Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness. I'm Jolene Carlson. I'm a licensed

nutritionist with a master's in human nutrition and functional medicine. Today, on Dishing Up Nutrition,

we are discussing what you can do nutritionally to avoid thinning hair. Join me as our co-host is Kara Carper,

who is a certified nutrition specialist with a

master's in holistic health. Good morning, Kara. Good morning. Great to be here with you today,

Jolene. This is going to be a good show. Yeah, this is fun. I'm excited. So if you're listening and you

are experiencing hair loss, we just want you to know that you're not alone. It's estimated that

50% of women will experience hair loss at some point. Usually it's a little bit more towards

perimenopause or menopause, but it can certainly occur in younger years as well. We have to ask,

what are some of the common causes of hair loss for women? It may surprise you

that there are actually many nutritional deficiencies that can cause not only thinning of your

hair, but also hair loss. Now, one major cause of hair loss is certain vitamin deficiencies.

Now, these often happen after a woman is following a particularly restrictive,

maybe a low calorie, low-fat diet, often with the goal of losing weight

and wanting to lose weight a little bit rapidly.

So really, Carrie, you're saying basically all of us at some point

in our life, when we fall into that whole, oh, I can lose, yeah, the diet up and downs.

The diet mentality. Exactly. And I think we have all been there at certain points in our lives

because it's such a prominent message that is still with us, unfortunately. But you know the ones I'm talking about,

the plans that advertise lose 30 pounds and 30 days. Plans like that, they just do not

contain enough food and enough of the necessary nutrients that are going to support adequate

hair growth. Later in the show, we will share some of those key nutrients

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