Menopause, Stress and Female Hair Loss – Dr. Sophia Kogan with Dave Asprey – #793

• You’ve just seen a huge increase in hair shedding recently. Not personally, but just in the world. What’s going on with that? – 2:52
• So it’s a lot of things that people are stressed about and follicles are very sensitive to stress. – 11:30
  
• It was mostly women that were coming back with the hair shedding and telogen effluvium. Telogen effluvium is found predominantly in women.  – 14:02
  
• Each person it’s going to be really different, but they’ve got to feel a feeling of calmness because that’s when you calm the nervous system.  – 16:36
  
• We’re all striving towards homeostasis, but in reality, what we’re really striving for, it’s towards allostasis. And for anyone who doesn’t know the difference, homeostasis is where there’s static and allostasis is mobile. – 17:46
  
• Why do women lose hair during perimenopause?  – 19:51
  
• Relative to the estrogen and progesterone, there’s going to be a dominance of androgens. And if you’re stressed, you’re actually going to contribute to that.  – 24:04
  
• So the follicle gets miniaturized, it becomes thinner and smaller. There’s less of it. There is less hairs in each follicle. – 27:49
  
• Terminal hair is what you really want to increase, but you want to affect the vellus hairs as well. So the terminal hair is increased by about 10% on day 180. – 30:54
  
• The ones that were taking Nutrafol actually, they had an increase of about again 10%, but the ones that did not take Nutrafol had a decrease that was also statistically significant and it was about 3% decrease. – 31:26
  
• Why are you able to do this? I mean, are you turning down cortisol? What are you manipulating? – 33:03
  
• One of the things that I find really irritating about hair is it’s the worst biofeedback system ever. – 38:48
  
• When somebody got really stressed and went gray overnight, how does that happen?  – 43:13
  
• I think using antioxidants is a big deal. You have to boost your own because we’re declining an anti-oxidant potential as we grow older. – 48:00
• This is the first study that came out on women in menopause or who are going through hair thinning that for a natural supplement there’s virtually nothing even on that non natural supplement. So we’re very proud of ourselves. – 52:43
• That’s why we talk about hair wellness. It’s about really changing the systems inside, what you do, and essentially biohacking your way to improve the hair outside. – 55:20
• We’re going to be able to talk about periods, great. Hallelujah, we finally can. We can talk about menopause, Hallelujah, will we ever finally can. And now I think it’s really important to just like you said, address the fact that, “Hey, this is going to happen to you at some point in time.” So what can you do about it? And I always encourage women to speak up because that’s the first way that they can de-stress.  – 58:41

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