The 6 Things That Increase The Odds Of Female Hair Loss

#3: Dramatic Changes In Your Hormones Generally

Pretty much every hormonal change can cause hair loss. That’s one of the reasons why women increase their hair when they’re pregnant and then lose it when they’re postpartum. After they deliver their baby and their estrogen and progesterone levels go down to zero from being sky high, that triggers hair loss. Dramatic hormone shifts can cause hair loss.

#4:  Insulin Resistance

Insulin is a fat storage hormone. It does a number of things to the body, including causing increased belly fat. But if your cells become numb to insulin. If you have insulin resistance, it also increases your chance of hair loss. Big changes to your diet can really help turn this around!

Look at your fasting glucose. We want that fasting glucose to be less than 87. Otherwise there’s a big chance that you’ve got a problem with insulin resistance

#5: Autoimmune Issues

This is a broad subject, but according to Dr. Gottfried there is a link between auto-immune issues and hair loss. So if you have skin issues, joint pain, swelling etc- this is often correlated with hair loss.

#6: Really High/Low Testosterone

Conclusion: Those are the most common causes of hair loss. The list is actually quite a bit longer, but that’s valuable just to help people get into action.

Dr. Sara Gottfried’s Observations On Hair Loss In Women

Hair loss is a scarlet letter of accelerated aging — and taps into women’s deepest fears and ambivalence of growing old and less relevant. And here’s the worst part — the solutions currently on offer are unpalatable and patronizing. Forty percent of my patients report hair loss, but they never report it neutrally — they’re furious.

They feel conventional doctors offer no effective answers or treatments. Rogaine? Propecia? Please. We are obsessed with making symptoms rather than addressing the root cause. Hair to a woman is in a different category than the rest of the body. Hair is like breasts. Women have powerful emotional and psychological attachment to boobs and hair, and I totally get it. Nothing says aging like female hair loss.