Alopecia Awareness

Did you know?

Alopecia is one of the top reasons women are losing their hair AND September is National Alopecia Awareness Month. 

Alopecia areata is a disease that happens when the immune system attacks hair follicles and causes hair loss. Hair follicles are the structures in the skin that form hair. While hair can be lost from any part of the body, alopecia areata usually affects the head and face.

It leads to stages of hair loss anywhere from thinning hair, to complete baldness. 

Most alopecia cases leave women feeling perplexed as to why it’s happening. Some are a result of simple malnutrition. Some are caused by environmental toxicity, like the water that comes from your faucet, or chemicals you inadvertently interact with. Stress is also known to be a big culprit for this type of hair loss as well. 

In our many years of experience with this, we will be honest and share that we haven’t seen full solutions or treatments that fully work for those experiencing alopecia. However, we always like to remind you that we are not medical experts! Most of our clients have tried it all and most don’t have any kind of solution, so we don’t want to give false promises!

But, here are some things that you can do to support your entire well-being as a whole, which in turn COULD affect how you witness your hair loss journey unfolding in a positive way in the milder cases of alopecia. 

• Drinking from a copper water bottle - This can help with iron absorption in your body, which has been found to help your energy and hair loss.
• Changing your diet - Having a functional medicine doc helps you figure out what food isn’t loving your body back
• Adding supplements like collagen and iron - these are both known to help your energy, joints, skin elasticity, hair shine, and nail strength! 
• Investing in a water filter for your home or faucets or shower heads - Depending on where you live, find out if your water has been known to affect people’s hair in your community! You’d be surprised with what you’ll learn when everyone gets talking! And see what water systems others have found helpful for their health! 
• Ditch the toxins and switch to clean products - Choose shampoos and hair products, even soaps and creams, without parabens, sulfates, aluminum, or synthetic fragrances or dyes! Your skin is your largest organ, and it absorbs SO MUCH. Don’t put anything on your body that you wouldn’t put IN your body! 
• Add some self-care into your routine - Doing things like red light therapy, or infrared sauna therapy can help both your nervous system and potentially hair loss! 

Some alopecia patients are treated with more drastic measures such as steroid shots from your dermatologist. But again, from what we have seen from our own clients, unfortunately, most cases don’t seem to have relief or a cure at all. 

Whatever someone’s alopecia journey may be, we want to help bring awareness to it during National Alopecia Awareness Month.

We truly mean that we hope one day there is a cure for everyone affected, even if it means it puts us out of business in the wig industry! 

But in the meantime, we’re here to help if you or someone you know is dealing with alopecia, to help you feel beautiful again inside and out like our clients do!