I used to have very thick, shiny, wavy hair. I was on a heavy SAD diet and then drastically changed my eating habbits pretty much overnight and lost about 25 lbs. For about two years I cut out fat entirely from my diet and for the past 3 years have also stopped menstruating. My hair is now thin and dull. Since I have very low estrogen and do not get my period I think this has attributed to my hair. I know estrogen has a strong impact on hair. 2 years ago I also developed Alopecia. It makes me so sad, I miss my beautiful hair and I don’t know how to fix it! I have uped my fat intake and tried maca for about 3 months but nothing has worked. Any advice?
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Thank you all so much for your response. I have started to include flax, avacados, seeds, nuts, and coconut butter into my diet a few months ago but maybe not enough? My GYN says its my brain telling my body that right now is not a good time to have a baby because it is a high stress enviornment. I am confused because I am not underweight I am 5’4 and 118lbs. Also, my hair grows fast but just so dull and thin. So could it be just stress or is it my diet? I will deffinately try MSM queenfluff I really appreciate the advice.
try adding more greens to your diet. Green smoothies are an easy way to do this especially with a high speed blender
wow looks like I have some shopping to do! I was just wondering what exactly is MSM? And could anyone share their experiences with take it? Thanks again queenfluff!
I think there is a direct correlation between my hair thinning, loss of my period, and the amount of emotional stress I have been under. This being said, I am confused if this is something I can correct through nutrition or if I have to reduce the stress, which I am not sure how to do. Samilicious, did you notice your hair problems arose after your stress levels increased?
Hi! I joined this site a while ago but had to activate my account still and when I saw this thread I did it immediately! I have worked in a holistic nutritionist’s office for about 8 years and I’ve seen this scenario a dozen or so times over the course of those 8 years. The nutritionists I work with, and I’m studying to become one myself, focus on cleansing and detoxification. Over the years when clients have had hair loss the area that the nutritionist’s always address is the liver and gallbladder. The reason being is that there is usually impaction in those areas in the form of stones. As most people have never cleaned out their livers or gallbladders they are usually not fuctioning optimally to begin with, and as the body goes through it’s detoxificaton process that area often gets mucked up with more gunk. When this area is clogged the body does not absorb it’s nutrients properly, so even if we are ingesting enough we will not be absorbing enough. Usually gallbladder stones and sludge are the culprit in cases of hair loss, that I’ve witnessed. In the office I work in, when there are stubborn cases, such as what yours sounds like, the nutritionists recommend a liver/gallbladder flush. I have seen every single person’s hair loss reversed by doing these. You ought to check out the fantastic book by Andreas Moritz, titled, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse. It will explain everything you need to know! That may be all you need. By the way, after all those years of seeing others go through a hair loss bout, it happened to me last year and through a course of 2 liver/gallbladder flushes along with high amounts of Gold Coin extract in tincture form that issue was fixed! Phew! It did take several months. This may not be all of the answer for you, but it may be a significant piece. I wish you the best.
I just bought a new product, it is a blend of all organic cold pressed oils from flax, hemp, coconut, green tea, blueberries, raspberries, and a few others. It is rich in all essential fatty acids and alot of other great things! I started taking almost a tablespoon each morning. Im on day 4 so hopefully I will see results in a few weeks!!
So its been about a week since I started with the oil blend and I was just wondering if it did effect my hair and loss of period.. about how long would it take to see any sort of results? Iam patient, just wondering.. any thoughts?.. Kauaigirl your post was very interesting! If you dont mind me asking, have you experienced any changes in your period?
What works wonders for me and my hair is when i eat seaweed everyday. Worth a try? (: Good luck!
Hey, Valeria! Yeah, there’s even a whole article about it in Get Fresh! magazine (Summer 2007). It also says dark leafies are good,too but I think most people know that! (:
Dried I think are fine, as long as they are sun-dried/low-temp dried, and you also usually have to rehydrate them before you eat them.$
Here’s a few clips from the article (By Tonya Zavasta) called, The Mermaid’s beauty secret:
“(...)My second hip replacement – 2 surgeries in 5 days – so shocked my body I was afraid I’d go bald. My pony tail looked more like a mouses tail. (...)
I decided to try seaweed, also called sea vegetable. Research shows sodium alginate, a compound found in most seaweed, binds with heavy metals and chemical poisons, flushing them from the body. Sea vegetables help the body to discharge radioactive wastes. They nourish the endocrine system, especially the thoroid and adrenal glands. Iodine in seaweed keeps the thyroid functioning normally, and is high in natural sodium.
Sea vegetables, especially Wakame and Nori, served me well, improving kidney function and completely ridding me of those dark circles, all this within just weeks after surgery. Sea vegetables, providing plenty of proteins, complex carbohydrates, carotenes, and chlorophyll, stimulate and strengthen the skin, hair, and nails. Brittle hair, caused by a shortage of minerals, too much salt or animal food, oe excessive use of drugs, can be restored by eating sea vegetables.
(...) Whey you first begin to eat a high-raw diet, you might loose some hair. This is part of the cleansing process. But since the diet will give excess nourishment, your hair will begin to thrive and be much stronger in the long run. (..)
(...) A healthy human scalp contains about 100,000 hairs, blondes often having more, redheads fewer. Normal daily loss is about 100 hair strands. If you suspect you are losing hair, most likely you are. Now that the cleansing of my body is compete, there are days when I find only a few or no strands of hair on my hairbrush after grooming. What a thrill!
(...) Mermaids are often portrayed combing their hair. The scalp, being an extremity, is deprived of good blood flow stimulation. I am a big believer in 100 brush strokes per day, 50 in the morning, 50 at night. To brush properly, bend your head forward from the waist down. While brushing, the blood will rush to your face and hair, bringing additional nourishment This helps open the pores, removing diet and dead cells and distributes oil from the scalp towards the end of your hair. The capillaries on your scalp will become unclogged and more nourishment will reach the hair roots. Brushing massages the scalp and stimulates hair growth. (...)”
Okay, wow, sorry that was long. But i hope it helped!! (:
yay, thanks! :) Cool – Good luck!
I know someone else mentioned this, but I’d like to reiterate that you should get a thorough thyroid and hormone panel done by your doctor. I started experiencing the same issues last year and a hormone panel revealed that I had extremely high prolactin levels. Many doctors don’t check prolactin. Good Luck!