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Hey, you're on air with Ella. And today I am joined by Dr. Alan Bauman, and I am really pleased to

have you here. Alan, we are talking about something we have never talked about on the show before. Please tell us before we jump in. Who are you? And what do you do? Well, Ella, thanks for having me. Yes, I'm Dr. Allen Bauman. I'm a full-time board-certified hair restoration physician. And I have the great pleasure of helping people maintain, enhance, and restore their own living and growing hair.

That's my passion to eliminate hair loss and to provide beautiful hair for all of our patients.

We're there to fulfill the mission of protect your own and enhance your own living and

growing hair. Because hair is a very emotional organ, as you probably know, and I can't

believe you waited this long, you know, to talk to your audience about hair.

I mean, for many years, you just think hair loss is something that happens to men, A, but then B,

you start to realize that hair and hormones, like, it's all tied together, and everyone, this is an

everyone issue. Everyone needs to know this. So I'm really pleased to be chatting with you about it today.

I want to talk about the causes. I want to talk about the role hormones play. I want to talk about

the role nutrition plays. Any tips you have for us, my goal is to keep as few of us from

needing to be patience, Alan, as possible. I have no doubt that you are not suffering from a lack of

demand. Well, you're right about that. But the good news is that there's a lot of things you can do if you're noticing some hair thinning. And obviously, it is pretty pervasive. You know, men and women could have hair loss. It's obviously more visible in men. So, you know, if you can see it in men a lot more easily because it's a receding hair line or the

developing a bald spot in the crown, maybe had an uncle, a dad, or grandfather who was dealing

with hair loss or a sibling, you know, maybe it's a significant other perhaps. But in women,

it happens a little bit more subtly. And so there's about, let's say, 80 million Americans out

there that are suffering with hair loss. It's almost 50-50,

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