Hair Loss, Menstrual Cycle and Hormones

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let’s talk about women who get hair loss  that is related to various hormonal changes let’s first start with the menstrual cycle at  day 15 when you’re ovulating uh you get this huge spike of estrogen okay and then in the next two  weeks you’re going to get a spike in progesterone and androgen so depending on what time of the  month you’re getting hair loss will give us clues as to what hormone is involved but most women tend  to lose hair in the second half of the menstrual cycle when there’s a spike of androgens now when  a woman goes through menopause they can continue to have hair loss to some degree because there’s  this faint hormonal rhythm going on to some degree so if you’re getting hair loss pre-menopause  so let’s say for example you’re in your 20s 30s or the first part of your 40s  right and you’re getting hair loss at the second half of your cycle you need to lower  androgens the best way to do that is to lower your insulin okay that means you need to lower  your carbohydrates that is the single most important thing to help stop hair loss so  you want to go on a low carb diet that’s keto as well as doing intermittent fasting but let’s  say for example you’re postmenopausal and your hair is falling out that is a situation  where you’re very low in progesterone you’re pretty low in androgens but you’re also  low in estrogen as well so you have a lessening of all three hormones in which case you need to  take something called dhea that’s a precursor to those hormones and it will help you elevate the  hormones but here’s a catch-22 if you take a very small amount let’s say 10 milligrams you’ll  increase more estrogen if you start taking more let’s say 20 30 even 40 milligrams you’re  gonna also spike androgens too much and that may cause more hair loss so with taking dhea for hair  loss you want to just take a very small amount to increase estrogen and the other hormones just by  a little bit because too much is not a good idea okay so let’s say someone’s postpartum they  just had a baby and they have this severe drop in estrogen well that can cause just patches  of hair coming out of your head in which case you need to take 10 milligrams of dhea and  that’ll bring it up nicely let’s say you have pcos polycystic ovarian syndrome that’s  a situation where your androgens are too high simply reduce your insulin by going on keto  and intermittent fasting another really good thing to take to help your pituitary and  ovary communication is to take inositol okay inositol they’re actually sweet vitamins  there’s no sugar in it but inositol will help pcos big time okay let’s say for example your period  is very heavy okay and you’re losing blood that is high levels of estrogen in this case you do not  want to take dhea you want to take dim now dim actually does the opposite it lowers estrogen it’s  a concentrated cruciferous product and it’s very very good for people that are estrogen dominant  the other thing you want to take is iron and i would highly recommend getting that from animal  products like red meat liver you can take liver pills that’s the best source of iron all right  next scenario let’s say for example you have a slow thyroid because your estrogen increased now  how are you going to know that it’s high estrogen well it could be you just gave birth okay  that high spike of estrogen will definitely shut the thyroid down and so if you have a  hypothyroid condition right after birth or during birth then we know it’s an estrogen problem or  let’s say you started taking birth control pills and then you ended up with a hypothyroid  condition or let’s say for example you took hormone replacement therapy and you end up with a  slow thyroid or if you have heavy periods which is high estrogen and you have a slow thyroid then you  have clues to know what caused that so what do we do with high estrogen we take dim what does dim do  it lowers estrogen it’s a product that you can get online bile salts greatly help the conversion of  t4 to t3 through your liver so taking bile salts improve a slow thyroid and then selenium is very  very important because most hypothyroid cases are hashimoto’s and that’s more of a situation where  selenium can help you one last scenario let’s say you’re taking birth control pills for a period  of time and you stop taking birth control pills all of a sudden your hair starts falling out that  is an estrogen crash okay the way to bring that up is simply by taking an acetol because inositol  resets the flow of hormones between your pituitary and your ovary and lastly you don’t want  to forget about two additional things that can cause your hair loss and one is a trace  mineral deficiency and a b vitamin deficiency so trace minerals and b vitamins including biotin  can greatly support hair and prevent it from falling out all right those are the different  scenarios that could potentially affect your hair hey before you go if you’re benefiting  from any of my content i 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