Root Alchemist

Your medication might be the missing piece in your hair loss.

A lot of people never connect their shedding back to a medication, especially when it started months after they began taking the new medication. GLP-1s, birth control, antidepressants, blood pressure medications, and thyroid medication adjustments are all linked to shedding, sometimes with a significant delay between starting or changing doses and noticing the hair loss.

This isn’t a reason to stop a medication that’s working for you! It’s information that helps us build the right support plan around what your body is actually dealing with while taking a medication that may be critical for your wellbeing.

Every piece helps tell the bigger picture.

Sure bloodwork is helpful, but it’s a snapshot of your body right now

Hair follicle test gives me 3 months and starts to show me patterns

DNA tells me how to help you with the patterns I’m seeing.

Let’s actually listen to your body and get a plan based on real data from your body.

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If someone tells you your hair loss has ONE cause, be careful. Sure it MIGHT be 1 thing, but more often I see clients with multiple issues affecting the hair.

Here’s what I actually see when I look at the whole picture:

1. Ferritin low. Follicles aren’t getting the oxygen they need.

2. Gut issues. So the supplements you’re paying for aren’t absorbing.

3. Poor sleep. Your body does its repair work in deep sleep.

4. Nervous system stuck in survival mode so hair isn’t getting prioritized.

5. And yes. Sometimes DHT.

Usually it’s 3 or 4 of these talking at the same time.

That’s why one fix doesn’t stick.

Find all of them. Then keep the plan simple.

One cause is easy to sell. It’s rarely the whole story.

If you’ve “tried everything” and nothing stuck, this is usually why. Comment ROOT to find all your reasons.

The most common question I get - “How often should I be shampooing my hair?”

There is so much misinformation out there. After looking at hundreds of scalps here’s the deal - you should be washing every day or every other day.

If you are washing your body = you need to wash your scalp.

You sweat and get build-up every single day on your scalp. And your hair helps to hold it in.

I get it - it’s more work, but if you want a healthy scalp and healthy hair you need to clean it.

Bad sleep shows up on your head before it shows up on your face. More hair in the shower drain. A scalp that’s greasy by noon or itchy for no clear reason. Ends that look tired even right after a cut.

Your body does a lot of its repair work while you sleep, and hair is pretty low on its list. When you’re running on five hours, your body takes care of the important stuff first. Your hair gets the leftovers.

I’m not going to tell you HAVE to get eight hours every night. You’ve got kids, or early shifts, or a brain that starts planning next week at 11pm. I get it. But I see this pattern in my chair all the time, and a few small changes to your evening can do more for your hair than another new shampoo.

Send this to the friend who answers texts at 2am. And if your hair has been talking, book a Hair & Scalp Analysis so we can find out what else it’s been trying to say.

I have bad habits, like my coffee that I drink too much of.

But when it comes to my hair these are things you’ll NEVER see me to as a Trichologist

✨leaving product in for days - that’s just sitting on your scalp not allowing hair to grow and causing irritation
✨ going to bed with wet hair - this leads to scalp irritation and broken frizzy hair
✨ I am ALWAYS on a vitamin D - if you’re low in this, you can have excessive hair shedding and a weakened immune system
✨ shampoo every day, sometimes every other day - if you’re washing your body, you need to wash your scalp.
✨ sleep is critical for a body to function well
✨ food is fuel and how you fuel your body affects how it works