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so being underweight literally stopped you from bleeding?! holy sh*t.Anorexia causes hair loss. I’ve been there, though at the time is was Telogen Effluvium. You do need adequate body fat, believe me. When I started losing my hair for real in 2014 I’d come off th pill earlier that year, gone through a breakup and lost like 8kg. That’s when my hormones bottomed out. I dedicated that whole year to gaining weight and getting healthy. Beginning of 2015 I got a period back after gaining a healthy amount of weight. However, because of the hypothalamic and pituitary issues, the periods were anovulatory, ie, no egg production/release. In short, you have to have adequate body fat for estrogen and other sex hormones, but you also need to have a hypothalamus and pituitary gland that wants to work haha
I think my extreme regimen has slowed my metabolism. I don't feel as hungry all the time and I gained a few pounds and Ive never been able to gain past a certain weight my whole life no matter how much I ate.