Hair Loss & Hashimoto’s Disease

Hair Loss & Hashimoto’s Disease

Episode 48

Hair Loss & Hashimoto’s Disease

Hair Loss & Hashimoto's Disease | Emily Kiberd
Is thyroid dysfunction causing your hair loss? In this episode, I sat down with Dr. Emily Kiberd, an expert in thyroid health. She talked about this little organ’s role in all the processes in our bodies, symptoms of thyroid dysfunction, and practical steps you can take today to improve your thyroid’s health.

Thyroid Function and Hair Health

The thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped organ, plays a critical role in regulating every metabolic process in the body by secreting essential hormones. Symptoms of thyroid dysfunction can include fatigue, difficulty losing weight, brain fog, feeling cold, and hair loss. According to Dr. Kiberd, many women experience these symptoms for up to ten years before receiving proper treatment. The connection between thyroid health and hair loss is often overlooked, making early detection and management essential.

Is a Thyroid Disorder Causing Your Hair Loss?

Diagnosing thyroid-related hair loss begins with simple blood tests to detect hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism. However, recognizing the symptoms as thyroid-related may require a specialist. Hashimoto’s Disease, an autoimmune thyroid disorder, is responsible for 90% of hypothyroidism cases. Stress, hormonal changes, nutritional deficiencies, and environmental factors can trigger thyroid issues in genetically predisposed individuals. Reducing stressors on the body is key to alleviating symptoms like hair thinning and restoring hormonal balance.

Improve Your Thyroid and Hair Health

Dr. Kiberd emphasizes the importance of a holistic approach to thyroid health. Start with dietary adjustments that include nutrient-dense foods like lean proteins and vegetables, ensure adequate sleep, manage stress effectively, and avoid overtraining. Identifying environmental stressors and adopting healthy lifestyle habits can significantly improve thyroid function. While self-care is a great starting point, working with a healthcare professional is essential for accurate diagnosis and tailored treatment plans. This approach not only supports thyroid health but can also promote faster hair regrowth if thyroid dysfunction is the underlying cause of your hair loss.

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Episode.48 Transcript

Emily Kiberd [00:00:02]:

Well, I would say that the majority of women who have Hashimoto’s have had symptoms 10 years before they actually got diagnosed. Some of the symptoms would be fatigue, difficulty losing weight, brain fog, feeling cold all the time. So feeling like maybe they need to wrap themselves up in a scarf, but it’s not that cold outside, constipation, feeling like food kind of sits in your stomach, moving slow through your stomach. And so most women, it takes about 10 years before they get to their

 

Emily Kiberd [00:00:28]:

diagnosis, even though they had symptoms early,

 

Emily Kiberd [00:00:31]:

and maybe their symptoms were brushed off.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:00:46]:

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. This week, we’re going to be talking about one small organ in the human body and its profound impact on every metabolic process, including digestion, brain function, and, yes, even hair growth. When this system gets out of whack, for some reason or another, both men and women can experience hair thinning. If you haven’t guessed already, we’re going to get educated on the thyroid, how it works, symptoms of thyroid disorders, and most importantly, what you can do right now to start taking care of your thyroid. And there’s nobody better to help us out with this than Dr. Emily Kiberd.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:01:42]:

After being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, he she modified her lifestyle to support her physical health, and now she helps others do the exact same. So whether you’re already concerned about your thyroid health or you’re not even sure what the thyroid does, you are in the right place.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:02:01]:

So the thyroid gland is a little butterfly shaped gland in the front of our neck, and it secretes hormones that are responsible for every single metabolic process in our body. Every single cell needs thyroid hormones.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:02:16]:

Every single cell, everything that your body.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:02:19]:

Is regulated by the thyroid?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:02:22]:

Yeah. So every metabolic process, your heart beating, digestion, hair growth, the nutrition of your skin, brain function, every single thing, every.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:02:33]:

Metabolic process in the body needs thyroid hormones.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:02:36]:

So when there is dysfunction of our.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:02:38]:

Thyroid, it shows up in every single organ system of the body.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:02:43]:

So I’ve heard of people that have a thyroid condition. I assume it starts with symptoms, but then how do you get to the point where you can actually diagnose and say you have a thyroid condition? What points the finger exactly to the thyroid?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:02:58]:

Yeah.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:02:58]:

So typically it’s a blood draw where we’re looking at different thyroid markers. Not only how much thyroid hormone is your thyroid secreting, but also the signal from the brain to the thyroid to say, hey, squirt some thyroid hormones. And then also your ability to convert the thyroid hormone from the inactive to.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:03:22]:

The active form so that it can get pushed into the cell and actually used.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:03:27]:

Okay.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:03:28]:

And then there’s also tests to see.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:03:30]:

If you have antibodies attacking your thyroid.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:03:33]:

Hormones, not only from the thyroid gland, but but also thyroid hormones circulating in the blood. So it’s a blood test.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:03:40]:

Okay.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:03:40]:

And you usually put symptoms and match.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:03:44]:

It with the blood test.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:03:45]:

When you have a problem with your.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:03:46]:

Thyroid, what typically triggers that problem? What makes it an issue?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:03:50]:

Yeah, so typically there is some stressor. Sometimes it’s transition through hormonal phases of life, so pregnancy or postpartum moving into perimenopause or menopause. It can also be stressors from nutrition or some sort of exposure to something. Food sensitivities, environmental load.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:12]:

Can even be emotional stressors affecting the thyroid gland.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:15]:

Like going through a divorce or, you.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:18]:

Know, losing a loved one. Yeah.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:04:20]:

So it sounds to me like when you have a thyroid condition, you may be able to diagnose that you have a thyroid condition, but then figuring out what has triggered the issues with the thyroid, that could be more complicated.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:32]:

Yeah.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:33]:

So typically, people are starting to feel tired, and not just tired after they.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:39]:

Exert themselves, but they wake up tired, and they’re tired all day. Typically, they have trouble losing weight.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:44]:

So what used to work, like move more, eat less isn’t working anymore, and.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:49]:

They’Re putting on weight, and they’re holding.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:51]:

Onto it, and they don’t know why.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:53]:

Their brain starts to get foggy.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:55]:

They’re like, oh, I.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:56]:

Where’s my keys?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:04:57]:

How it. Like, they try to end their sentence and they forgot what they were saying or where they were going, and digestion slows. This is specifically for hypothyroidism.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:05:06]:

So an underactive thyroid.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:05:08]:

You can also have hyperthyroidism, where you.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:05:10]:

Have an overactive thyroid.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:05:11]:

And the symptoms would be the opposite of what I’m saying. But right now, specifically, I’m talking about hypothyroidism.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:05:17]:

So your digestion slows constipation. And then one of the other things that shows up is hair loss.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:05:22]:

So people showering and, like, clumps, chunks of hair coming out or the outer third of your eyebrow starting to disappear. You know, women having to be like, oh, I got to. Got to pencil that in.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:05:38]:

If you’re experiencing Hair thinning, along with other symptoms like fatigue and weight changes. Learning about hypothyroidism is a great first step, but for many people, it’s not the whole story. Hypothyroidism, also known as an underactive thyroid, happens when the body isn’t producing enough thyroid hormone. But that can have an underlying cause, an autoimmune condition called Hashimoto’s disease. Hashimoto’s is one of the most common causes of hypothyroidism, yet is often overlooked or even misunderstood. Unlike hypothyroidism that may develop for other reasons. Hashimoto’s involves your immune system attacking your thyroid, creating a cycle of inflammation and hormonal imbalance that can wreak havoc on your body and, yes, your hair.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:06:29]:

So Hashimoto’s is. It’s an autoimmune condition. So basically your body is attacking itself. And the components of Hashimoto’s are an underactive thyroid. So a thyroid that is slowing down.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:06:41]:

So all those symptoms I just shared.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:06:43]:

Hair loss, weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, feeling cold all the time, like you can’t regulate your metabolism or your heat generation. And 90% of people who are hypothyroid.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:06:55]:

So have an underactive thyroid, have the autoimmune piece. So 90% of people who have an.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:01]:

Underactive thyroid, the cause of it is from an autoimmune reaction.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:06]:

Right.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:06]:

And that’s where we start to look at stress, underlying root causes, gut health, environmental load. Usually there’s inflammation involved because the antibodies are getting driven up.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:18]:

So the difference between Hashimoto’s is that.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:21]:

There’S the presence of thyroid antibodies versus.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:25]:

Hypothyroidism is just your thyroid hormones are.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:28]:

Looking sluggish, but there’s not a presence of antibodies.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:32]:

So that’s the difference.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:33]:

But if you have a slow thyroid, the chance of having the autoimmune piece, 90%.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:07:40]:

Okay. So you see things like hair loss, you talk about some of the symptoms that happen with this. And when you start looking at somebody and they, they seem to have these kind of things, how do you start to reverse the processes of Hashimoto’s and how difficult is it?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:07:58]:

Yeah, so we take a look at.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:00]:

Things that are foundational.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:02]:

So how are you eating? There’s a lot of research showing that gluten sensitivity can drive up your thyroid antibodies. So maybe one of the recommendations would be going gluten free, seeing if that changes your labs and your symptoms. Another piece would be, you know, working out sometimes over training can be a stressor and can Drive up antibodies. Right.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:26]:

Another piece would be sleep, and then.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:28]:

Another piece that I always look at.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:30]:

Is just nervous system regulation and stress.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:33]:

So I had a client who, after her second kid, she was really tired.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:38]:

And she kept going to the doctor.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:40]:

And the doctor’s like, mm, I think it’s just your postpartum, your new mom.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:43]:

And then she went to her hairdresser, and her hairdresser’s like, you have chunks of hair, like you have bald spots in the back of your head.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:49]:

And she’s like, it was actually the hairdresser that said, I think you need.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:54]:

To go to an endocrinologist and get your thyroid checked.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:08:57]:

It was the hairdresser.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:08:59]:

That’s crazy. And only then did she then go to the endocrinologist, like, really push for it because it is a specialist. And get a full breadth of labs, because sometimes doctors who maybe aren’t trained.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:15]:

In endocrinology or thyroid hormones only look.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:18]:

At, like, you know, a certain number of labs versus there actually are more labs to look at to really see this conversion happening.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:25]:

Are there presence of antibodies?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:27]:

And so, you know, then she got on thyroid medication, and she started to.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:31]:

Clean up her diet because she did have antibodies.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:33]:

She started to change how she was working out.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:09:35]:

Okay.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:35]:

And her hair grew back. She worked on some gut health H.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:39]:

Pylori and Sibo that came up some.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:41]:

Gut infections that were just adding stress.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:44]:

And load to her system.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:45]:

You know, people often talk about think of your body as like a cup.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:48]:

So all the little stressors.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:09:50]:

Right. So if you have, like, an underlying gut infection, you have some food sensitivities, you know, you’re having a hard time at work, like, all of this fills your cup until it overflows.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:00]:

Typically, there’s a genetic component to having.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:03]:

An autoimmune condition, and these stressors are just adding to the genetics of it that then kind of trip your genetic.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:11]:

Predisposition to turn on the gene of.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:13]:

Having an autoimmune condition.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:10:15]:

How do you know if you have that predisposition? Is it because you always see it in your parents or your relatives or how would you know?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:23]:

Yeah, I mean, sometimes it’s parents, sisters.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:27]:

You know, siblings, sometimes it’s grandparents. So.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:31]:

Yeah.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:10:31]:

And what do you look for? How would you know that they have had a thyroid condition?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:35]:

Probably very similar symptoms.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:38]:

So difficulty losing weight, always tired. Hair loss, for example. Like, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s after.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:45]:

The birth of my first kiddo back.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:46]:

In 2016, and my mother has thyroid issues. I always kind of like, brushed it Off.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:51]:

And then my sister has thyroid issues. So definitely a genetic piece.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:10:56]:

My mother had ablation, basically, you know, radiation over thyroid, and now is on thyroid meds.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:11:03]:

I chose to go more of a.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:11:05]:

Holistic approach of like, okay, I’m gonna.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:11:07]:

Change how I eat and how I.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:11:08]:

Work out, and I’m gonna look at gut and look at environmental load like mold and parasite exposure. And I put mine into remission.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:11:16]:

So I don’t have the symptoms.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:11:17]:

My labs look good, but I still, I know I still have the genetics. So two very different ways of kind of approaching it and addressing it with two very different outco foreign.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:11:31]:

So we have unpacked Hashimoto’s and its impact on your thyroid and your hair. But here’s the thing. Hair loss has many possible causes, from stress and genetics to nutritional deficiencies and hormonal imbalances. It can be tough to pinpoint the exact reason your hair might be thinning. So how do you know if your thyroid is the root cause?

 

Kevin Rolston [00:11:51]:

Well, this is where it gets tricky.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:11:53]:

Thyroid related hair loss typically overlaps with other symptoms, but they can be subtle, especially if the changes have been happening slowly over time. It’s important to listen to your body and if you have significant concerns, to seek a professional diagnosis from a physician.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:13]:

Well, I would say that the majority of women who have Hashimoto’s have had symptoms 10 years before they actually got diagnosed.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:12:21]:

Okay, what would they be looking for? What would some of the symptoms be?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:24]:

Some of the symptoms would be fatigue, difficulty. Some of the symptoms mentioned before.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:28]:

Difficulty losing weight. Brain fog.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:12:31]:

Yeah.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:31]:

Feeling cold all the time.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:12:33]:

Okay.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:33]:

So feeling like maybe they need to like wrap themselves up in a scarf. But it’s not that cold outside. Constipation, feeling like food kind of sits.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:41]:

In your stomach, moving slow through your stomach.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:12:44]:

Okay.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:45]:

And so most women, it takes about.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:47]:

10 years before they get to their.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:48]:

Diagnosis, even though they had symptoms early.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:50]:

And maybe their symptoms were brushed off. To get diagnosed is actually not that.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:55]:

Hard and it’s not that expensive, you.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:12:57]:

Know, but it’s just that I think many potentially trained professionals aren’t always looking for it. So, like, when someone comes to me anytime they have fatigue, I’m thinking, okay, just rule, like, let’s test, not guess. Let’s rule out any sort of, any sort of thyroid symptoms or thyroid as a root cause.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:13:18]:

So as we talk about Hashimoto’s, we talk about the thyroid and how it affects hair loss. How do you start to zero in on the diagnosis that your hair loss is being caused by either one of these things. Is there a way to figure that that is the cause of your hair loss?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:13:36]:

Yeah, I think it would go back to if someone was losing hair as part of. If you were going to make a list.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:13:44]:

So in the medical world, we call this a differential diagnosis. All the potential difference, like potential causes.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:13:50]:

Of hair loss, and then testing to see if those are coming up positive. So, you know, as it relates to.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:13:58]:

Hair, the thyroid hormones are very crucial for the growth and the maintenance of your hair follicles. So when you’re hypothyroid, you have an underactive thyroid. You don’t have enough of these optimal levels of hormones. It now disrupts the normal hair growth cycle.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:14:15]:

And hair follicles, when you’re hypothyroid can sit in this, like, kind of resting phase, which can lead to hair loss, can lead to hair thinning. So it’s like your body is showing you the sign, and then you just.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:14:30]:

Need someone to be like, hey, let’s just see if your thyroid is causing.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:14:34]:

That, or is there something else causing it? Right.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:14:37]:

So a really good practitioner would make.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:14:39]:

A differential diagnosis test.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:14:41]:

Okay, is it your thyroid? Is it this? Is it this? Get to the root cause and then.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:14:45]:

Address it so that ideally, hair growth could happen again.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:14:49]:

Right now, if somebody’s listening to this.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:14:52]:

And it’s speaking to them and they’re thinking that you might be talking to them about what they might have when they go to their doctor, what do they need to ask? Do they ask specifically for a thyroid test? Or what is the request that you make to your doctor?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:15:05]:

Yeah, I mean, you could ask, like, hey, can you check my thyroid?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:15:08]:

Could you do a full thyroid panel.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:15:10]:

And make sure you check thyroid antibodies? I think a really good practitioner, it’s not the client coming asking the questions.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:15:18]:

It’s the practitioner guiding the way and.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:15:20]:

Asking the right questions to get to the root cause, which doesn’t always happen. Right. But I think as an empowered individual, and I’m very much that way, too. Like, I want to go to the.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:15:28]:

Doctor and be empowered with the right questions.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:15:30]:

So if I was losing hair, I would want a thyroid test. I would want to check a full iron panel, because iron can affect hair growth. I would want to check vitamin D, because vitamin D helps regulate the cycle of the hair follicles and probably B vitamins. Right. So folate, B12, biotin, methylmalonic acid. I’d want them to check for zinc from a mineral perspective. Not like most primary cares might.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:15:58]:

Probably won’t do that.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:15:59]:

They’re like, we’ll check your thyroid, vitamin D and iron, but definitely because certain.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:03]:

Nutrient deficiencies can lead to hair loss.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:07]:

So I would want those checked as well.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:16:09]:

Even if you don’t get the diagnosis, you’ve talked a bit about what nutrition and out exterior factors play in thyroid health.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:18]:

Yeah.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:16:19]:

If I just want to change the game today, what are the foods I need to avoid? What are the things I should be putting in my body if I feel like I have some of these symptoms that immediately would start giving me the good gut health. That would help possibly with the thyroid issue. What do I eat? How do I sleep? What do I do? So I can start correcting it even before I get to the doctor.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:40]:

Yeah. So I think eating protein and veg, I think hitting your optimal protein amount per day, 30 grams minimum per meal.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:49]:

You could shoot for one gram per.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:51]:

Pound of ideal body weight.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:16:53]:

Okay, that’s a good factor.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:54]:

Yeah.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:55]:

Nutrient dense foods, protein, veg, which for.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:58]:

A lot of people might be like.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:16:59]:

Whoa, that feels really extreme.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:17:01]:

But you know, I think if you want the most bang for your buck, protein is very nutrient dense, so you’re going to get the most nutrients out of it for not a lot of calories, for example. So in terms of sleep, you want, I would say eight hours of sleep, but not only that, you want one.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:17:20]:

And a half to two hours of deep sleep. So if anyone actually tracks their sleep.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:17:24]:

And you know, a device like an.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:17:25]:

Aura or whoop, you want to see 1 1/2 to 2 hours of deep sleep. If you’re not getting that deep sleep.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:17:30]:

That restorative, restful sleep, you’re going to have brain fog and fatigue and probably have a hard time losing weight and that, you know, your body needs to clear out old dead cells and restore itself. So that would be a piece of sleep.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:17:46]:

I think a lot of us probably.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:17:48]:

Get unnecessary blue light at night if we are have the TV on before.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:17:53]:

We go to bed or if we’re looking at our screens. So how can we minimize that blue light? Because that’s going to disrupt your melatonin.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:00]:

That hormone that puts you to bed. So you could either not get on your phone three hours before bed, which.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:05]:

I would say majority of people have.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:07]:

A hard time doing. Or not that I’ve lost faith in humanity whatsoever.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:12]:

I have not.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:13]:

But like, you know, just to get honest here.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:18:15]:

Yeah.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:16]:

Or you could wear blue blocker glasses.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:19]:

Which are filtering out the blue light. Right.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:20]:

And I tell you, when I put on my blue blocker glasses, I immediately am like, whoo. Like really go to Bed early. Like, I feel like, hey, like my melatonin is kicking in, right? Go to bed earlier, get better quality sleep. So in terms of sleep, that would be something, I think, in terms of exposure. So when we think about an autoimmune condition, there’s three factors. There’s genetics, there’s stress, and then there’s gut health. Stress could be in the form of.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:47]:

Emotional stress, environmental stress.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:18:49]:

And so it’s not if we get exposed to things like pesticides, herbicides, mold exposure, it’s when it’s kind of inevitable. Right. A lot of that stuff is in our food, in our air.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:01]:

So how can we just minimize exposure?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:04]:

Getting a high quality water filter, an air filter. You know, I take supplements to help just support detox pathways to whatever I.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:13]:

Do get exposed to, to move it.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:14]:

Through the body and, you know, like, what was it two summers ago, maybe even last summer?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:21]:

Like tons of forest fire, right.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:23]:

Like New York City turned brow for two days straight. Like there are environmental factors that can.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:29]:

Affect inflammation in the body, can affect environmental load in the body.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:34]:

And so it’s kind of inevitable.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:36]:

So what can we do to really.

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:37]:

Minimize and mitigate the exposure that we’re getting?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:19:40]:

Some of those things I mentioned.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:19:42]:

Now, my question, you talked about a.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:19:44]:

Lot of things that even aside from Hashimoto’s or a thyroid issue, you’re just talking about good general wellness, the things that you’re giving me dietarily and what you need to do with sleep and trying to avoid stress and those kind of factors. So let’s say that I am experiencing hair loss or some of the symptoms you’re talking about. Is this something I just can correct on my own and maybe I give this a trial run of listening to your advice and I don’t need to go get a diagnosis for thyroid or Hashimoto’s and I’ll be okay. Or do I need to get under a doctor’s career to properly deal with the thyroid issue or Hashimoto’s?

 

Emily Kiberd [00:20:23]:

Yeah. I would say that if you want quicker results and you want to feel better quicker, I think working with someone will speed that process.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:20:39]:

We’ve explored how the thyroid, particularly in conditions like Hashimoto’s disease, can have a profound impact on your health and your hair. If there’s one takeaway from today, it’s this. Hair loss can be complex. And the sooner you consult a professional about potential underlying causes like thyroid function, the sooner you can take meaningful steps towards solutions that work for you. A big thank you to Dr. Kaiburn for sharing her insights and expertise on thyroid health. This was an enlightening look at how your hair loss, thyroid, hormones and general wellness all are linked together. We’re definitely going to be having her back on the show to tell us a little bit more, so be sure to subscribe if you’d like to hear more on the thyroid and hair loss.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:21:21]:

Thanks for listening to another episode of hairpod. Check us out at Hair Club on Instagram or search HairPod on Facebook to continue the conversation. If you know someone who could benefit from hearing this episode, we would love it if you would share it with them. If you’re enjoying the show, consider leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. We also have a website. Check it out by going to podcast.hairclub.com we’re here to build people up and share real stories so people experiencing hair loss feel a little bit less alone. And when you share, review and subscribe, it helps us do just that. So thank you.

 

Kevin Rolston [00:21:56]:

Until next time.

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