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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about the difference between normal hair loss versus

pathological hair loss. Now you have hundreds of thousands of hairs growing on your head at any one given time.

And the life cycle of a hair is between two and five years.

In a normal situation, an average person will lose between 50 to 100 strands of hair every

single day.

So the way that you would figure this out is you just

rub your fingers through your hair with a gentle tug, and you should see anywhere between one

and ten hairs in your hand. And that is normal. But if you keep doing the same spot over and over

and it keeps coming out, there's several reasons for this.

The biggest reason is there's some type of hormonal change going on. Let's say you just gave birth,

or you are going through menopause. This means that your estrogen is high and your progesterone is

low. Also, if you have high levels of a hormone called dh-ht, which is a powerful form

of testosterone, that can cause hair loss, and that condition is called alopecia. And then if your thyroid

is low, that can also cause hair loss. Most hypothyroid conditions are autoimmune, and that would be Hashimoto's.

And so that's not really a true thyroid problem. It's an immune problem. I put some links down below

for more information on that topic. Now, if your cortisol is too high, because your stress is too high, that can also cause

hair loss.

Also, you can lose your hair with certain medications, especially birth control pills, which, again,

is the added estrogen, antidepression medication, as well as anti-anxiety medication, can also cause

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