Fighting Hair Loss – The Three Common Causes

Hair loss can occur for multiple different reasons. Figuring out which category you fall into can help you pick a path forward to correct problems with your hair.

I’ve seen hair loss occur because of hormone imbalance and hormone replacement therapy, family genetics, and histamine dominance. While all these root problems are very different, they lead to the same frustrating problem.

I pay attention to everything that impacts my patient’s health because that is how Chinese Medicine works. An acupuncturist diagnoses their patients based on their symptoms and identifies how to correct the root problem. Here’s what I would do for each of the problems affecting your hair growth:

Hormone Problems

Your hormones are always fluctuating. Underlying that fluctuation is diet, digestion, and stress.

When you have the right level of hormones, your body should convert and detoxify your hormones. However, if you’re on hormone replacement therapy, you may be receiving too many hormones. Then, you won’t be able to detoxify the excess hormones, causing an unwanted shift in your body. 

Many women start hormone replacement therapy and feel great, until they don’t. Or some things feel good while others feel worse. This is because of the constant shift in hormones made more dramatic by hormone replacement therapy and the accumulation of estrogen.

Balancing hormones for women is more complex than it is for men on testosterone replacement therapy because of estrogen’s complicated nature. Excess estrogen can even cause clots or accelerate the growth of some cancers.

There are many women who benefit from hormone replacement therapy, but it depends on your body’s specific needs. For help tailored to your needs, you will benefit from consistent care from a qualified professional like me who looks at the whole picture to help the body detoxify while supporting diet and digestion. 

Genetics

You might be worried that genetic hair loss means you’re a lost cause, but there are many things we can do for hair loss that’s from your family’s DNA. 

Supporting your scalp and supporting blood flow are crucial for healthy hair growth. Herbs, red light therapy, and stimulating the scalp are good places to start.

Acupuncture can also be a great method for stimulating hair growth. I have a specialized technique called facial rejuvenation acupuncture that I’ve used to successfully help patients regrow their hair in places where they’ve completely lost hair growth.

There are of course other options available like Rogaine, hair implants, and wigs. If these options don’t appeal to you, and you’d rather start the path toward natural hair regrowth, we can formulate a plan that wakes up your hair growth and allows your body to do it on its own.

Even if you do use one of these other options, I recommend supporting hair loss no matter what with herbs, diet, and supplements. New symptoms, including hair loss, are a window into your health – it’s information about how well your body is aging and healing, which is often influenced by your genetics. Regardless of your genetics, we can correct nutrient deficiencies and other problems with gentle treatment options that correct unwanted symptoms.

Histamine Dominance

An often-overlooked cause of hair loss is histamine dominance. If you have allergies, feel itchy all the time, struggle with food sensitivities, and have low hormones, your body may have excessive amounts of histamine.

You might notice working out makes these problems worse. Blood deficiency can also be a factor – women often have heavy, prolonged periods or high stress that influences histamine levels.

A thorough health history can help to determine what you need to correct these issues. There are natural treatments that help correct histamine levels, which will help a lot more than just hair loss. 

Getting Your Hair Back

Natural medicine has had solutions in place for thousands of years to stay in balance that are gentle and functional for the body. Most of us struggle with having realistic expectations around aging from advertising’s false promises and anti-aging societal norms around us. 

The truth is a combination of treatments that include natural remedies, medication, and esthetic are all helpful to helping you feel your best. Your body and the symptoms you want to fix will continue to change and fluctuate as you age. 

When choosing a path forward, remember the surgery that makes you happy in the moment will fade. Botox causes side effects in the glands it’s next to, impacting your whole-body health. The platelet-rich plasma therapy, or PRP, gets redistributed to the rest of the body and loses effectiveness. 

Most of my patients win in the long game. They fall and don’t break their hip. They don’t get cancer. Their hair loss improves. They don’t get sick or experience milder symptoms than their friends when a pandemic hits. 

Over time, natural medicine causes huge gains because it creates balance and treats the root problem. I see women get immediately better in the first month of my treatment plans. That improvement continues as we adjust the protocols in months two and three depending on their needs.

I love helping my patients, and I’d love to help you too. If you’re struggling with hair loss or other symptoms, let’s figure out why and what we need to do to fix it. Schedule an appointment with me and we can come up with a plan that puts your body’s specific needs at the center of your treatment.