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Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Today we're going to talk about her loss in a very common factor that seems to be at

the bottom of just about every different type of hair loss. Now, as you may know, there's many

different causes of hair loss. You have nutritional factors that might be deficient. You also have

testosterone forming into a very powerful form of this androgen called DHT that can bind with

the hair receptor and inhibit the growth. So you have that. And then you have another cause

which could be autoimmune, where your hair root cells are attacking itself, preventing the

growth. But I can't stress this enough, but the single most common factor among all of these

is stress. Now, I'm talking about several different types of stress. The most damaging stress

to your hair is emotional loss, okay? Like a loss of a loved one, a divorce can be devastating

to your adrenals. So you have that. But you also have other types of stress, like

sustained chronic stress for some reason. You have environmental stresses. You have stresses in

the world that are affecting you. You have family stresses, relationship stresses. You have

stress from overtraining while you're exercising. You have stress going through pregnancy.

You have stress while you're going through some viral infection. You can also be very stressed

if your sleep is not good because the lack of sleep can really put your body under stress.

So there's many, many different types of stresses. But what's interesting about stress that affects

your hair is that it's nearly always delayed. Now, normally when you have a physical problem

of some sort, you're going to identify the cause and the symptom pretty quick because

the underlying cause usually happens just before you get the symptom. But the problem with

hair loss is there's usually a delay between one, two, and even three months before the time of

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