A resident of the UK spoke about hair loss after refusing food of animal origin. This is reported by the Daily Mail. Musician Jessica Dru from London says she decided to go vegan last April. “More and more acquaintances have tried to do this,” she says. “I stopped eating dairy products a long time ago and thought that I could just as well give up meat.”
At first, Drew felt better and more energetic, but after a few weeks she noticed hair loss. “I was moulting all over the house,” she recalls. - In some places the hair on the head became thin, especially in the front. This confused me. I thought I was older than my years, but I’m not even 30”. Despite this, Drew did not give up on a vegan diet. After a few months, drowsiness was added to the hair loss. Waking up in the morning became so difficult that she had to set several alarm clocks.
One of the reasons for her hair loss could be the lack of keratins in her diet - the proteins that make up hair and nails. In addition to meat and fish, they are found in beans, lentils, chickpeas, and soy milk. Now Drew is trying to expand her diet with plant-based foods with keratins and hopes that this will solve her problem. In 2018, it was reported that a couple of Australian vegans drove a one and a half year old child to malnutrition and rickets by putting him on a strict animal-free diet. The girl's weight at 19 months was 4.9 kilograms.