Eat Your Way to Healthy Hair: Hair Loss Tips

Julie Olson [00:00:02]:

Every day we need to detoxify things, and we can’t do that if we’re not getting enough good, healthy water on our system. Our hair needs to be hydrated too. And again, that hydration, if we’re dehydrated, we’re gonna eat more food. Because if you’re dehydrated, you get hungry when you’re just really dehydrated. But it’s gonna first go to your vital organ and your hair lasts, and then your hair is not going to be healthy. It needs that hydration for detoxification.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:00:44]:

Welcome to HairPod, the podcast where you get to hear real people talk about their hair journeys. I’m your host, Kevin Rolston, and each week I get to interview people from different walks of life whose lives have been touched by hair loss in some form or fashion. Many of our guests have experienced hair loss themselves and found a way to get their confidence and their hair back. We’ve all heard the phrase, you are what you eat. And it’s no secret that your diet can impact everything from your energy levels to your skin health. That’s why this week on HairPod, we brought nutritionist Julie Olson on the show to talk about how to maximize your hair growth and minimize your hair loss. Starting with the food that you eat, we’re going to be talking about the things that you absolutely must have in your diet for healthy hair growth and what foods might be contributing to your hair thinning, especially if you’re eating them regularly. Julie speaks on this topic as a triple board certified nutritionist, but she’s also somebody who’s experienced hair loss herself.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:01:46]:

It was her own hair thinning that tipped her off that she needed to make some changes in her lifestyle. And when she did, she noticed a big difference in her health and in her hair.

 

Julie Olson [00:02:01]:

The whole journey into nutrition and functional medicine started really with a phone call. I was working as a senior media research analyst at Warner Brothers, and I got the call that my mother had stage three breast cancer. So that was the caveat or the whole thing that started my journey. I came back to Denver to support her and got more interested why she got so sick and then realized that I was neglecting my own health. And when my hair started falling out in clumps, I really made that pivot and quit my media career. And I haven’t looked back since. I’m now I have like four certifications and been doing it, what, 14 years now? Yeah, I love it.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:02:47]:

Okay, very cool. That’s great. Now tell me, how did you make that connection? Because you’re losing your hair in clumps. But when did it finally click that? Maybe it’s the nutrition. And how did you find the source of what was causing your hair loss?

 

Julie Olson [00:03:00]:

Well, it took a while but was discouraged because want to, you know, do anything unnatural. And I was also stressed and, you know, living a really fast lifestyle. So I not only for myself, but for my mother, that medicine can be food, the right medicine, and it also could be poison.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:03:27]:

Well, one of the things that’s going on today that people are talking about is the increasing cancer rates in younger people. How is that affected by our diet? How much of it is environmental could have to do with some of the pharmaceuticals that we’re taking today. And what can we do to correct these numbers? You know, just as we’re looking at the cancer rates in younger people, I would imagine that your hair is really no different. So if our medicines, our diet and the environment can affect our cancer rates, I imagine they’re doing the same thing with our hair. So what could be some of these environmental things or maybe some of the foods that could be triggering our hair loss? I think a good place to start would be to talk about the building blocks of nutrition that make up healthy hair. So Julie, can you take us down this path a little bit and tell us what we’re going to be looking for here?

 

Julie Olson [00:04:17]:

The number one building block is protein. Protein is made of keratin, and that’s the adequate protein that’s essential for the structure and growth of hair. Okay, so, but amino. Yeah, that’s number one. Really take a minute though, to break down protein because there’s different types of protein and proteins are made up of amino acids. And the, the body uses about 20 different amino acids to build protein. And we can make amino acids ourselves, but we only get nine of them. And those are known as essential amino acids.

 

Julie Olson [00:04:55]:

And generally animal proteins are known as complete proteins, meaning they’re made up of all nine essential amino acids. Wherever you’re getting protein now, protein is poultry, eggs, fish, seafood, beans. Those are main ones.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:05:15]:

But could you say those for me one more time? That’s a very important thing to hear. What, what are those again? What foods?

 

Julie Olson [00:05:20]:

Okay. Think of even wild game. But you know, if you’re gonna eat red meat, try to eat grass fed meat. But poultry, eggs, fish, fish and shellfish, beans, also known as legumes. And then, you know, there’s plant proteins as well. But those are the, the main per se animal proteins that have a complete amino acid profile.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:05:45]:

Okay.

 

Julie Olson [00:05:46]:

But you know, it’s count when you are eating, like, ulta. Processed animal foods such as hot dogs or chicken nuggets that have those unhealthy fats and a bunch of sodium. I mean, overall, for health. But the general rule is to get 20 grams of protein at every meal, and that’s size of your palm of your hand. Okay, yeah, you know, think chicken, but. And the minimum of 60 grams a day. But ultimately, especially if you’re struggling with hair loss, getting 100 grams a day would be even better. And at that point, you know, whether it’s animal or our plant protein, just get it in.

 

Julie Olson [00:06:25]:

You know that it’s very important because that’s what our hair is made of.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:06:28]:

Now, is there a really big difference? Let’s say we’re talking to a vegan or a vegetarian right now. Is the beef and the animal proteins, is that superior to hair health than the proteins that you can get from your vegetables?

 

Julie Olson [00:06:41]:

Yes, it is. It’s also much higher profile levels. And again, it goes back to those amino acids. You don’t get all the essential amino acids from plant proteins.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:06:51]:

Okay. And is there a ranking when it comes to your meats? Because I’ve heard people talk about regulating how much red meat you’re eating. And your chickens and your fish seem to be a little bit healthier. Would you rank it that way as well, for hair health?

 

Julie Olson [00:07:05]:

Yeah, I mean, I would say that. I mean, I can rank them for you, but just eating whole foods that aren’t processed, I mean, you can even get processed meats. And the process, I, Man, I have a whole conversation on this because even the lunch meats, yeah, they’re a lot of them are packaged in gluten to make them look plump, even like the butter, the, you know, turkeys, most of them, that, that liquid they’re encased in, it’s gluten, and it, it plumps them up. But I’m. That’s a whole different realm.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:07:38]:

But it is. But, you know, I think here I, I just like to qualify the quality of the proteins you’re getting and starting with the quality of the meats that you have. And you’re right. You talk about your hot dogs. I’ve heard demonization on the bacon that, you know, that has some ill effects on the body. And some of those processed meats, even the kind of stuff that you might get on a charcuterie board, may not best thing for you.

 

Julie Olson [00:07:58]:

Right, right. And you want to think just as close to nature as possible. That’s why game meats are just great. I mean, Livers. It’s a perfect liver. Organ meats are the perfect food for hair because they have. Yeah, they.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:08:14]:

Okay.

 

Julie Olson [00:08:14]:

They’ve got every nutrient possible, you know, including vitamin A and a lot of vitamins, other vitamins and minerals. So.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:08:23]:

Okay.

 

Julie Olson [00:08:23]:

Yeah, yeah. I mean, what type of eggs you eat? I mean, you want to get chicken organic. I mean, it’s.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:08:30]:

Does that really make a big difference? Because sometimes I hear there’s free range and there’s organic and things like that. And. Yeah, you know, sometimes when it comes to the food industry, they put a label on something that sounds great and then they charge you a lot more money for it. But truly, organic is a word that is organic.

 

Julie Olson [00:08:48]:

Yeah, it is. And. But that is a really good question because for eggs you want organic and free range. Because organic could be. Meaning organic could be the. Well, they’re eating organic soy. Right. But free range means they’re eating grass and insects like they’re supposed to be eating.

 

Julie Olson [00:09:07]:

And they are more expensive. For sure.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:09:10]:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, Go figure.

 

Julie Olson [00:09:13]:

Yeah, yeah. And then, I mean, you can take it down from there. Let’s use an example of keto diet. Right. People think, oh, well, that would be great because I could get all that protein. Keto is basically protein and fat, but you also need a lot of antioxidants and vitamins and minerals for hair growth. And I can go into those.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:09:36]:

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, we talked a little bit about the proteins and let’s speak to somebody who might be vegan or vegetarian and they said, well, you know what, I’m not going to change my ways. I know that the meat might be superior to give me the vitamins and nutrients that I want, want, but I’m sticking to my legumes. So if you were going to eat a vegetarian or vegan diet and stick to that, what are the best foods you can eat that would fit into those diets? For hair health, there’s.

 

Julie Olson [00:10:04]:

As far as.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:10:05]:

Are you talking beans, nuts, things like that.

 

Julie Olson [00:10:09]:

Pea protein is pretty good, I would say. Let’s see. I’m not reverse on that because I really just don’t encourage it. I would encourage more for them to eat or to supplement with branch chain amino acids.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:10:25]:

Okay, what, what exactly is that? And how would you get branched chain amino acids into your body?

 

Julie Olson [00:10:31]:

Well, as a vegan or vegetarian, it would be as a supplement.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:10:35]:

Okay.

 

Julie Olson [00:10:36]:

You’re a capsule or a powder.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:10:38]:

Okay. So you could. Yeah. So maybe you could get the nutrients then through a different means and not violate your dietary restrictions.

 

Julie Olson [00:10:47]:

Okay.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:10:47]:

All Right, that’s really good to know. So the hair is literally built from protein, keratin, the main structural component of hair. And basically the building blocks are these amino acids which come from the proteins that we’re eating. So if you’re not getting enough high quality protein, the body has to prioritize where it sends its limited supply. And unfortunately, hair is not the top of the list. So that’s why getting the right amount and the right kind of protein is really essential for strong, healthy hair. But as important as protein is, it’s only just one piece of the puzzle. There are also key vitamins and minerals that play just as big of a role in your hair health.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:11:29]:

And if your body isn’t getting enough of them or isn’t absorbing them properly, you could start noticing hair thinning, shedding, or even changes in texture.

 

Julie Olson [00:11:43]:

I actually see a lot of people that are eating great, but the problem is they’re not absorbing. And it’s because of this fast paced lifestyle and stress, this chronic stress that people are experiencing nowadays. And they’re not getting downtime, they’re not sleeping, sleeping well. And when you’re stressed, your body is going to give those nutrients to your vital organs to keep you alive, not to your hair. And our hair in our they. I heard of the microbiome, the duck microbiome.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:12:14]:

Yes, I have, I’ve heard that it has so much to do with the body, but what are some of the big functions? And I’ve seen drinks that you can have like a kombucha to maybe try to deal with, you know, your gut biomes and your good bacteria in there. But what would you recommend and why is it so important to worry about your gut bacteria when it comes to your hair?

 

Julie Olson [00:12:35]:

Well, because that’s how 80% of our immune system is in our gut.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:12:41]:

80% of our immune systems in our gut you say?

 

Julie Olson [00:12:44]:

Right, right. And we have more bacteria in our gut than cells on our bodies, a 10 to 1 ratio. And the problem is if we’re living this, this fast paced lifestyle, which is, you know, and not slowing down and chewing our food and absorbing it, then our bad bacteria overcomes our good bacteria, just pushes it out again. We have to keep that bacteria happy and healthy. And the way we can do that is not only with nutrients, but like we started to talk about different probiotics and, you know, supplementing and fermented foods, prebiotics that feed the probiotics.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:13:23]:

I mean, what are some foods that would promote good gut health that you like the best?

 

Julie Olson [00:13:29]:

I mean, fermented foods. So you think of, like kimchi, you think of, you know, not sauerkraut, you get at the ball game, but the sauerkraut and that. By the way, any sauerkraut or any of those fermented foods that are sold on the shelf, the fermentation is already dead. So you always want to buy it refrigerated. But like yogurt and then fermented drinks, kefirs and so forth. But then there’s prebiotics that feed the probiotics. So those are sulfur containing foods, the onions, the, you know, various vegetables. But at the end of the day, there are top hair nutrients.

 

Julie Olson [00:14:09]:

You want me to go into that in the top 25 foods for hair?

 

Kevin Rolston [00:14:12]:

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. We’re on a great roll right now. Let’s keep it going.

 

Julie Olson [00:14:17]:

Yeah. So I’m just gonna rattle off the top 25 foods for hair. And some of them are like prebiotic foods. So leafy greens, salmon, olive oil, avocados, onions, pumpkin, Brazil nuts, sardines, gava, eggs, lentils, oysters, organ meats, carrots, grass fed beef, almonds, broccoli, sunflower seeds, bell pepper, cinnamon, bok choy, sweet potatoes, poultry, you know, including duck, you know, like chicken, turkey, duck, mushrooms and kefir. So I rattle off a lot of foods that are not just protein. And I rattled off a lot of, you know, foods that vegetarians can eat. And then so some other top nutrients for hair are vitamin A, which helps moisturize the scalp and maintain healthy hair, and then omega 3 fatty acids. So that’s what you can get from, like, salmon.

 

Julie Olson [00:15:16]:

We need those to help nourish the hair as well. And actually it’s linked to the hair growth due to the proliferation of hair follicle cells. And deficiencies can cause not only hair loss, but lightning of hair color.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:15:31]:

Oh, really? Oh, wow. So that might be a sign that you’re not getting enough nutrients if your hair gets lighter.

 

Julie Olson [00:15:36]:

Yep. And also a sign of stress. You know, people say I turn gray overnight because of this event that happened.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:15:43]:

Wow. How about that?

 

Julie Olson [00:15:45]:

Yeah. And then zinc is involved in tissue growth repair, including hair. That’s very important. Vitamin D plays a role in stimulating new and old hair follicles. When there’s not enough vitamin D in the system, that hair growth can be stunted.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:16:02]:

Okay. All right.

 

Julie Olson [00:16:03]:

Yeah. Selenium aids in the formation of hair follicles or protection against damage. Manganese deficiencies could lead to hair, slow hair growth. Vitamin E helps reduce breakdown of follicles and helps provide the moisture and Soothing of the oil glands. And then, of course, iron. Iron. We talked about the different types of iron at the beginning. But a deficiency or even too much iron negatively affects the normal cycle of hair growth and could lead to excessive shedding.

 

Julie Olson [00:16:34]:

So it’s really important to get your iron levels checked. Okay. And then biotin. Now that’s. Biotin is. Sure, it’s important. Deficiencies can lead to brittle hair that’s more prone to thinning. But really, this whole biotin thing, I’m working on a.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:16:53]:

Isn’t that something that I’ve heard that they include in a lot of shampoos?

 

Julie Olson [00:16:57]:

Yeah, and that’s. It’s really a myth. It’s kind of a marketing thing. Like, you can even get too much biotin.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:17:04]:

Oh, really? So when you get your shampoo, I mean, is that you’re saying it doesn’t do anything really? No, nothing. Okay, how about that? You know, and my question to you, because you’re talking about these nutrients and you were talking about the diet. You can buy a ton of supplements. But tell me about the absorption rate between food and supplements, because I think ideally you want to try to get it through the food. Right. And not the supplement.

 

Julie Olson [00:17:29]:

Absolutely. 100%. We’re made to eat food, not supplement. That’s why they call them supplements. And you can take too many supplements, too.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:17:38]:

Right? Right. Yeah. I wonder, because, you know, it is a complex game. I was talking to somebody even just today about vitamin D, and they were asking me, well, are you taking vitamin K? I was like, no. And they said, well, you need to take your vitamin K to unlock the vitamin D. I’m like, oh, my goodness. So I got to take a supplement to unlock my supplement. So, yeah, you can really get down a rabbit hole.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:17:58]:

And that’s why I was just curious, because before you know it, you’re trying to get good hair health, and you’ve got 25 bottles, and it takes you half an hour to take your pills in the morning to try to have good hair health. So if you had to say, if I was taking anything in a bottle, what do you think are the best things I should take for hair health that I’ve seen nutrients that come in a bottle just for hair health. Now, would that be a marketing gag like the biotin is, or is there actual value in that?

 

Julie Olson [00:18:23]:

There’s some value in it.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:18:25]:

Okay.

 

Julie Olson [00:18:26]:

There’s a lot of hair nutrients, but the ones I mentioned, I. So I’ll just rattle them off again.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:18:32]:

Okay.

 

Julie Olson [00:18:32]:

You know, protein, which you can also supplement with, like we talked about. Vitamin D, vitamin A. Oh no, I didn’t mention niacin. B vitamins, but especially niacin, the flushing type that really helps dilate the capillaries and helps the buildup of calcium and DHT that can otherwise inhibit hair follicle growth.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:18:51]:

Right, okay. Yeah.

 

Julie Olson [00:18:53]:

Iron again, I, you have to be careful about it because you can get too much. You can get, you can get too much with. I’ll talk about that later. But essential fatty acids, especially the Omega 3s selenium, you know, some biotin, don’t go nuts. Zinc, vitamin E and manganese. And then there’s others that like nettle root and saw pimento really help if your hair loss is because of elevated dht. But back to getting too much, yes, you can get too much, even too much biotin and especially the fat soluble vitamins. And think of as a deck, A D, E and K.

 

Julie Olson [00:19:31]:

Okay. And you can. Fat soluble vitamins, that’s what they are. They, you don’t urinate out the excess.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:19:38]:

Okay.

 

Julie Olson [00:19:38]:

And they hold in your body. You have to be very careful. But even there’s some other fat soluble vitamins that people don’t even know they’re fat soluble and that’s curcumin, turmeric. This becomes so popular, right. Alpha lipoic acid, CoQ10. But you’re right. At the end of the day, our body knows what to do with nutrients from food, not from a bunch of supplements. And it’s also, it’s also a matter of, you know, slowing down and chewing your food and enjoying it and having a meal and not being on the run.

 

Julie Olson [00:20:11]:

And you know, there’s, there’s a lot to also avoid toxins in your environment and you know, get your gut optimized. And I mean it’s just, it’s not as simple as taking a supplement. It’s not. If, if it was that simple, people wouldn’t be losing their hair.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:20:31]:

It’s totally normal to wish that there was one perfect supplement that you can take to make sure that you’re getting all, all the minerals and vitamins you need for your healthy hair. And you may have even seen something like that advertised on social media and consider giving it a try. But it’s important to remember that supplements are good for balancing out deficiencies. But it is possible to get too much of a good thing. If you’re curious about starting a supplement regimen, a great first step is to get blood work done and work with your healthcare provider to determine what’s going to be right for you and make that A part of a balanced, healthy diet. After all, our bodies are designed to process and utilize the nutrients we get from the food we eat. We talked about what foods we should be eating for healthy strong hair. But it’s just as important to think about what we shouldn’t be eating.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:21:19]:

Some foods can actually work against you, creating inflammation, disrupting nutrient absorption, or even accelerating your hair thinning. Now, you talked a little bit about some of the most damaging foods. You talked about the processed foods, your hot dogs, maybe your bacon, things like that. Are there a grouping of maybe three to five foods that you would say please, if you want good hair health, these foods are very damaging for that?

 

Julie Olson [00:21:47]:

Yeah. Processed seed oils, so canola oil, sunflower, all those, all those, those oils. The only good oils are avocado is a good oil. Coconut oil is a great oil. Of course, olive oil, those are all great oils. But the processed seed oils, I mean really, the way they process them, it’s really alarming. It’s basically one step away from plastic and you’re putting that in your body. I mean they, they trans fats live in outlawed a lot of places and that has to be on every process food.

 

Julie Olson [00:22:20]:

How much trans fat is on the, in the package. So yeah, and that just gives it longer shelf life. But those fats are really toxic to our, our body. I mean that it’s, you can’t process them. And then, so those, and gluten is. Because it’s such a large protein and difficult to digest. And if someone’s losing their hair, there’s definitely some other imbalances in their body. And gluten glues down the microvilli.

 

Julie Olson [00:22:52]:

The microvilli are finger like projections in the small intestine that absorb our nutrients and it basically just glues it down so you don’t absorb your nutrients. And then you can become anemic and then, you know, I mean, yeah, that’s, that was one of my problems. So. Yeah, those are some of the main, the main ones. I know I’m missing something. I mean a lot of people can’t digest dairy. And a lot of that’s because the dairy is from cows that are eating soy and just horrible foods in confinement. Whereas raw milk, organic raw milk, grass fed cows, that could be beneficial, you know.

 

Julie Olson [00:23:30]:

Yeah, so those are some of the main ones. You know, any processed food, I mean, if you can’t even pronounce the ingredients on the package, you should be eating whole foods as close to nature as possible.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:23:41]:

Right, But I’ve heard that too, that when you look at A food package, you really shouldn’t have more than four to five items on the back of it. And if there’s anything you can’t pronounce that is in that food, then don’t buy that food. That’s not something you should put in your body.

 

Julie Olson [00:23:54]:

Right. Right.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:23:56]:

Now tell me a little bit, because I’m a big believer in hydration and drinking water. I think it’s good for digestion, good for your skin. So I would assume is hydration good for your hair. And I know you can over hydrate as well, but what is water’s role in making sure you have healthy hair?

 

Julie Olson [00:24:12]:

Oh, 100% important for hair as well, because we have to detoxify as we. Every day, we need to detoxify things, and we can’t do that if we’re not getting enough good, healthy water on our system. Our hair needs to be hydrated too. And again, that hydration, if we’re dehydrated, are we going to eat more food? Because if you’re dehydrated, you get hungry when you’re just really dehydrated. But it’s going to first go to your vital organs and your hair lasts, and then your hair is not going to be healthy. It needs that hydration for detoxification and also cellular turnover and for the whole nutrient processing. And let me also mention that they’ve discovered a new microbiome in our scalp, the scalp hair microbiome. And it also requires a lot of hydration and ATP requires not only nutrients to absorb, but energy from.

 

Julie Olson [00:25:15]:

You know, you’ve heard the Krebs cycle and ATP and water’s needed for that, that cycle.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:25:21]:

Okay. And how much water is needed? They used to have the whole thing, have eight glasses a day or something like that.

 

Julie Olson [00:25:27]:

But.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:25:27]:

But what is a good amount of true hydration?

 

Julie Olson [00:25:30]:

Half your body weight in ounces of water a day.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:25:33]:

Okay. All right, there you go. That’s. That’s cut and dry. I love that. Now, if you had to say one thing just to go into your own hair loss that you had, you talked about it coming out in clumps. You talked about stress, busy lifestyle and things like that. But what do you think was the biggest problem that you had for your own personal hair loss? And what was the biggest cure? What do you think was the most attributable thing that you did to correct it?

 

Julie Olson [00:26:00]:

I think I finally slowed down and decided to pay attention to my own health instead of putting black dress on it. But I discovered that I had really high Upstein Barr Virus, which is also called chronic fatigue syndrome.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:26:15]:

Okay, Right.

 

Julie Olson [00:26:16]:

And so any virus, you know, the COVID virus, they called it the COVID shed, that caused a lot of hair loss, like three to six months after. So I had that. I had H. Pylori, elevated H. Pylori. I had autoimmune celiac problems with gluten. So I wasn’t absorbing my nutrients. I didn’t know why, because my microvilli was glued down.

 

Julie Olson [00:26:41]:

Okay. My gut was really unhealthy. I got dysbiosis. That means an unbalanced gut. I had too much bad bacteria compared to the good bacteria. It was unbalanced.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:26:52]:

How did you correct that specifically? What did you do that was effective in that?

 

Julie Olson [00:26:56]:

A lot of things. I, you know, I got rid of my systemic chronic inflammation. I avoided the gluten. I ate the foods that were right for my body. Yeah, I got the right hydration. That’s important. I, you know, I just prioritize my health. I mean, there’s just a lot more to it than, than that, you know, getting out the toxins.

 

Julie Olson [00:27:21]:

First, you have to identify what toxins are in your body and in your environment and can anything from mold to even like a stressful job or relationship that plays a role on your parent health.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:27:37]:

We have covered a lot of information today. Everything from the best foods for hair growth to the nutritional deficiencies that consume lead to hair loss and even the foods that might be working against your hair health. But if there’s one thing I took away from this conversation with Julie, it’s that your hair health is a direct reflection of your overall health. It’s easy to think of hair loss is something that just happens on its own. And it’s true that some people have genetic predispositions towards losing their hair. But it’s also important to keep in mind that your hair could be an indicator of what might be going on internally for you. If you’re missing key nutrients, if your gut isn’t absorbing what you’re eating, or if you’re under a lot of stress, it’s going to show up in your hair. That’s why taking a holistic approach to hair thinning and hair loss is so important.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:28:26]:

It’s not just about using the right shampoo or taking a supplement. It’s about feeding your body what it truly needs, managing stress, staying hydrated, and making sure your whole system is in balance. Because when you support your overall health, your hair benefits too. So before you reach for a quick fix, take a step back and look at the bigger picture, there might be a small change you can make today that’s going to have a big impact on your hair in the long run. Whether it’s counting your macros, focusing on whole foods, or just cutting back on processed junk, taking steps toward a healthier lifestyle can totally change your hair journey. Like it did for Julie we want to thank Julie for coming on the show to share her wisdom with us for inspirational stories and words of wisdom from people who have been through hair loss. Make sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast app. Thanks for listening to another episode of hairpod.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:29:19]:

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