Great article on female hair loss from Marie claire

"Stylists always gushed, "Wow, you've got a lot of hair." I took my lush mane for granted, perming, straightening, and bleaching my way through my teens. But during my sophomore year of college, as I found myself pulling more and more tangles out of my brush and strands from the shower drain, the compliments stopped and the worry began. I jealously examined the girl next to me on the subway — why couldn't I see through to the roots on her scalp, too? Once a sheet of shiny darkness, my hair had taken on an alarmingly transparent quality. I spent hours every week staring at my scalp in the mirror, parting and reparting my hair to see which side looked fuller. I drenched my head with volumizing sprays, detoxifying tonics, and shampoos for "weakened hair." Remedies were thick on the ground — but my hair kept getting thinner. I was molting. And I was scared.

Like a peacock's brilliant feathers, hair is a secondary sexual characteristic, explains London trichologist Dr. Philip Kingsley. "You don't need it to keep you either warm or cool, so its primary function is to increase attractiveness." We live in a culture of hair, coveting Victoria's Secret supermodels' voluptuous waves as much as their curves. So closely linked are sex appeal and self-esteem that a 2004 Rogaine survey of more than 500 women across the U.S. revealed that 24 percent equated losing their hair to losing a limb. Since 30 million women in America — roughly one in four — have thinning hair, there's a serious portion of the population at risk for an emotional crisis."

Fantastic article - http://www.marieclaire.com/hair-beauty/trends/thinning-hair

For goodness sake...iodine!

Thinning hair in women - The Thyroid?

Women who lose their hair-is it the thyroid? Most of the time it is. Or it's after pregnancy.

"Female pattern hair loss typically will present with diffuse thinning of the hair on the top and crown of the scalp without hairline recession, and the hair loss rarely progresses to total or near total hair loss.

“Female pattern hair loss is a source of significant anxiety and distress in the affected patient. Identifying the age of onset of pattern hair loss is instrumental in helping clinicians better manage the hair thinning and lead to better patient expectations,” says Vera H. Price, M.D., professor, department of dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Price spoke recently at the North American Dermatologic Society annual meeting.Pattern hair loss is characterized by hair miniaturization, or follicle downsizing, due to anagen shortening and matrix reduction."

"In women, pattern hair loss includes three stages of hair miniaturization based on age of onset, and these stages are referred to by different names. Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is a genetically determined androgen-mediated trait that is generally considered the female equivalent of male androgenetic alopecia.

The term female pattern hair loss is gaining in popularity as a less committal term when the role of androgens is less clear-cut and other hormonal and non-hormonal factors may play a role. The term senescent alopecia refers to age-related hair thinning, and is distinct from AGA and is not dihydrotestosterone (DHT)-mediated."

http://dermatologytimes.modernmedicine.com/dermatology-times/news/managing-female-pattern-hair-loss-what-works?contextCategoryId=116




What can you do for your thyroid that has been blocked after years of heavy metals and fluoride? Iodine usually does the trick. First iodine will detox you for a few days but after that your metabolism should come back. Plus your hair loss should stop.