hair loss

[Shenow]

Any suggestions of products to help reduce hair loss?

[Jaydee1507 Administrator]

Hair loss can be due to low thyroid hormoenes and/or low ferritin which is very common in hypo people.

What are your latest thyroid results to include TSH, FT4 & Ft3?

What are your latest vitasmin results - ferritin, folate, B12 & D3?

What are you supplementing with?

You didnt respond to a post recommending similar some time ago: healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[Shenow in reply to Jaydee1507]

Thanks for your reply

TSH = 1,04 (0,27-4,20) 2024

T4 = 1,921 (0,550-4,780) 2021

T3 = 4,4 (3,8-6,0) 2018

Ferritine = 50 (13-150) 2024

B12 = 570 (197-771) 2024

D3 never tested

I take: Magnesium Citrate 880mg per day, Vitamin B Complex, Iron 40mg per day.

I am on 63mg of L-Thyroxine Henning per day.

[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to Shenow]

Have you given me 3 results taken in different years? We can only compare results if they are taken in the same blood draw. Sggest you get a full panel run with TSH, FT4 & FT3.

You do have room for improvement in your TSH at the moment. Underr 1 might be better than over for you.

How much B12 & folate are in your B complex and which form of vitamin are they? Are they methylated type which is the active form?

I have included a label from Thorne Basic B which shows the amounts of vitamins you need to be taking to get your levels to optimal. Your B12 is only just above the grey area and its a serum B12 as opposed to active B12 which is more accurate.

Your ferritin is less than optimal.

Ferritin should be around 90 - 100 for best use of thyroid hormone. Suggest increasing iron rich foods in diet and eating them often. Chicken livers, pate, red meat etc

Link with ideas for dietary iron:

dailyiron.net/

Its essential to test vit D as most people are deficient. Can you get that run?

No result for folate.

[Shenow in reply to Jaydee1507]

Thank you for your advice and yes the results are from different years they won’t test everything here regularly. I’ll see what I can do.

[Regenallotment]

Mine stopped falling out and thickened up dramatically after 3 months on Thorne Basic B, D3 with K2, and eating liver 3 times a week, heme supplements and then when the liver got too much Simply heme Iron Repair from 3 arrows.

In the same time period I started Levo and worked up to 75 and then 100mcg a day.

No shampoo or treatment makes the slightest bit of difference for me. It’s all nutritional and linked to optimising thyroid hormone levels.

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[Ellie-Louise]

Of course I have no idea of your age, but myself, I am years after menopause hit, however a few months ago I started reading up on hair loss and what can be done about it.

I read that at this stage of life when oestrogen levels have been taken over by testosterone, that it is the main reason why older women find their hair thinning so the solution was to take DHT blockers.

I looked them up and bought a pack, and to my amazement it seems to be working because I appear to have baby hairs growing back in places it had disappeared. There is certainly far, far less in the plug hole trap when I wash my hair these days, there always used to be a lot more.

I’m not saying it will work for you but I intend to keep using them in the hopes that eventually my hair will start to recover even more.