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Welcome to the Thyroid Fixer podcast, where we dive deep into the world of thyroid and hormones, especially for you ladies navigating perimenopause and menopause. And really for anyone struggling with hypothyroidism, I'm your host, Dr. Amy, thyroid and hormone specialist and CEO of a global telemedicine practice where we prescribe the right thyroid treatment and bioidentical hormones to all 50 states and most of Canada, helping you become that badass human that you're meant to be. So if you're battling weight gain and hair loss, you can't lose weight no matter what you do. Your energy levels are plummeting and your libido left town. Then you're in the right place and you have found your tribe. Remember, I want you to embrace every inch of that badass moment that you truly are. So if you're ready to dive in and fix things, let's get started. Do you want to burn fat while just sitting around? Do you have extra weight to lose? Do you want less inflammation? 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So thyroid textbook.com pre order yours Today, welcome to the Fixing series. We are doing a series that touches on the top symptoms that you are experiencing with thyroid problems or hormone imbalance, weight loss resistance, fatigue, and hair loss. These are the big three that I hear from you. All that I see in my patients that drive you crazy, that you think about every single day, that basically consumes space in your head. And you are searching Dr. Google, trying to find answers, buying programs that don't work, all the things right. So it's important to be educated. First, the root cause of those symptoms. Inability to lose weight, hair loss, fatigue. We have to find the why. And there are multiple, multiple whys. But when we go over them and then you take this information and do your own checklist, you can see, oh, yeah, maybe. Maybe it is my thyroid. You know, my doctor said that everything was normal, but now that I'm listening to this, I'm realizing it's not normal. This is not in a normal range or in an optimal range. My doctor is just looking at it as part of the standard lab value range. Oh, wait, yeah, no, I'm not eating enough protein. I had no idea that protein was so important for weight loss and for hair and for fatigue. Oh, my gosh. It spans all three. So we're going to talk about, in each of these episodes in this series, we're going to talk about what you can do to fix this, what you need to look at, what you need to test, what you need to check yourself for. Maybe it's just, am I lifting heavy? Am I eating enough protein? Am I drinking enough water? Am I doing all the things? Am I taking the supplement? Or do I need to go deeper and get proper testing and look at my individual lab values that contribute to one of many symptoms? So enjoy the fixing series. We're going to talk about fixing your weight loss resistance, your fatigue and your hair loss. Fixing hair loss. Now, this is a big one. I can't believe we saved this till last, right? Hair loss has so many facets to it. So we have to start with the basics. Number one is that you have to remember when you're in that frustration mode of hair loss or hair thinning, whatever you want to call it. Hair loss, hair thinning, bald spots. And there are different causes for each of those. But when you're experiencing that, it's going to be something that occurred months ago, because here's how hair tends to respond to things. Do you remember back in Covid, if you had Covid and you lost your hair or my cage, your hair literally broke off? It happened 60 to 90 days after you had Covid. So yes, viruses is, we can chalk up. Viruses are one cause of hair loss because a heavy duty viral load with a boatload of inflammation that occurs with it is going to affect the follicle. Hair goes through a hair growth cycle. So whenever we are losing our hair, we have to look backwards. And I use covet as an example because pretty much everybody lost their hair or their hair broke off or thinned or something happened to their hair. If you had covet, but it happened months later and then it recycled and happened like nine months after that, it was, it was a crazy time. It was a crazy, I think you'll agree with me, it's a crazy time. But because the hair goes through that resting phase whenever we experience stress of any kind. COVID death, divorce, change of job, a move again, another heavy viral load. Hypothyroidism in and of itself as a stressor. Now I'll get back to hypothyroidism as a cause, but as a stressor. Hormonal changes, fluctuations, perimenopause, menopause, pregnancy, stressors. Whenever you experience stress of any kind, mental, physical, psychological, emotional, viral, the hair responds by entering into this resting phase. And in that resting phase you see this increased hair shedding and potential hair loss. This is actually called telogen effluvium. You can look it up, read about it. And it occurs because the stress hormones, cortisol, high glucose, it disrupts the normal hair growth cycle. So the resting phase, the growing phase, and then the falling out phase. And the falling out phase is normal. It's a normal part of the hair growth cycle. If we never lost our hair, we would be walking around with 20 pounds of hair on our head. It doesn't even make sense. So we still have to go through that hair loss cycle. You know how your mom always told you it's normal to lose 100 hairs a day, so don't freak out if you see them in your brush. But if you see more than that, then that's a problem. So that hair growth cycle is key to keeping in mind because we have a tendency to kind of freak out and we start thinking about things that happened yesterday. And that's not the case when it comes to hair. So cortisol, stress hormones, disrupts that normal hair growth cycle. It impacts the follicle and it causes that follicle to prematurely transition into that resting phase where the hair sheds more easily. And then you have that chronic stress, that long term stress. Taking care of a parent A sick child, that long, long term stress, that totally makes the whole situation worse because it just exacerbates that whole growing, resting, falling out. It increases all of those hair cycles. And then what happens is you just start to notice, you're like, wait, why is my hair so thin? Or why do I have visible balm patches? So we have to know the hair growth cycle in order to understand anything else that may affect it. Now, I pulled in a couple of things that affect it, but let's break this all down. Autoimmune in and of itself. So autoimmunity begets autoimmunity. Where we see one, we see more than one. So if you have Hashimoto's already, it totally makes sense that you would have or be more prone to alopecia areata, which is an autoimmune condition where your body, just like it, likes to attack your thyroid and thinks it's a bad guy, it attacks your hair follicle and it thinks it's a bad guy. So it literally is beating up your follicle, thus causing it to fall out. Now, alopecia tends to occur in patches. It tends to attack a certain grouping of hair. So this is where you will actually see bald spots on your head. And we'll get into what you can do in the treatment and all of that good stuff as well. Obviously controlling your autoimmunity, reducing inflammation, supporting your immune system, all the same things that we do for Hashimoto's. Taking Hashimoto's fixer, black cumin seed oil, Lotos, Naltrexone, being gluten free, all of that helps with autoimmune across the board, of course, specifically and including alopecia. Now, other things that can affect it, we already talked about infections, viral loads, nutrient deficiencies. So we always say check your ferritin, check your ferritin. If ferritin is low, it's not really a good situation for anything thyroid related. So all you Hashimoto patients, if you have low fetin, and we have a specific podcast on this if you want to listen to, we can link it in the show. Notes. Low ferritin will cause hair loss, low energy, weight gain. Basically, it overlaps with the symptoms of hypothyroidism. So if you think low ferritin, you can think hypothyroidism. It's going to overlap and it's going to share a boatload of symptoms. Get your ferritin levels at least to an 80, if not to 100 or over 100, especially if you are A Hashimoto's patient, because that's going to significantly improve all of your life, including your hair. If you have low ferritin and you're complaining of hair loss, get the ferritin up. Vitamin B12 deficiency. This is very, very common in vegans, vegetarians, and anyone taking metformin. And really, anyone not taking a complex B vitamin like B fixer or another high quality B complex. Because lack of B12, in addition to tanking your energy and screwing up your walking and your gait and your vision and your ability to process carbohydrates, low B12 levels also come back and affect the hair. Certain medications, birth control pills, ladies, antidepressants that they put you on as a band aid instead of actually treating your thyroid and your hormones, all can contribute to hair loss. Loss of hormones. This is why I say old lady hair. When I say old lady hair, I mean, I don't mean just short and gray. I mean, if you look at older women who are not on hormone replacement, you can see their scalp. Their hair is so thin, you can literally see right through it to their scalp. And this is low estradiol. Now, all the hormones will contribute to hair, hair quality, hair growth, all of that, but specifically estradiol as it relates to our skin and our hair. Key. So if you are not on hormone replacement therapy, if you're going at this menopause thing au natural and you're, you're white, knuckling your way through it, number one, you don't have to. By the way, there's no badge of honor for going through menopause miserable. There really isn't. Ladies, no one is putting you on a pedestal because you are aging naturally or gracefully. There's nothing wrong with adding in hormones. In fact, it's kind of key if you actually want to avoid disease and live your best life ever. But by all means, if you don't want to live your best life ever, don't do it. Hormones are absolutely key when it comes to hair and hair quality. So as you lose estradiol or as you lose hormones in general, so the loss of hormones is a stress. The loss of estradiol directly impacts your hair. Are you starting to see all the different things that can impact your hair? By the way? Just saying, you need to replace hormones. Genetics do play a small role. We will see some androgenic alopecia or male pattern baldness and female pattern hair loss inherited from parents. So if you, if you're looking at your parents and you're like, well, mom and Grandma had a bald spot on the back of their head. Okay, that, that absolutely could be genetics, but can you do something? Why, why did they have that bald spot? Did they have alopecia? Did they have autoimmune? Were they passing that around in your family? Or did they not take hormones? And that's the reason. Circling back, and I'm going to bounce all around here, circling back to the nutritional deficiencies, we have to put protein in there too. Because as I was talking about mom and grandma, the other thought that popped in my head is, are they eating enough protein? I know my mom didn't and my grandmother certainly didn't. My God. She was raised in the depression area, so she's not going to have enough protein. They were living on bread and potatoes. So if you don't have enough protein, as in 1 gram of protein per pound of lean body mass, if you're not getting in the amino acids, if you are a vegan or vegetarian, you're kind of screwed. But if you're not getting in the amino acids and not getting in enough animal based protein, your hair will suffer. Your hair will absolutely suffer. If you are exhausted, gaining weight, you have brain fog, you just feel off and you're tired of doctor hopping and wasting money. Listen closely. So many women bounce from provider to provider, trying supplements, protocols and then functional approaches that never truly address the thyroid. Months turn into years and you're still stuck, feeling like garbage, wasting your precious life. So this is why we offer a thyroid and hormone solution call. It's not a lab review, it's not treatment. It's clarity and strategy to determine whether you're a good fit for working with our clinic. We specialize in thyroid optimization and hormone optimization together. Because they go hand in hand. You can't do one without the other. You have to do them both. We prescribe in all 50 states and if you become a patient, we take care of you from start to finish. Testing, treatment, optimization, and ongoing support. You don't have months or years to waste feeling this way. And you shouldn't have to keep throwing money at people who don't truly understand the thyroid and hormones. So if you're ready for real help, go to drami.com that'S-R-A-M I e.com and click book a call in the top right corner to schedule your thyroid and hormone solution. Call and just let us help you get your life back and be that badass human that you are meant to be, that you deserve to be. Now, of course we can't Leave out the thyroid. I can't believe I didn't start with the thyroid. But I wanted to cover the other non obvious bases first and then we'll get into hypothyroidism. So the thyroid, as we say all the time, is the master gland. It controls everything. So it's having that downstream effect on cortisol regulation. So if your thyroid is low and slow, it's going to basically mess up the way that you respond to stress. Your stress response is going to be much more sensitive where you will get stressed out, anxious, depressed over things that normally wouldn't have affected you that way. It's also going to, if the thyroid is low and slow, it's going to affect your hormones. So even if you're in your 20s, 30s, and you haven't gone through perimenopause and menopause, in addition to affecting your fertility, ladies, it's going to affect your hormonal profile. And that, like we already said, fluctuations, hormone fluctuations are stress. Your estrogen dips too low, maybe your progesterone goes in the tank, you're having some wonky cycles, all because of the thyroid. That is going to affect your hair as well. Thyroid disease or hypothyroidism also affects your circulation. So you're getting less blood and nutrients circulating and that's delivering nutrients to the follicle. If you're not having proper circulation, those nutrients are not getting to the hair follicle and your, your hair follicle will suffer if your thyroid is not being treated properly. So let's say you are on a boatload of T4 medication that is going to increase your reverse T3. Now, if you don't know all the different causes of reverse T3, we will link to that in the show notes as well, we have a podcast episode causes of reverse T3, elevator reverse T3. Reverse T3 is your survival mechanism. It goes up in order to put your body into survival mode to survive because our bodies are just so smart. And the only thing that converts to reverse T3 is T4. Now, I have some patients that don't convert their own T4. The T4 that your thyroid gland produces, they don't, they don't convert that at all properly and their reverse T3 is elevated. But nine times out of 10, it's because you are on a T4 only medication. You are on only NDT, natural desiccated thyroid medication. And I know you just went, What? I thought NDT was better. I'll get to that. You're on T4 only you're on NDT or you're on T4 with like a baby dose of T3. NDT is 80% T4. So even if you're working with a so called thyroid expert, integrative, functional, I've said this before, a lot of these so called thyroid experts, natural, integrated, functional, naturopathic, they'll put you on NDT only and that's 80% T4. So they put you on this NDT and then they crown themselves as if there's something special, not realizing that they just put you on 80% T4. And if you're not a good converter, then you're going to get worse. That might be a light bulb for many of you going off in your head right now. So too much T4 increasing reverse T3 also causes hair loss. And you know the reason why too. I'll go one step further, is because our bodies are so smart. Our bodies know that if we're trying to survive, you don't have to grow your hair if you're lying in the ICU or the ER. And this is a time when reverse T3 should be elevated because of our very smart bodies. If you're lying there fighting for your life, do you really think you need to grow hair? Like, do you need to lose weight? Do you need to make major decisions? Do you need to feel good and have energy? No, you need to lie there and live and survive and heal. Well, that's what reverse T3 does. When it's elevated, when we're trying to walk around, live life, it's not a good scenario. So elevated reverse T3, low thyroid function. Obviously. Obviously. Now I, I just kind of touched on birth control, but I want to go through some other pharmaceutical medications and I touched a little bit on antidepressants. I know I want to go through some other medications that can absolutely be contributing to HA loss. Blood thinners. Yes. Anti inflammatories like steroids, prednisone, beta blockers, channel blockers, chemotherapy, radiation. Of course, those are big ones. But how about those birth control pills and antidepressants? So birth control pills in and of themselves directly affect our thyroid, so we know that they can cause hypothyroidism. Birth control pills also tank your natural progesterone. So now we have all of these women on birth control pills and some of you are like 40s and 50s and your doctor's giving you BC birth control to fix your XYZ, whatever you went in for. And it's making you worse, by the way. It's a total band aid medication. So we bring in this synthetic hormone pill and it ends up completely destroying your ability to produce your own progesterone. Because most birth control pills are progestins. Now when we decrease our own progesterone, what ends up happening is we either become estrogen dominant or depending on your age, it can actually start affecting your estrogen too. Which is why putting a 40 year old, premenopausal, perimenopausal, menopausal woman on birth control is pretty much a medical crime in my eyes because it does so many things to the body and it does so many things to you and your quality of life. We know as women, if we don't have our hair, if we don't have confidence in how we look, if we're gaining weight, that's not good. Quality of life right there. And that can all go back to the birth control pill, by the way. Now we also have the tie in. This is why I'm bouncing around, so hopefully you can follow me. Because everything is so beautifully connected and interconnected, we have to make these ties. So we can also tie in low thyroid function with irregular blood glucose. Okay. And then we can tie that to cortisol too. So bear with me when your thyroid isn't working well, hypo low and slow, not being properly treated. So if you're not being properly treated, I don't care if you're on medication for thyroid, for hypothyroidism or Hashimoto, if it's not optimizing you, then it's just stupid. You might, might as well not be on anything. So the wrong treatment is just as bad as no treatment whatsoever. So let's say you're not being treated, you're walking around hypo, you're walking around with Hashimoto's and and, or you're on T4 only or on NDT only and your reverse T3 is high and you're just in this hypothyroid state. Even if your reverse T3 is normal and you're still in this hypothyroid state, that's going to come back and affect everything downstream. Glucose management, your body's blood glucose response and insulin response to food changes. And what I mean by that is when you're in that hypothyroid state, it doesn't matter if you're eating carnivore, if you're eating keto, if you're eating chicken and broccoli, your body will pump out more insulin in Response to that food and your blood glucose regulation will be irregular. That then causes inflammation because high insulin and being in an insulin resistant state or being type 2 diabetic causes a huge amount of inflammation in your body. That inflammation will affect the hair follicle in and of itself. Outside of autoimmune, outside of nutritional deficiencies, outside of low protein intake, outside of viruses, outside of stress, outside of anything else we talked about that inflammation from high insulin will directly affect the hair follicle. Now we also have that cortisol tie in. So when we are stressed out, cortisol is also causing a blood sugar rise and causing more insulin to be released from the pancreas in response to the food that we eat. So that stacking effect with being hypothyroid and then moving into any kind of stressor. And again, let's review because when I say stressor, I don't want you to think major life stressor. Yeah, it can be caring from it for an elderly parent, caring for a sick child. It could be a divorce, it could be a job change. But it doesn't have to be. It could be something as simple as dealing with a co worker who's an ass. It could be that there's always this underlying tension between you and your spouse. It can be any kind of stressor. It could be that you exercise too damn much because you're trying to lose the weight that you can't lose because your thyroid's in the toilet. You see how all of this is connected. And any kind of stressor is going to trigger blood glucose disregulation. And that in turn is going to go back to what we just said about inflammation and affecting the hair follicle. Now here's something else, ladies. Sometimes as I talk, I think of other things. Inflammation, elevated FSH, follicle stimulating hormone. When FSH goes above a 25, we get more inflamed. FSH goes above 25 because we don't have enough estrogen. When we start using bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, we are able to add in estradiol and lower our fsh. So again, tie in, tie in. Everything ties so beautifully together. I think we have run the gamut of everything. Now your question is, what do I do? What do I do about this hair loss? So number one, you have to get your thyroid fixed. That that is where you start 100 million percent. You start with the thyroid because as you can see from our discussion today, that affects everything. That that far reaching hand, those fingers that stretch out across your body, into every, every organ, every system, every pathway is going to come back to the thyroid. Circulation, detoxification, nutrient delivery, blood sugar regulation, insulin regulation, cortisol regulation, hormone regulation starts with a thyroid. Then we have to go into bioidentical hormone replacement. Get your hormones optimized. For God's sake, do not walk around with low hormones. Get stress under control. Do things if you are insulin resistant or type 2 diabetic. Do things like berberine. Blood sugar fixer. Get your protein intake up 1 gram per pound of lean body mass per day. Add in amino acids. My favorite is kion aminos. We have discount codes everywhere. If you go to getkeon.com you can use the code Dr. Amy. That's going to save you some cash. And use protein fixer because power protein fixer. You can do two scoops of that. That's going to give you 40 grams of amazing amino acid packed beef isolate protein. You want to take B12, you want to address your low ferritin, you want to address all the things that can affect autoimmune conditions like low vitamin D, like low magnesium, low selenium, low iodine. Iodine's actually been directly tied back to hair loss and hair thinning. You want to add in black cumin seed oil to reduce inflammation and to push down all autoimmune antibodies including alopecia areata, circling back to the hormones. You also want to make sure that your testosterone and your androgens are not too high. So if you are using pellets, you might find that it's jacking up your androgen levels and that is causing hair loss. So let's look at pcos. Polycystic ovarian syndrome. Anyone that has POS, that has the androgenic effect of POS knows that you can grow a beard while losing your hair at the same time. It's not fun. So that high androgen state that is either caused from polycystic ovarian syndrome from dosing or testosterone too high or from using pellets can also cause hair loss. And the pellets, I mean that's the biggest thing that I see when women come into the practice to get properly treated with their hormones and they're on pellets, most of them have lost their hair. Like that's the biggest thing that we see with that huge spike in testosterone with the pellets and then the, the aftermath of the crash. But it's that huge spike into male levels that will cause hair loss. DHT, dihydrotestosterone. So that high androgen pushes over down that 5 alpha reductase pathway to dihydrotestosterone. And that's where we will see the male pattern baldness, which in females equates to hair thinning and usually hair loss at the back of the head. So you can add in DHT fixer if your DHT is high, if you're on pellets, or if you're on any kind of testosterone therapy and you're losing hair. So thyroid hormones, ferritin, cortisol, stress, autoimmune supporting the immune system, supporting hormones, but making sure your androgenic hormones are not too high. Viruses, illness, sickness. I think we've run the gamut. Now the big question is, should I even bother doing the biohacking stuff? Tools, gadgets, red light caps, all of that for my hair? The answer is yes and no. So I have experimented on myself, I've experimented on some of my patients just for fun. I'm like, let's try this. You let me know how it goes. So what we know is that dermal rolling and the dermal roller for the scalp is not like the one for the face. You want a teeny tiny one for your face. You want a bigger dermal roller for the scalp because our scalp is, is hardy. So we dermal roll the scalp and this is a great time to put on peptides like ghkcu, copper peptide, you can put it right on the scalp. There are different hair serums out there that you can apply directly on the scalp. So you dermal roll, you apply these serums. And most of the serums have growth factors. GHKCU as a peptide is amazing. Go ahead and look that up, dive down that rabbit hole. It is absolutely amazing for your hair, your skin, for repairing wounds, and then you can hit it with a red light. Now, I don't really like the red light caps because all of the colleagues I've spoken with who use red light caps say they're not strong enough. They're just not. And then you end up spending thousands of dollars on this red light cap. Just get a red light. So I like Mitolux. I talk about that a ton because they have a healing mode. Then they have UVV in it, UVB in it. That helps with hormones, that helps with anxiety, your mood, all of that. So I just put the red light directly on my hair. So I will set the red light, my metal luxe box on my vanity, and I'll just stick my head up against it and hit those parts that might be thinning that might be breaking. Or if I do develop a bald spot, God forbid I would do that. I wouldn't bother with a red light. Caps, that's just me. Then there are advanced therapies like prp, Platelet rich plasma where they take your blood, they spin it and they can micro inject it into your scalp. Don't do this yourself. Has to be done by a professional. So PRP on the scalp also improves hair. There's a variety of different medical treatments out there that if, if your hair loss is very severe, then of course we advise going that route of a dermatological. Dermatological intervention with a professional, possibly hair loss clinic. But just be careful, you know, don't get roped into spending boatloads of money. I know it's easy to get roped into that because it's your hair and you start freaking out when you're losing it. But don't waste money. Do your research. Try all of the remedies that we just talked about today first, for goodness sake. And only spend the money if you absolutely have to. If you're in a severe situation with your hair. And then of course I didn't even mention the no brainer stuff like don't over bleach your hair, don't overheat your hair, don't over style your hair. Now if you're like me and you have to be on interviews and camera and stages and all of that, you have to have your hair done pretty much all the freaking time. You just want to be gentle, use that heat protecting spray, get a treatment at the salon. All of those no brainer things. I didn't, I didn't want to go into too deeply on the show. I wanted to go over more of the biohacking medical side of things, of hair loss. But just be smart about it, save your money and do all of the simple things that are in your control first. Then we can expand and get deeper into our treatments using peptides. Using things even like BPC157TB500 growth hormone peptides. Like if a Morellin can improve hair, that's a little bit more advanced. But if you want to dive down that rabbit hole to my episode I did with Dylan Jelli, he is a peptide expert. You can go back and listen to that because we did talk about the growth hormone peptides. That might be something you're interested in adding into your repertoire. If you're really in a desperate state and you're one step away from a dermatological intervention and doing something more severe So I truly hope this helps you fix your hair loss. I know it's hard, it's mentally hard, and all we want is our beautiful head of hair back. I get it. It's really mentally difficult for many, many people. But just go through this show again, replay it, stop it, pause it, take notes and make sure that you are checking all the boxes. And if you're like, you know what, I am checking all the boxes, I have checked all the boxes, then maybe it is time to step it up a notch. 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