If you have been told your hair loss is just perimenopause, or you are considering HRT or birth control, this episode explains what you need to know first.
Inside this episode:
Johanna is joined by Cristy Murray, a board-certified family nurse practitioner with 25 years of clinical experience and the founder of Blue Veil Wellness, a women’s health practice built on root-cause care. They start with a shared frustration: perimenopause gets blamed for almost everything after 35, hair loss included, when the real issue is often years of neglected diet and lifestyle finally catching up.
Cristy explains why she makes lifestyle changes with patients before reaching for estrogen, and why a one-time blood draw can be misleading when hormones change daily. She shares how she uses Creighton Model cycle charting to see stress and ovulation patterns and to time lab work to each woman’s cycle. She also describes how a home urine hormone monitor showed her that her own HRT patch was too strong.
They cover the questions to ask before starting HRT: where your practitioner trained and how recently, which type of estrogen they prescribe, and whether they use progesterone or a synthetic progestin. Cristy also explains why birth control masks cycle problems rather than resolving them, and gives mothers simple steps to track their teen daughter’s cycle. She shares how changing her personal care products and food storage was part of her own three-year journey to pregnancy.
What you will learn:
- Why perimenopause is so often blamed for hair loss, and what may really be going on
- Why lifestyle changes come before HRT in Cristy’s practice
- How cycle charting can reveal stress, ovulation and the best time to test hormones
- Why you need progesterone too if estrogen is part of your HRT
- The difference between the three types of estrogen, and between progesterone and progestin
- What birth control does to your cycle and why it doesn’t address the root cause
- Simple ways to track your cycle, or your daughter’s, without an app
Who this episode is for:
Women in their 30s, 40s and 50s dealing with hair thinning or shedding, anyone who has been told their symptoms are just perimenopause or menopause, and anyone considering HRT or birth control. It is also for mothers of teen and pre-teen daughters with painful or heavy periods, and for women trying to conceive.
About the show:
On Awaken to Hair Growth, Johanna Dahlman shares what she learned reversing her own alopecia areata and what more than ten years of working with clients in over 68 countries has taught her. Each week brings root-cause education, client stories and practical guidance for anyone dealing with hair loss.
If hormones may be playing a part in your hair loss, the Hair N’ Heal Program is where Johanna and her team look at the full picture.
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Alopecia Angel is dedicated to those seeking a holistic, natural, and safe approach to healing Alopecia from the inside out! The main force behind Alopecia Angel is a deep desire to help individuals achieve what I achieved with a natural treatment option, a well-rounded approach to health, wellness, and reversing Alopecia naturally without antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, cortisone shots to the head, or embarrassing creams.
After seeing results with my multi-tiered natural Alopecia treatment, targeting mind, body, nutrition, environment, and other elements, I decided I wanted to share my findings and let others know that a natural, safe, and holistic method does in fact exist to regrow hair from alopecia.
