01/06/2022
Gründe für Haarausfall könnten sein:
Thirty percent of women report serious hair loss by age thirty.
By age fifty, that statistic climbs to 50 percent. This is a major problem, of both vanity and sanity.
Sometimes hair loss is associated with polycystic o***y syndrome (PCOS, with high androgens), but more commonly, I find in women that the root cause is:
🔸low iron
🔸thyroid hormone imbalance
🔸insulin resistance.
To find a patient’s particular reason for hair loss, I order the full blood panel that includes:
◾Complete blood count
◾Ferritin - needs to be >40 to stabilize hair loss, and >70 for new hair growth).
◾TSH
◾Free T3
◾Possibly reverse T3
◾Cortisol
◾Fasting insulin
◾Blood glucose
◾Hemoglobin A1C
◾Testosterone (total and free)
◾Antinuclear antibody (can indicate if hair loss is auto-immune related)
There are other nutrient gaps at the root of hair loss: essential fatty acids (try 1000mg of evening primrose oil) and lysine.
For full details on these tests as well as protocols and supplements, see Chapter 8 on Excess Androgens in THE HORMONE CURE. Also pages 377-378
The good news is that you can often stop and even reverse the symptoms of hair loss once you balance your hormones. My advice is to try therapies aimed at the root cause of your hair loss first.
You can also help hair loss with your fork: one study showed that 90 percent of women with thinning hair were deficient in iron and the amino acid lysine, which helps transport the iron that is essential for many metabolic processes. You can add lysine to your diet with foods rich in protein, such as meat and poultry, soy, eggs, cheese (especially Parmesan), and some fish (cod, sardines).
