Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones and teach you how to have healthy periods.

Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your

healing journey.

We hope you enjoy it.

All right. In this episode, we are taking a deep dive into what causes hair loss and how we can support healthy hair growth.

And it's one of those things where, like most women's health issues, it's more complicated.

It's a little bit more complex than we might prefer.

Rarely is there one sole reason for hair loss. It is usually multiple things that are feeding

into that main issue. And if I take a really common example that I see with hair loss,

and that's hypothyroidism. And so say you are not making adequate thyroid hormone.

So the main thing we think about is like, okay, well, I'll just take thyroid hormone,

and then I shouldn't have any more hair loss issues.

But the underlying question then becomes, what's driving the hypothyroidism?

Right.

More often than not, it's not just one thing. There are a few different areas you want to consider, like, what's driving the hypothyroidism, right? More often than not, it's not just one thing. There are a few

different areas you want to consider, like, what's that person eating? Are they getting enough

food in in general? Are they getting nutrient-dense foods? Maybe they have a nutrient deficiency

that it's actually impacting how their thyroid's functioning. So just taking the thyroid hormone might not

solve all the problems. And then, of course, stress. Stress plays a huge role in how we are making

and utilizing thyroid hormone. So we don't want to ignore that either, especially if you don't

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