Episode 99 - How This Yogi Stopped Seeing Clumps of Hair Loss in Less Than 4 Weeks

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After seeing tons of hair clumps and wasting a lot of money on traditional treatments and supplements, Gabi realized this wasn’t the right way. On this episode she will give you a new perspective on tackling hair loss holistically. Hi, everybody, and welcome back to the Alopecia Angel podcast.

I am your host, Johanna Dahlman. Today, I am recording from the library, my internet providers are switching out, and so I'm in between internet providers at home, and so I can't record in my normal place. However, this also goes to show that when things happen in life, we need to take things in stride. We need to take things and just go with the flow. Sometimes surrendering to the situation, to the challenge, to the obstacle is many times what we need to do. And surrendering doesn't mean give up. It means let things move past and move freely through, the occurrence through what's going on. So for example, in this case. There's nothing I can do about not having internet at the house, because I have one bad provider and I'm upgrading to a better provider. But at the same time, there is a lapse in time and I can't move the appointments. I can't make them faster or sooner. And I can't force people to come out when they're not scheduled to, or when they can't get here, right?
And so, moving with the flow of what's happening is a good reminder as we move into the holiday season, as we move into when things happen, when things don't go our way, whether it's a missed flight or delayed flight or, package delays or any type of situation where it's inconvenient, right? Because many times as people, we get upset when there's an inconvenience to us, whether we're waiting too long or whether things didn't come out as well. And sometimes it's all of it is petty for the most part, right? The internet not working as petty not getting the parking spot, not doing this, not doing that, all of it in the grand scheme of things is petty.

But when it comes to our health, this is different, and so when we can release the stress of the everyday petty things, then it allows more energy for us to focus on ourselves, on our health. In our well being, and this is key to our success and every asset and aspect of life, but then also for a better enriched, empowered and happy life is really focusing on the bigger prize, the bigger situation, the bigger situation and obstacle, which at this moment it's hair loss, correct? And so letting go of all the smaller things in order to really focus, hone in and heal the bigger situation, which is alopecia. So that's something I wanted to mention.

I also wanted to mention before we get into Gabi's interview of how she had diffuse and telogen effluvium and how she saw tons of clumps before starting the program and then she went into stop all the clumps, all the hair loss stopped and then she went into hair growth.
Before we go into her interview, I wanted to also share that this is about 10 days out from the raffle that we're having for the gift cards. So if you haven't If you haven't already go ahead and submit your review on Apple Podcast for the Alopecia Angel Podcast and then email them the screenshot to [email protected] and then we will raffle off names for gift cards ranging from $75 to $500 and I'm really excited to do this because I know everyone can use extra money for holiday shopping and decor and whatnot. So I look forward to doing that.
And the other news I wanted to give you is that about a week ago, I was presenting at a conference here locally, and I was really excited to have so many people show up. It was over 60 people and I have another one coming up in February and then I have a really big health and wellness conference coming up in May and that will be in Dallas, Texas. So I'm really excited to share those details with you. And for the new year, I also have more surprises and more interesting situations coming up that I'd love to share. So feel free, stay tuned and continue to follow Alopecia Angel cause we're here to help and serve you.

And as I'm speaking, I've had such great pleasure and heartwarming experiences this week with so many wins and successes from clients of all ages emailing me about their hair growth, emailing me about how their healing is rapid, emailing me on how they're on the right path, emailing me on how grateful they are, emailing me on just, showing me before and after pictures.
And this is a time of gratitude at least for the US, it's Thanksgiving month, I like to not leave it for a day, but leave it for a month or even a year or, anytime all year round. And it is a time of being grateful and thankful, and Just like my clients are grateful for where they're at and the trajectory and their hair growth and their healing, I'm also grateful for all of them. And so I wanted to give a shout-out to everyone who's done the Hair N' Heal program, everyone who has followed me, everyone who listens to me and who believes they can heal because it truly is the power within that enables us to heal and to also move forward. And when you do that, when you put yourself as a priority.

And you say, stop I don't want to live this way anymore. I don't want to be in hair loss. I don't want to be bald. I don't want to have alopecia areata going come a thousand times, throughout my whole, throughout my life. I just want this to end and be done, know that you can and you can heal.
So I'm very grateful for all my supporters because we've grown over the years and we will continue to grow. So I look forward to spreading the word. And to having more outlets and spreading the word, but that'll come with more news in the future. Talk to you soon. Take care.
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Gabi: One of the biggest lessons I don't know, I don't even know how I came to you. I think maybe it was on Instagram or something, I don't know. Anyway, but a big lesson that I learned last year, cause I'm also a coach, but I'm a marketing coach for yoga teachers. And one of the biggest lessons that I've learned is to really invest, invest, because you know that you're coming from a space where if you put in the money, you're going to get the money back, right? If you put it in, you're going to get it in. I was like, how much money have I spent on Minoxidil bottles? I had been on Minoxidil since I wanna say 2009. That's a long time.

Johanna: A lot of money.

Gabi: It was a lot of money, but, and then I think of the impacts on my liver, like what that's had, and obviously can't go back. But yeah, a lot of money like the amount of money I did. What's that stuff? The PRP thing, I've done all of that stuff. It's all like the only thing that did work in inverted commas was Minoxidil, but at what price, right? And anyway, when I got to New Zealand and then they were like, sorry, you can't get a script. And I feel like that were those were my guides or my spirit angels or whoever it was saying like: it's time to... you've got to turn a corner now, this is not your path to follow. And it was probably the best thing that ever happened because I was like, you know what, I cannot accept. And I've never been the person just to accept things like this is my health, this is my life. And yeah. And having somebody who's walked the path, who's done it, who's got options, who like, it is a no brainer. It is just it's a no brainer just do it, that's how I feel. And it's yeah, just to really have that guidance and that support, it was a big thing and it was a helpful thing because I think that a lot of people walk around with this, with the shame, and this this feeling of loneliness because you think that it's just happening to you and you don't talk about it because there's a stigma attached and you just feel really sad and whatnot. Just having that support from someone to say, you know what yes, it is those things and I've been there, but there is a side, there is another side to it and it doesn't have to be this way, which was, that was a big thing. But you have to go looking, like the you've got to really go deep and find this stuff, because it's not going to be at the top of Google saying miraculous results. Hair loss treatment and that like on this journey, you've really got to go dig deep. So that's, yeah, that's definitely one of the things, one of the, one of the good things that's come out. I'm sure it was Instagram, it's a very good thing that came out of Instagram finding you.

Johanna: That's great, That's great. What would you say to somebody who's on the fence about joining the program?

Gabi: Honestly, I would say, how much money have you spent on all the other things? And if you've spent thousands and thousands, then what's a little bit more, what have you got to lose? Like really, what have you got to lose? But if this is someone who's really this is a big investment or it's a lot of money or whatever the case is like your health, you can't put a price on your health, but just how you feel your own dignity, your own sense of self, your own, I think that feeling of being able to walk outside the house and not feel, embarrassed or not feel like you constantly doing your hair all the time, or, that feeling in itself for that. It's a no brainer. I love how it's called Hair N' Heal, but it's really a holistic way of living. And I think that for all of us really because we don't just focus, it's not just about what you eat and I love that you say that throughout the program, that it's like it's everything, it's your lifestyle, it's all of the things combined. Like it's really it's our opening because there is so much that we just blindly accept because it's easy, and that's just what we choose, that's just what we do, which is fine, until you learn more, and you do better, and you shift from this place of being completely disempowered, to a place of feeling really empowered, and really strong, and really confident about your health, and your future. Honestly, for those reasons my biggest thing is like, what have you got to lose? Really, aside from here, what do you have to lose? Just do it, truly.

Johanna: That's fantastic, thank you so much. How soon did you see hair growth in, in the program? Do you remember which week it was or how far into it?
Gabi: It wasn't that I like I actually saw the growth. I noticed it stopped falling out, which was interesting. I'd say after about a month because it used to fall out like it was serious clumps and it was a significant change. I didn't feel itching. I don't feel itching. Maybe I'm just one of those people, I don't know, like everybody gets it differently. I haven't really felt the itching yet, but I know that there is I know that the hair is growing. I know that it's definitely coming back. So I've always had finer hair though. So that's like interesting just to, but we'll see, we'll see how it goes. I don't know, I know that it's all happening, trusting in the process. This has been a big thing for me to adjust my mental stuff, but it's also yeah, like I just, I know I can, and I can feel the difference.

Johanna: There's certain things that the return on investment for eating it is just so much bigger because it's not just now, but it's for the rest of your life.

 
Gabi: That's like another thing that I think I'll actually learn throughout this process was that, I'd gone vegan, I've been vegetarian, I've always just ethically... and I think it was, like we spoke about, just like that ethical side of being like a yogi and that's. It just never sat well with me to eat animals and that.

Johanna: This is where fertility issues come in or anything else with women's health in general, as you keep going or go into that next phase of menopause or whatever it is, the diet affects everything. It affects your hormones, the hair loss, your thyroid, the osteoporosis. Anything else that might come up or could come up or will come up in the future for us, we're doomed if we're not taking care and we don't know how to support the body now. That's really because we're doomed.

Gabi: Yeah, and you know what I think that's another thing. I don't know if I mentioned it to you, but like I was diagnosed I think also 2012. So not too soon after I started with minoxidil and that, but I think a lot of it had to do with me going on the pole and that just, that's when I really noticed my hair like thinning significantly, so it must've been a hormonal. And then when I was trying to fall pregnant, I was diagnosed with a prolactinoma, which is a benign tumor on your pituitary gland, which minuscule really small, but. What it does is it increases the it increases creating prolactin. So you lactate even, and I was lactating, even though I'd never had a baby before, it was the craziest thing in the world. But again, it was like: there's nothing that you can do, there's nothing that you can do, and sorry, and it sucks to be you. And first time around trying to pull pregnant. I was like just give me pulls and give me all the things and I'll take it. And second time around, it was quite amazing, they were like, you'll never get a period naturally, it will never happen for you. And then the second time around, when I fell, what actually happened was I'd stopped breastfeeding my son because I was trying to regulate my hormones. That was when I first found Vitex I found Ashwagandha, I found all of those herbs. I started taking sleep seriously and I did something called Lunaception. I don't know if you've heard about it, where you actually black out your room completely, like not even a light from the TV or anything like that, and then when it was full moon. There are only very few people I can speak to like this, by the way, and many other people look at me like I'm a crazy person, but then when it was the full moon, you open up the window and you let the light in. And anyway, what happened was, is that it actually naturally brought on my cycle and between the herbs and the just doing Lunaception and whatnot and sleeping properly. At that stage, my diet, I think wasn't amazing, but that brought about my cycle.

Johanna: Thank you so much. All the best keep me posted on your future progress.

Gabi: Yes, I will. I will. I will. All right, Johanna good luck with your move.

Johanna: Good night. Sweet dreams.

Gabi: Bye.

Johanna: Bye bye.