Hi everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Alopecia Angel podcast: Awaken to Hair growth. I'm your host, Johanna Dalman, and today we're gonna be talking about alopecia and really give a good understanding of what this looks like. Many times you hear the word alopecia and sometimes people automatically think it is the autoimmune type, and that could be true.

But a lot of times as well, people are referring to the universal definition, which is the medical term for hair loss. Alopecia is the medical term for hair loss. And so with this in mind, you have an umbrella that has many buckets underneath it, you have scarring, alopecia, traction alopecia, postpartum alopecia, thyroid induced hormonal. You have stress induced, you have so many other types of hair loss, including the autoimmune, which is alopecia, areata, totalis, and universalis. But you also have female pattern baldness, you also have male pattern baldness, you also have various types of scarring, which is also a different umbrella.

And so the thing is, when people are referring to alopecia, more than likely they are saying hair loss ' cause that is the medical term for hair loss. So hair loss and alopecia are interchangeable. And then from there you have the different types. You could have autoimmune, you can have thyroid, you can have, one type or another type, diffused telogen effluvium. There's so many different types of. Hair loss. That's first and foremost. I wanted to give you a basic foundation of that, but then also let you know about the different types that we've had success with, which is all the above.

Including the scarring, including the autoimmune, including the thyroid, stress, postpartum, hormonal, and of course including, autoimmune female pattern, androgenic alopecia because all these types can be helped. We focus primarily with women and children, but also men who are going through autoimmune. And so this is something that, that is near and dear to my heart. 'cause as you may or may not know, I've had alopecia areata. I lost over 50% of my hair, including eyebrows, eyelashes, and an inch of forehead.

And it was 4 years of grueling hard work to really understand of what was going on, how this was happening, why this was happening, and how for it never to come back. I'm happy to report it's been more than nine years and I don't have hair loss, I've never had hair loss since, and I've never had alopecia since alopecia areata for that matter. I'm in my mid 40s and I have nice, thick care that grows at an inch rate a month, and you can

gauge this with my highlights. There's the marker right there, and with my gray hairs that popping on the sides.

This is possible, not just for me, but also for anyone who wants to heal. You don't need a skill to heal, you just need a professional who's gonna get you there, who has the proven results, who has a strategic path for you, customized to you and to your needs to support your body. The thing is, the one size fits all approaches do not work. So the minoxidils, the laser caps, the wigs, the serums, the lotions, the potions, the vitamins, the supplements that are just for hair, nails, and skin. These actually, all of these things could be backfiring, creating more harm, or maybe even producing more hair loss .

And so this is a situation that becomes a slippery slope because once you are in the midst of hair loss, then you want to heal it. You want to see the hair growth, you want the hair loss to stop. I understand where you're at. I understand exactly because I've been in your shoes. But the thing is, it's like we're trying to stick and throw so many things to the wall and having something stick, but that's not the way to do it. The way to do it is to really deep dive into your situation, past, present, and future, and understand with an expert eye to see exactly what's going on and how we can fix it.

Maybe about 3 podcast episodes ago, I. Talk to you about my gut health coach who we spoke here recently. She is a client of mine, she's a gut health coach and she's a client of mine inside the Hair N' Heal program. And literally in 24 hours, her hair stopped shedding, and she's been shedding and she's been having hair loss for over 20 years. And so, regardless of the background, regardless of the knowledge, we all have blind spots. And that is something that again, we need to have somebody on the outside be able to see it. So this is actually very key because many times we don't see our own mistakes.

I'm guilty of this myself, and this is why it took me 4 years because it was just constant trying to be self-aware, trying to be self-aware, trying to understand where I was going wrong, to see what more I needed to do. Until I had my eureka moment, I was still struggling. And so we all have that option, we can either struggle with hair loss or we can talk to the professional who's had the results and get our hair growing in less time. Right now I'm offering the free training on hormones and thyroids. So if you would like that, you can go to my website and then right up the top you'll see the free training and you can also learn more about the Hair N' Heal program on my website right at the top as well. It'll say Hair N' Heal and you can understand and see more, and also learn about the success stories.

And again, we've had success with various types of hair loss, including autoimmune, traction, scarring, hormonal, thyroid female pattern baldness. One thing to note about female pattern baldness is that I have a previous podcast episode on blind spots just for female pattern baldness, which is also known as androgenic alopecia. But the other thing is that there are certain things that don't help necessarily female pattern baldness or androgenic alopecia. I have clients who come to me and they're like: I'm taking saw palmetto and I'm taking nettle and I'm taking this and I'm taking that. Many of these

things don't work for you. And even though Google may say it does, and even though an internet search may say it does, there's nothing proven to show that it actually does.

And so first and foremost, a lot of times we, and I say we, and I include myself 'cause I was in your shoes at one point, is that we are trying to do all these things and we feel we're doing all these things in order to get and garner the results that we're looking for, but really we're wasting our time. We're running around in circles, trying to chase our tail, and we're still defeated, we're deflated, frustrated and still seeing more hair loss. And so it's really where you are at a crossroads. At what point are you gonna say it's enough? I'm tired of doing this on my own, I'm tired of trying to figure this out on my own and I want the help of somebody who can get me there in less than eight weeks because that's what I can do. It's a proven method and I'm here to show you that it's possible for you too.

I do recommend for those of you with androgenic alopecia. To go review that one podcast episode. I'll link it up in the show notes so that you can hear about these blind spots straight for female pattern baldness. But there's also free PDFs on my webpage for medications that cause hair loss, for hair loss products that are in lawsuits or that have been in lawsuits because they do cause hair loss. And this is a tricky one because sometimes they don't come forward until years later. I've been using a product since I was like 15 years old, I'm in my 40s, so imagine I've been using a product from 15 years of age that's over 4 decades almost and lo and behold, they took off this moose that I used to use in 2023. They took it off the market, citing that the ingredients cause cancer.

How long does a manufacturer need to know or is hiding this information for this to actually come forth and develop in humans? And so that's something to also take into consideration is that, we may be doing quote unquote all the things now, but a lot of these things are not in our best interest for now or even in our future because a lot of these things backfire.

And I talk about that a lot in inside the Hair N' Heal program, but a lot of times within my previous podcast episodes and also within the free PDFs, you can find that as well. I also mentioned some blind spots inside the free training for the hormone and thyroid free training that's going on right now, so I highly recommend that you go forth and join that webinar. The other thing I wanted to note that if this is your first time that you're diagnosed with alopecia, welcome, you are in good company. You're speaking to somebody who's not only healed herself from alopecia, but also thousands of people in over 67 countries, and I've been doing this for over 7 years.

I absolutely love what I do because it was so heartbreaking, gut wrenching, and such a struggle, such an uphill battle in terms of getting relief, getting results, getting back to normalcy, back to my normal state of happiness and wellbeing, where now it's priceless. It's absolutely priceless to have beautiful hair and to have a great hair day every day, to not have to worry about another day of shedding, to not have to worry about another stressful time, to not have to worry about anything that could be implicating, causing, or triggering my hair loss, because none of that's gonna happen. And so when you have

the knowledge and when you implement the knowledge and when you have the tools within your hands, this is what empowers you in order to have the hair and live your best life.

So I welcome you because you don't need skills, you don't need to be a researcher, you don't need to have a PhD, you don't need to have, be a dietician, a pharmacist, a functional medicine doctor or personal trainer or anything else, which all these people are my clients as well. What you need is a will to want to heal, then the desire to do so and implement. That's all. It's a strategic approach tailored to you, and this is a no fail proven method, so you can heal in less time.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us any point at any time. You can always reach us out [email protected]. Follow us on YouTube, on Instagram, Facebook, and also on the podcast rate and review. I look forward to helping you and answering any and all your questions.

Take care.