpful, and not part of the problem.
#1 A therapeutic diet that lowers excess testosterone is one that strictly controls insulin. Insulin has the effect of making testosterone have stronger impact on your cells. To minimize insulin effects you have to minimize your carbohydrate intake. Carbohydrate foods are all plant foods. Complex carbohydrates are whole foods – fresh fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts and seeds. All refined sweeteners, including sugar of all types, honey, syrups, fruit juice concentrates, malts etc. are considered simple carbohydrates. Refined grains, for instance all flour products like breads, crackers, baked goods and pasta, white rice, manufactured cereals, chips and flat breads, are the kind of simple carbohydrate that acts like sugar in your blood stream within minutes of swallowing. All of these items will elevate your blood glucose and insulin levels, which leads to excess testosterone effect on your hair follicles.
The only carbohydrate foods essential to human health are fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds. Whole grains can be used in portion sizes appropriate to your muscle mass and activity level. If you have extra fat on you, you have demonstrated to yourself you are taking in more energy than you are using, and storing it as fat. The only way you will signal yourself to lose that fat is to reduce the amount of fuel you take in to less than your muscles demand. Cutting out grains will reduce your unnecessary carbohydrate intake; you will get all the fiber plus vitamins and minerals you need by eating the right amounts – a minimum of 2 cups daily for most people- of fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Grains- especially those containing gluten, are also notorious for allergic responses and for creating cravings and addictive attachments to certain foods.
To minimize the effect of insulin and thus testosterone on your system, you have to eliminate all sweets, all forms of simple sugars and refined flours. Alcohol is also a refined carbohydrate. Only very well muscled and active athletes can eat starchy carbohydrate foods and not over-produce insulin and thus testosterone. Most women will have to reduce their carbohydrate intake to only that which they get from two-plus cups of fresh or frozen vegetables daily and 2 or 3 pieces of fresh fruit daily.
Insulin resistance, the inability to efficiently utilize the hormone insulin, is thought to be a primary cause of polycystic ovary syndrome. Although not every woman with PCOS has an insulin problem, the majority probably do. Lean women with PCOS are usually making their excess androgens in relation to chronic stress and its effect on their adrenal glands.
Any woman who is at all over-weight will have more insulin and thus more androgen effect than she needs for optimal health. Therefore, anything that helps to normalize insulin is worth considering. In addition to diet changes, here are some natural medicines worth considering:
N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) A recent study evaluated the effect of n-acetyl cysteine (NAC) on insulin secretion and insulin resistance in 6 lean and 31 obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome. They took 1.8 grams of NAC daily for 5-6 weeks. A dose of 3 grams per day was arbitrarily chosen for the women who were significantly obese. Six of the 31 obese patients were treated with placebo. Those treated with NAC had a reduction of their insulin resistance and a significant fall in testosterone levels. Although this is a small study, it suggests that NAC can play a role in improving your insulin sensitivity. Improved insulin sensitivity is crucial to reversing PCOS, including the aspect of it that includes scalp hair thinning.
N- acetyl cystiene 600 mg twice daily to start. Some women may go as high as 1,800 – 3,000 milligrams daily but the lower dose is often sufficient.
NAC is considered safe for adult women. High doses of NAC may cause some nausea or gastrointestinal problems for a few people. Although NAC has not been shown to have any adverse effect on the fetus, you should check with your doctor before taking NAC if you are pregnant. Do not take NAC while also taking nitroglycerin. Before taking NAC in combination with metformin, check with your prescriber. If you are taking a substantial dose of NAC, you may need to reduce the dosage of metformin.
Any sex hormone imbalance will potentially contribute to scalp hair thinning. Most often the problem is rooted in too much effect from androgen hormones. There are a number of causes that underlie excess androgen impact. One is the persistence of "strong" testosterone, the result of some problem with the conversion of testosterone to a more powerful version called dihydrotestosterone or DHT. Reducing testosterone will reduce the hormone available to convert to DHT.
Saw palmetto (serenoa repens) is a plant medicine that inhibits the action of testosterone, the hormone primarily responsible for female hair loss and hirsutism. Several studies have shown that saw palmetto is as effective as the drug finasteride in men. Every women is unique, so the amount and form of saw palmetto you need won't necessarily be the same as for someone else. As a general guideline, a common dose for men is 320 mg. of extract per day, standardized to at least 85-95% fatty acids with a guaranteed minimum of 0.2-0.4% sterols. ("Standardized" means you get the same amount of active ingredients every time). You may decide to start with a somewhat lower dose.
Because of the alternating growth and rest cycles of hair growth, plan to take saw palmetto for at least six weeks before expecting to see any obvious any effect. If improvement is noted, it is recommended that you take saw palmetto continuously. As with many other herbs, the quality of commercial saw palmetto products may vary widely. For this reason, it is best to purchase a saw palmetto product that has been evaluated by an independent lab. I recommend Vital Nutrients Saw Palmetto, Pygeum and Nettles combination.
Saw palmetto is essentially nontoxic. In clinical trials, it has shown little to no adverse effects. For example, in a 3-year study, only 34 of the 435 participants complained of side effects, and these were primarily only of the usual nonspecific variety seen with all medications, such as mild gastrointestinal distress.
Palmetto berry constituents have alpha-adrenergic blocking activity that may alter the effects of these medications: prazosin, terazosin, doxazosin mesylate, tamsulosin.
It may have an additive effect if taken with anti-androgen drugs that reduce the levels of male sex hormones, such as finasteride (Prosca, Propecia) or flutamide (Eulexin).
In theory, it could interfere with birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy in women. Safety for pregnant or nursing women, or those with severe kidney or liver disease, has not been established.
I do not recommend using saw palmetto or any other anti-androgen treatment unless you simultaneously support estrogen metabolism with diindolylmethane. Anti-androgen therapy will increase the conversion of testosterone to estrogens; excess estrogen levels increase your risk for breast and uterine cancer, especially when you are not ovulating regularly.
Indoplex (diindolylmethane) This is from cabbage- family plants: in concentrated doses it helps the liver shift the estrogen balance so you have an abundance of the protective types of estrogen and lower levels of the stronger estrogens that cause all unpleasant "side-effects" especially during the pre-menstrual week, as well as increase risk for breast and uterine cancer.
Spearmint tea (mentha spicata) 2 cups daily. A 2009 study by the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Eastbourne District General Hospital, U.K. followed up a previous Turkish study that suggested drinking spearmint tea reduced excess hair growth (an aspect of hirsutism, which also includes scalp hair loss) in women with PCOS. Unfortunately, both of these studies tested the tea therapy for a month or less, so there was no objectively measurable reduction in hair growth. To see that change a therapy must be used a minimum of 6 months, based on the nature of hair growth patterns. However, it was demonstrated and confirmed that spearmint did significantly reduce blood levels of testosterone as well as create a more favorable ration between follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone, both very positive indications this good tasting herb is an important ally for you.
Nutrient deficiencies have been related to all chronic disease states, including mood disorders and serious mental illness. Our food supply is less nutrient-rich than it was in our grandparents time, as a result of conventional farming practices, harvesting, transport and storage issues as well as cooking techniques- and that's all before you even decide what to have for lunch! Stress for any reason interferes with your ability to digest, further reducing the capacity of your diet to provide all the raw material your system needs to function optimally.
B-vitamin deficiencies are very common. Some people, especially people who are blood type A, do not absorb B vitamins very well from food. A vegetarian diet, or any nutrient-poor diet will result in B vitamin deficiencies. Chronic stress will interfere with digestion to a degree that can lead to vitamin losses as well. In particular a vitamin in the B family called biotin is required for hair and nail growth.
Biotin is crucial for proper hair and nail growth. 5-8 milligrams of biotin daily biotin can be very effective in restoring head-hair growth, with no known side-effects. Some specialty shampoos feature biotin for this reason. Topical application through shampoo does not deliver biotin to the follicle where it needs to be available to develop optimal hair strength. You should use biotin for 6 to 8 months to be able to see it's effect on your hair.
If there is reason to suspect heavy metal toxicity as a cause of thinning hair, a gentle chelation program to rid your tissues of toxic metals is in order. The Greek word "chelare" means "to bind." Chelation means binding one substance to another. An easy and effective protocol is:
• 8 grams daily of Vitamin C in 4 divided doses to help clear toxins out of the fat cells, where they preferentially "hide out."
• 2 tablespoons daily of spirulina powder in pineapple or cherry juice in 2 divided doses. This edible form of algae is extremely effective at binding to the non-nutritive metals that end up in the human body from the environment. The bound up metal will be excreted safely through your urine and fecal matter.
• Make sure your diet includes lots of dark leafy greens, fresh fruit and organic grains but no sugar, dairy, fried foods, alcohol, caffeine or red meat for 4-6 weeks. Tofu, and lean, clean organically raised beef, bison or poultry and wild-caught ocean fish is fine.
• At least 8 large glasses of pure water daily
Frequent shampooing is advised if you have an oily scalp with thinning hair. These surface oils contain high levels of testosterone, which can re-renter the skin and affect the hair follicle. Nioxxin hair products have been useful to some women with hair loss. I recommend a gentle, organic-ingredient shampoo for daily use.
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A New Jersey State Senate bill recently introduced would abolish the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH), taking implementation of low and moderate income housing standards from the state and putting it in the hands of municipalities. It's about time.
COAH came into existence in the late 1970′s as a result of the New Jersey Supreme Court's Mt. Laurel Decision, which basically said that municipalities cannot zone against low and moderate-income housing and must supply affordable housing. COAH set quotas for each of the state's 567 (now 566) municipalities.
The quota system was unfair to many municipalities, setting unrealistically high numbers for some towns. Here in Cape May County, Middle Township is still required to offer 932 more affordable units by 2018 and Upper Township still owes over 500. It's unrealistic and puts a heavy burden on taxpayers, who must fund new schools and services to meet the demand of so many new residences.
Senate Bill S1, sponsored by Raymond Lesniak and Christopher Bateman, and its companion State Assembly bill A2057, would abolish COAH. It would also do away with State-imposed calculations of affordable housing needs. Instead, it would permit municipalities to determine their own needs. The State Planning Commission would assist towns in facilitating opportunities for affordable housing.
The bill would require municipalities to re-examine their master plan and adopt an ordinance that provides an opportunity for an appropriate variety and choice of housing. They must show that they have complied with their obligations under the Fair Housing Act. Any municipality not enacting ordinances by December 31, 2011, would be required to have any developers set aside 20% of their project for low or moderate or work force housing.
What does all this mean? COAH and its assigned numbers of affordable housing units will be put to rest. But municipalities aren't off the hook. They must still offer affordable housing, but on their own terms, not Trenton's.
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Some people take herbs like saw palmetto for an enlarged prostate. Although there's some evidence that these herbs can relieve BPH symptoms, many studies haven't found a benefit. Talk to your doctor before taking any herbal remedy, because they can cause side effects.
Prostate enlargement isn't usually serious, but it can have a serious impact on your way of life, especially when you're always going to the bathroom. Remember that BPH is treatable. Work with your doctor to find the treatment that works best for you. If you've been caring for your symptoms for 2 months and not finding any relief, or you're having more serious symptoms like you're not urinating at all, or you have a fever or pain in your back or abdomen, call your doctor as soon as possible.


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Welcome to The WATER Institute's Salmon Safe Pesticide Awareness Campaign Guide. We have developed a Sonoma County campaign to educate pesticide vendors and consumers about the impacts of pesticides on water quality, salmonid and human health. A court ruling between Washington Toxics Coalition and the Environmental Protection Agency requires vendors to post warning signs on all products containing seven pesticides that pose threats to salmonids (for more information about this case go to www.watoxics.org). We want to support retailers in upholding this ruling by posting the required hazard signs and invite them to consider selling less harmful alternatives . We need your help to do this.
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I am a social scientist interested in a variety of topics including: environmental risks from hazards, community responses to technological hazards, environmental inequities, environment and health, geography of health, noxious facility siting, and methodology.
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Refereed Journals
Deacon, L., Baxter, J. and Buzzelli, M. (submitted) 'Environmental Equity: A discourse analysis of Canada's mainstream and alternative news media' Local Environment
Laferriere, K., Crighton, E., Baxter, J., Lemyre, L., Masuda, J. and Ursitti, F. (submitted) 'Environment health risks in Ontario, Canada: Results of a survey on concerns and protective actions of new mothers' Health, Risk & Society
Walker, C., Baxter, J. and Ouellette, D. (in press) 'Beyond rhetoric to understanding asymmetrical impacts of wind turbine conflict in two Ontario, Canada communities' Environment and Planning A
Mkandawire, P., Luginaah, I. and Baxter, J. (in press) 'Growing up an orphan: Vulnerability of adolescent girls to HIV in Malawi' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Baxter, J., Morzaria, R., and Hirsch, R. 2013 'A case-control study of support/opposition to wind turbines: Perceptions of health risk, economic benefits, and community conflict' Energy Policy 61: 931-943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.050
Crighton E., Brown, C., Baxter, J., Lemyre, L., Masuda, J. and Ursitti, F. 2013 'Perceptions and experiences of environmental health risks among new mothers: A qualitative study in Ontario, Canada' Health Risk and Society 15(4): 295-312
Deacon, L. and Baxter, J. 2013 'No Opportunity to Say No: A case study of procedural environmental injustice in Canada' Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 56(5): 607-23
Larock, S. and Baxter, J. 2013 'Local facility hazard risk controversy and non-local hazard risk perception' Journal of Risk Research 16(6): 713-732
Gibson-Wood, H., Wakefield, S., Vanderlinden, L., Bienefeld, M., Cole, D., Baxter, J. and Jermyn, L. 2012 "A drop of water in the pool": information and engagement of linguistic communities around a municipal pesticide bylaw to protect the public's health' Critical Public Health 22(3): 341-53
Atari, O., Luginaah, I. and Baxter, J. 2011 ' "This is the mess that we are living in'': residents everyday life experiences of living in a stigmatized community' GeoJournal 76(5): 483-500
Hirsch, R. and Baxter, J. 2011 'Context, cultural bias, and health risk perception: The 'everyday' nature of pesticide policy preferences in London, Calgary, and Halifax' Risk Analysis 31(5): 874-65
Wakefield, S. and Baxter, J. 2010 'Linking health inequality and environmental justice: Articulating a precautionary framework for research and action' Environmental Justice 3(3): 95-102
Masuda, J., Baxter, J. and Poland, B. 2010 'Reaching for environmental health justice: Canadian experiences for a comprehensive research, policy and advocacy agenda in health promotion' Health Promotion International 25(4): 453-463
Hirsch, R., Baxter, J. and Brown, C. 2010 'The importance of skillful community leaders, Understanding municipal pesticide policy change in Calgary and Halifax' Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53(6): 743-757
Hirsch, R. and Baxter, J. 2009 'The look of the lawn: Pesticide policy-preference and health risk perception in context' Environment and Planning C 27(3), 468-490
Baxter, J. 2009 'Risk Perception: A Quantitative Investigation of the Insider/Outsider Dimension of Cultural Theory and Place' Journal of Risk Research 12(6): 771-91
Baxter, J. 2006 'Place impacts of technological hazards: A case study of community conflict as outcome' Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 49(3): 337-60
Baxter, J. 2005 'Understanding "Low Concern" Near the Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility at Swan Hills AB' (peer reviewed) Conference Proceedings, Waste: The Social Context, Edmonton: May 11-14.
Baxter, J. and Greenlaw, K. 2005 'Revisiting cultural theory of risk: Explaining perceptions of technological environmental hazards using comparative analysis' Canadian Geographer 49(1): 61-80.
Chapters in Books
Baxter, J. 2011 'Reassessing the voluntary facility siting processes for a hazardous waste facility in Alberta, Canada 15 years later' in Facility Siting in the Asia-Pacific: Perspectives on Knowledge Production and Application ed T. Fung, H. Lesbirel and K. Lam (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press)
Baxter, J. 2010 'Case Studies' in Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography (3rd Ed.) ed I. Hay (London: Oxford University Press)
Deacon, L. and Baxter, J. 2009 'Framing Environmental Inequity in Canada: A Content Analysis of Daily Print News Media' in Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada ed J. Agyeman and R. Haluza-DeLay (Vancouver: UBC Press)
Baxter, J. 2009 'Interviewing' in Encyclopedia of Geography ed B. Warf (Newbury Park: Sage)
Baxter, J. 2009 'Content Analysis' in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography ed R. Kitchin and N. Thrift, N (Oxford: Elsevier) 1: 275-280
Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles
|PhD Students
|D. Babicki (Co-tutelle)
|A. Manning
|M. McMorris
|Y. Rollins
|Comparative Analysis of Waste Management Policy
|C. Walker
|Wind Turbine Risks and Politics in Canada
|L. Deacon
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I have created an ugly something resembling a fly.
An accurate picture of xenosis:
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I seem to be mostly making demons, angels and fairies.... And please, don't give me a freudian answer, please, I have enough these days.
the first thing i made ended up basically being a pelvis
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein
- Richard Dawkins.If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base designs of planes on science, they fly. If you base the designs of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works. Bitches.
Confirming this a a cool little app/program/whatever.


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6NOV: The Apocolypse Cometh
Regardless of who wins, roughly half the nation will be wailing about the end of days being nigh.
We needed a thread for election chatter. And I smiled broadly and spoketh, "Let there be thread!".
For our first entry, I have a nicely snarky article about last night's debate. I was far more interested in DDO last night, to be honest, so I'll have to trust impressions of the lamestream media. Anyhoo, enjoy:
edit- I tested the link just for giggles and it puked. Don't see the difference, but this link appears to work:
The Euros are deeply disappointed by the debate. Looks like I should have watched it after all. ;)
Haha on the flip flops comment. :)
I watched most of the debate, and got tired of it at the end. Mitt contradicted himself more than I've ever I seen in a campaign before, and Obama never called him out on it except for cutting taxes by $5M. The thing is if someone keeps changing their positions and say different things to different people, the campaign becomes nothing of substance, and just about appearance. Color me sickened (i.e. green)…
Thrasher, I guess you will overlook your man's "green" investments that Romney referred to. I think the facts speak for themselves. Most of this money went right back to people who contributed to Obama's campaign. Shameful.
I watched maybe 15 minutes of the debate. I truly loathe both of them. If only Ron Paul had had the speaking ability of either of these hucksters.
Where did you get that data. From a completely unbiased source, I presume?
What I read from others, it's only a few companies of the many that were funded that have failed. What's the truth?
I certainly won't trust lists like this unless I verify them myself.
I certainty won't believe anything coming out of the Romney campaign nor the RNC nor Faux news. All have poor records on the truth. That's why I want the source quoted above.
Thrasher, its easy. Type FAILED GREEN ENERGY VENTURES FUNDED BY OBAMA into your browsers amd click.
You won't find anything on liberal sites though. It's like none of it exists, unreal.
Obama has been helping rich people get richer. Hypocrisy abounds.
One "green company" that managed to survive did so by closing their plant in the US (after taking all that free money)while still keeping the other one overseas running. Half a billion dollars to Fisker.
Fact-check: Half of fed-funded green companies bankrupt?
The Financing Force Behind Americas Clean Energy Economy
The whole Solyndra debacle (and the 38 studios one) do well to illustrate in which situations government investment in economic development is wholly unhelpful and perhaps rather unwise.
The short of it is that this sort of economic development put way too much towards the wrong kinds of ventures and was made with far too little insight. They're two of the absolute worst kinds of products to second guess the market and investors on, the potential secondary benefits that could justify such government spending were few compared to other possibilities, and the individual costs compared to other comparable projects in terms of economic development/job creation were very high.
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In general, this sort of investment should not be made to expand production of an existing technology or to incentive production of a commodity or production of a product that while novel represents no new tangible technological development - and most especially not when any single project requires many times the cost of a single fundamental research grant.
Solyndra for example had developed their technology well before they requested and were granted the large loans in question. The technological development which I'd argue would offer significant cause for government investment had already been done. The federal aid did not pay to develop the technology but rather to build a factory that the market determined the technology offered insufficient cause to justify. Nor was this a small expense compared to other potential job creation projects such as infrastructure projects - given that the research and development had already be done I would say these things could be argued to be of comparable technological/scientific interest to the government at that point.
After research and development what they were proposing to produce was essentially a commodity item directly comparable in terms of things like either cost per kwhr or cost per kwhr per square unit space. As such whether or not the production of those panels is a sound and profitable venture is a question of whether they can be produced at costs competitive with the existing market or offer significantly higher power production-area densities than their competitors (in instances where the limiting factor of adoption/use is the cost/availibility of space to put hem). For all their flaws, this is one of those things that the market and investors are particularly well equipped to consider and is the inherently obvious result of not-too-complex calculation.
So any venture of this nature which is unable to find private backing should be viewed as highly likely to either be of extremely high risk or to have a risk/reward which is too challenging to calculate in a reliable manner. This means that projects which, unlike fundamental scientific research, do not pose inherent difficulty in estimating what commercial value they may produce are far more likely to fall into the first category. So a project that would produce solar panels or a video game - which both have relatively estimable values per unit - should be looked at as having been rejected by investors because it was perceived it could not profitably compete for one reason or another.
Thus, any such project should be viewed as inherently likely to fail as a profitable venture. For such a project to be worth offering a government-backed loan or a grant it must offer some benefit besides its potential as a profitable business because the market has determined this is unlikely to be true. Since this determination is something the market, for all its flaws, is particulary well suited to make then the benefit should likely be something for which the market is particularly ill-suited to judge.
Fundamental scientific research - for which the prospects of near-term profitable developments can be extremely difficult to predict - are perhaps the clearest example of this. Though the general long term benefit to society and industry of scientific advancement is an obvious lesson of history, the profit potential of any individual element of research is often unpredictable and almost as often hard guess at even years after the fact. In that case the market is ill suited to serve as an investment base to fund scientific discovery while the potential benefit taxpayer and industry does give an incentive for government investment.
Projects which center around or require some element of fundamental scientific research in order to be developed should also be included in this. This includes such general technologies as nanotechnology and, in the past, computer and information technologies. These are areas where highly profitable products may already be envisaged but the development of which is hindered by a lack of scientific and engineering knowledge to make them feasible. In these cases I would suggest something akin to a modified version of some of the the DARPA cooperative grants of a couple decades ago. That is to say that such projects should be required to meet research and development milestones for continued funding, that they be subject to auditing/oversight, that fundamental scientific research be published, and that the awardees retain ownership on patents under some conditions. Ownership could be subject to requirements that the patent be used primarily within the United States and/or that if the patent is profitable the awardee must pay a small portion until such time as that amount totals the initial grant or the patent and any derivatives are no longer profitable.
Additionally it may be determined that investment in or subsidization of general economic development is desirable in and of itself. This could be particularly true in times where the capitol market is unusually tight. Compared to times when the financial market is more liquid, there are more ventures which fail to obtain start-up capitol because they can not afford the increased cost of borrowing yet do not represent an unusually high risk of failure or because the basis of risk assessment has become more conservative. At such points it does make sense for there to be a form of credit for those ventures which, only in light of tighter liquidity or more risk averse investors, fall just shy of being considered acceptable investments. It could also be the case that it may be beneficial to always offer some small level of development aid to reduce the barriers to market entry.
In light of the poor track record of the government as an investor and the potential for abuse, such development subsidies should be subject to strict independent financial oversight and limited to small loans with any malfeasance of either end being severely punished. In this way one would maximize the risks to those who would engage in fraud either inside or outside the system and collusion of both; it would simultaneously minimize the potential reward for those considering such fraud. Working under the assumption that fraud and - to a greater extent - mismanagement would still be inevitable to some degree the limitations on individual investment amounts would minimize the losses from those incidents you could not prevent beforehand.
In any case though the value of the program on a whole must be honestly argued to be speculative and the determination of acceptable costs tempered by the understanding that most individual investments will be a loss. Any calculable return on investment from economic development must be considered in terms of increased spending while under loan funding and with a realistic (likely small) percentage of those ventures continuing profitably afterwards. Any other potential merits that could be argued must be presented honestly as more philosophical. This is true even in the case of scientific-research focused loans/grants. While the benefit should be obvious from an historical frame of reference, how much to invest must be made with the clear and honest understanding that profitable returns even to the larger society are incredibly difficult to predict.
Both Solyndra and 38 Studios are excellent examples of the kinds of things the government should be the least interested in spending money on. In terms of economic development they represented high risks and large single expenditures compared to other comparably stimulative investments. In terms of secondary benefits that the market is not well equipped to evaluate, they represented clearly inferior choices to projects such as fundamental research and infrastructure.
I would hope examples like this highlight the need for independent oversight as well as strict rules governing conflict of interest and elligibility for any of these economic development programs. I would rather that second lesson learned from this is not that the government can't do things for the economy but instead that the government shouldn't second guess the kinds of determinations the market is especially good at making and recognize its roll in those things the market is particularly ill equipped to value. There's a reason that the government handles things like law enforcement while the market usually does a good job regulating the production levels of commodities. The principles that make the roles of each in those situations obvious should not be entirely ignored in other questions of governance and market economics.
Prediction: Obama wins even though Romney gets more votes (thanks to some red states that are VERY red). Congress divides even more because of this and goes right over the "fiscal cliff". Apocalypse comes.
So yeah, I agree with DTE. ;)
I hate how even when we have clear factual examples of mistakes with definite numbers attached to them that a politician could cite against their opponent, they still can't even do that honestly. Solyndra was a mistake and a pretty stupid one - as I imagine the other 2 bankrupt companies who received loans under these programs may also prove to be. Those failures are pretty damning without having to conflate the ammount spent on loan gaurantees to companies such as solyndra with the total for the far broader energy spending section of the stimulus. Nor is it nescessary to misrepresent loan guarantees as tax breaks.
Of the 90 billion in energy spending erroneously referred to as tax breaks for green energy and alternatively to money for green jobs, it actually broke down as follows:
$29 billion for energy efficiency, including $5 billion for the weatherization of
low-income homes;
$10 billion to modernize the nation's electric grid;
$6 billion for domestic manufacturing of advanced batteries and other components
of alternative vehicles and fuel technology;
$18 billion for transit projects, including high-speed rail;
$3 billion for researching and developing clean-coal technology;
$3 billion for job training;
$2 billion in manufacturing tax credits.
$26 billion in loan guarantees securing private loans
The loan guarantees (this is co-signing a loan not a direct loan from the government) were granted to 28 companies if we include loans approved from all 3 loan programs by the Obama administration. Of those 26 companies, 3 have failed - Solyndra, Beacon, and Abound Solar; the total loans they actually took out under government backing totalled $648 million. That is a loss of 4% of the total loans backed and an 11% failure rate for companies receiving backing.
It is important to understand that this $648 million is also the total cost incurred thusfar by the loan program. These are gaurantees of private loans, not direct expenditures. Therefore this does not equate to 26 billion that could have been spent elsewhere - but rather a total stake of $26 for which at least some of it could have been risked far more wisely. The default rate is not anywhere near 50%, the ammount spent in this way is not nearly half of the $90 billion energy program with which the loans were conflated, the total was not spent on "green jobs," nor is much of this cost in the form of tax breaks.
The wisdom in choosing how to spread this risk and best use those gaurantees is certainly questionable. I disagree with many of the loans made particularly since the total number of permanent jobs created by some of them are extremely small and the construction jobs are fewer than what supporting many smaller loans could have produced. Additionally I would expect the bankruptcy rate to climb as some of the remaining projects face similar challenges as Solyndra had - that they are manufacturing a commodity item without the benefit of near-slave labor enjoyed by some overseas manufacturers. The honest and accurate criticisms that could have been made in this matter are more complicated and sound less impressive than the ones made with conflated or outright dishonest figures.
I've got an example of one of these arguments for Obama from the debate; that is an example where an honest criticism could have been argued but a sensationalized and fundamentally dishonest one was used. I'll throw that one in after I have some coffee.
I wish it weren't that way. I wish people would sit down and spend the hours to really look into what each candidate is saying. Frankly, I think a lot of the candidates would like that, too. Who wants their career ended because their tie clashed with their coat in a "debate"?? It would sure help our government to no end.
Now here's a shot from Republicans that I didn't expect: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/06/ga…e-republicans/
Referenced website is here: http://www.colleensworld.com/
So I guess we're all a bunch of loonies stuck in our fantasy worlds. Thanks a lot GOP. Well, at least they aren't accusing us of holding satanic rituals while we play anymore.
Wow, I guess none of us should run for a public office then. Right….
Every time I read this thread's title, something in my mind desperately wants to read "VON6" … ;)
Just what I suspected all along. The Horde are a bunch of liberals!
Actually after reading her posts she sounds like a lot of people I played with in MMO's-"I used to be normal and go to work every day"
Senator issues report on government waste, lists Congress itself. Gotta love it.
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The Church has consistently taught that humans seek out the true, the good, and the beautiful. Artists, musicians, composers, actors, etc. have a special place in helping us discover all of three, especially beauty, in the created order. Benedict XVI says this, "if we acknowledge that beauty touches us intimately, that it wounds us, that it opens our eyes, then we rediscover the joy of seeing, of being able to grasp the profound meaning of our existence."
As a musician himself (pianist) the Pope understands the importance of such truths personally. We should listen closely when he speaks about it:
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