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GLP-1 medication and hair shedding, what is actually happening
GLP-1 medication and hair shedding, what is actually happening
You started a GLP-1. Month six or seven arrives. Suddenly there is hair in the shower drain, hair on the pillow, hair in your hands. It is frightening, it is... Read more...
Can Your Hair Porosity Change Over Time?
Can Your Hair Porosity Change Over Time?
Short answer. Yes, and it almost certainly already has. Longer answer, and the one that actually helps. Porosity is not a hair type you were assigned at birth. It is... Read more...
Why Does Hair Texture Change During Menopause?
Why Does Hair Texture Change During Menopause?
Thirty years of poker straight hair. Then, seemingly overnight, waves. Or the reverse. Or the same hair you have always had, except now it is finer, drier and behaves like... Read more...
New Hair Growth or Breakage? How to Tell the Difference
New Hair Growth or Breakage? How to Tell the Difference
You spot a halo of short hairs standing up around your part. Cue the spiral. Is this hair finally coming back, or is it snapping off? It matters, because the... Read more...
Postpartum Hair Shedding and How to Support Regrowth
Postpartum Hair Shedding and How to Support Regrowth
You are three months in, you are washing your hair, and a genuinely alarming amount of it is stuck to the shower wall. Then it is on the pillow, on... Read more...
Protein Overload, When Hair Has Had Too Much Repair
Protein Overload, When Hair Has Had Too Much Repair
Your hair feels stiff. It snaps instead of stretching, the ends look like straw, and somewhere in the middle of a scroll someone tells you the answer is obvious, you... Read more...
Scalp Buildup and Hard Water, Why Hair Feels Coated
Scalp Buildup and Hard Water, Why Hair Feels Coated
Your hair feels like it has a film on it. Styling products sit on top instead of sinking in, your blow dry drops within the hour, and no amount of... Read more...
Why Does Hair Thin During Perimenopause?
Why Does Hair Thin During Perimenopause?
If your ponytail feels thinner, your part looks wider, or the shower drain suddenly tells a sad story, you are not imagining it. Perimenopause hair thinning is one of the most... Read more...
Hair Density vs Hair Thickness: What’s the Difference?
Hair Density vs Hair Thickness: What’s the Difference?
Two people can have hair that looks identical from a metre away and still have completely different hair on a molecular level. That is the tension at the heart of... Read more...
HRT and Hair Growth: What Changes and What Doesn’t?
HRT and Hair Growth: What Changes and What Doesn’t?
Starting hormone replacement therapy can shift your hair in ways that feel exciting, confusing, and sometimes both at once. The link between HRT and hair growth is real, but it does... Read more...
Postpartum vs Perimenopausal Hair Loss: How Can You Tell the Difference?
Postpartum vs Perimenopausal Hair Loss: How Can You Tell the Difference?
Finding more hair than usual on your pillow, in the shower drain, or wrapped around your brush can be unsettling. When you are also navigating a new baby or the... Read more...
Ferritin, Iron and Hair Loss: What Can Your Blood Tests Reveal?
Ferritin, Iron and Hair Loss: What Can Your Blood Tests Reveal?
If your hair is shedding more than usual and nobody can tell you why, your blood work might hold the answer. The connection between ferritin and hair loss is one of... Read more...