Natural treatments for hair loss

Article by HairlossTalk.com

Dr. Marty Sawaya delves into some common nutritional and environtmental causes of men and women's hair loss, and exactly where herbal remedies, supplementation, and nutrition come in to a logically and scientifically structured hair loss regimen...

How much? How often? Who knows!

The overall problem I have with the herbal, nutritional products is that companies can make these products in any way they want, without any federal regulation governing them. So, “anything goes”, they are not regulated by the FDA or any government agency. As long as they watch their claims (even so they cross the line making outrageous claims), the FDA won’t come after them. I have found many of these products to vary in potency, purity, consistency from batch to batch so that you don’t know what you are getting, leading sometimes to real safety hazards, because they are considered as nutritional/herbal supplements and not thought to be harmful.

There have been cases where people get sick, and have bad side effects from taking these supplements bought at their local vitamin store or any other retailer. People also need to be aware of the drug interactions these products may have with any prescription drugs they are taking. Many herbal/nutritional agents are taken at high doses with multiple frequency thru the day, and they really haven’t been tested to their claims, not to mention, purity, concentration, consistency, any other additives from batch to batch.

Herbal products for Hair Loss


I’m always asked about nutritional and herbal supplements and if they help hair loss. The problem is that so many herbal remedies make “hair” claims and very few to none have undergone rigorous clinical trial testing. From a medical perspective, it is known and pretty well accepted that sudden weight loss, or crash dieting, loss of specific nutrients, such as B-vitamins, proteins, etc. from fad dieting, can initiate a telogen effluvium, or "hair shedding" process that can lasts months.

People don’t usually correlate the hair shedding to the diet changes or nutritional changes because the hair shedding doesn’t occur until a few months later, similar to a postpartum effluvium (shedding) that women experience 2 to 3 months after childbirth. For most patients experiencing hair loss, it is best to do a thorough history of what happened 1 year ago, 6 months ago, or 3 months ago with regard to immunizations, exposure to any illnesses, fevers, diet/nutritional changes, etc. A lot of times, you can find a culprit in the basket that started the process.

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