50% of women experience hair loss in their lifetime, and two to three percent of women are affected

by female pattern hair loss by the age of 30. Almost half of women start losing their hair by the

age of 50, and half of women experience hair loss after giving birth, as well as after menopause.

Today, we are going to be talking with Melissa Anger.

She is my guest.

We are here together live in Salt Lake City.

She is an associate trictologist and a licensed cosmetologist and barber of more than 24 years.

She is married with three kids and experienced her own hair loss

after being diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis shortly after the birth of her youngest child.

She has become passionate about the subject of hair loss as a whole and strives to give people

hope by helping them determine the root cause of

their own hair loss. I think that's a little bit of a pun right there, the root cause of their

own hair loss and become successful long term in improving their hair loss and hair growth.

Melissa, welcome to the Lindsay Elmore show. Thank you very much. I'm so excited to talk to you. I'm so

excited to be here. You and I met on social media. You did a TikTok where we, where you regrammed

one of the one of the reels that I had made about how COVID can cause a change in cortisol levels,

which can get into the hair follicle and start to

cause hair loss. And as we've been talking as we've been getting ready to start shooting,

you have revealed so many other root causes of hair loss. So start us out and teach us,

tell us about your own journey. What happened?

How did you get into researching and learning about hair loss?

And then we're going to start talking about all these different mechanisms of action and how we can turn them around.

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