287: Your Guide to Preventative Hair Thinning Treatments
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Five Minute Friday, I am talking about solutions to the common problem of male and female pattern hair loss. Hair loss affects up to 50% of women and can generate feelings of low self-esteem and anxiety from a perception of diminished attractiveness. In this podcast, I introduce you to, KD Vibrance Hair Kit! This holy grail product reduces the production of DHT from the surface of the scalp. It's free of sulfate, removes scalp debris, and helps maintain the look of cosmetic camouflage and hair density. Tune in for more tips and trick on how you can prevent hair thinning and regain your luscious hair health back!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K., Secrets of a Plastic |
| 0:18.4 | Surgeon, and today on the podcast, let's talk all about female |
| 0:21.9 | pattern hair loss. |
| 0:24.2 | And if you're a woman, you know how devastating this can be. |
| 0:28.1 | During this pandemic, it has been epidemic. |
| 0:31.7 | The amount of hair loss complaints that I've seen from my women clients and followers |
| 0:35.9 | has been incredibly high. |
| 0:38.6 | It's the amount of stress and cortisol levels coursing through us that's causing acute |
| 0:43.6 | sudden hair loss as well as kind of chronic gradual hair loss now that we're in month 10 |
| 0:48.8 | of the pandemic. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm sure guys are suffering too, but being a girl, I'm going to talk about female pattern |
| 0:54.4 | hair loss primarily. A lot of this also applies to men, though. Did you know that only 45% of |
| 1:02.8 | women go through life with a full head of hair? The rest of us, the other half, suffer from |
| 1:08.3 | chronic hair loss. And if we look at any population of women, we'll find that almost 60% of them have |
| 1:16.5 | thinning hair loss and density changes of the hair. |
| 1:21.3 | Many people have medical reasons for hair loss, and you definitely have to see your internist |
| 1:26.3 | to see if you're having problems related |
| 1:28.1 | to anemia, vitamin D deficiency, thyroid problems, or autoimmune disease. Those would be the top |
| 1:35.4 | four things that we look at. And I think in my patients in the 20 to 50 age group, anemia and |
| 1:41.9 | iron deficiency is actually one of the most common and prevalent |
| 1:45.7 | problems. It's because we have heavy periods, we have fibroids, we have childbirth, we have |
| 1:52.5 | chronic stress, crash dieting. There's so many reasons that we don't get enough iron in our |
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