Hey everybody, welcome to the hair game. August was national hair loss month. I know that this is September,

but we were thinking about hair loss in August and this episode made it into the pipeline to be dropped in

September. That's just the way it goes. Hair loss, obviously, is very important in our community because we don't want our clients to lose their hair.

I am exhibit number one for somebody who benefited from the solutions that are out there for those whose hair is thinning.

I think most of you have seen how much hair I have. If you follow me on Instagram, I have a ton of hair. My Barbara always complains about it.

But of course, that wasn't always the case. And that's why I'm doing this episode. About 10 years ago when I was in my early 30s, my hairdresser Larry mentioned me that I was thinning on my crown and my

front. It was surprising because I never noticed and I was young, certainly too young to lose my hair, I thought.

But after he mentioned it, I sought out a dermatologist.

It was actually a recommendation from a friend of mine who had had a procedure done.

And he put me in contact with this doctor and the doctor put me on propitia and rogain

monoxidil and it worked amazingly well. I get into this conversation constantly and I'm

constantly surprised how few people know how easy it can be to at least attempt to prevent hair thinning. So we get into it all right here with my current

dermatologist and friends, Dr. Hal White's Buck and nurse practitioner, Emily Kraft. They both work

at the Calabasasas Dermatology Center just north of Los Angeles, California. Okay, let's start by you guys introducing yourselves.

Emily first.

Hi, I'm Emily Kraft, nurse practitioner at the Calabasasas Dermatology Center.

I'm Hal White's Buck, Board Certified Dermatologist at the Calabasas Dermatology Center.

Very good. And you guys deal a lot with hair loss. We do. Okay, very good.

So the purpose of us sitting down and talking and us recording it is to counsel

hair stylists everywhere on what to recognize and and what to tell their clients when they start noticing that their clients are

losing their hair. I was first made aware of my hair loss by my hairstylist Larry. Shout out to

Larry in the Studio City. Larry said one day, and this was probably going back 10 years, he's like,

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