Nobody warns you about the hair you lose

Every woman with PMOS/PCOS gets warned about the extra hair she is going to get.

The chin, the jaw, belly, the upper lip.

The “too much, in the wrong places”.

Nobody warned me about the hair I was going to lose.

My best friend was the one who told me.

It was our girls night out and she said it the way you say something you have been holding onto for a while. “Teo, I think something is off with your hair”.

I haven’t even noticed.

That is the worse part.

You live inside your own body and you miss the small things.

And then someone names it.

And the moment someone names it, you cannot unsee it.

Well. Thank you, friend.

I went home and looked at it properly. It was so thin!

For a long time I asked the only question that seemed to matter.

How do I stop losing my hair…

That was the wrong question.

Let’s talk hormones

The question was never how do I stop losing my hair.

The question was what is the hair loss trying to report.

Because hair doesn’t just fall for no reason.

It falls when something upstream is off, and in PCOS that something almost always starts in the same place.

Your blood sugar!!!

Here is the chain:

Once you see it, you cannot blame yourself for it again.

Your cells stop responding well to insulin > Which means your body makes more insulin to compensate > Which means high insulin circulating all day > Which means your ovaries get told to pump out more androgens, testosterone being the main one > Which means SHBG, the protein whose whole job is to keep testosterone parked, drops > Which means even more free testosterone roaming around with nothing holding it back.

And here is the part that broke my brain.

Androgens GROW hair on your face and THIN the hair on your head.

So the woman growing hair on her jaw and the woman losing it from her crown are the same signal, read by 2 different parts of the body.

There was one more piece for me.

I had cut meat for years, and my iron stores were on the floor (that’s what happens when you follow random trends online 🤡)

Your hair follicles are some of the most demanding tissue you have. When iron and ferritin run low, your body makes the decision: hair is not essential for survival, so it gets cut from the budget first.

For years, none of this caught my attention.

I went through my PCOS alone… more than 10 yrs.

The only thing I was ever offered was the pill, and when I came off it my cycle stopped making any sense at all.

And I connected none of the symptoms back to hormones.

Not even the hair I was losing.

Not even the extra weight I gained.

Not even the rage.

I thought that was just me: moody, indecisive.. “the rebel”.

It took me years to understand that “the rebel” was a hormone signal wearing a personality costume.

I am not ashamed of that anymore.

I just wish someone had told me sooner that my body was compensating.

What I actually did

One mistake, mine included.

You go straight for the scalp serums and the biotin and you wonder why nothing holds.

The hair is the top of the pyramid.

After some trial and error, I started working at the base.

1. I started eating meat again

I had spent years proud of a diet that was literally starving my follicles of iron, B12 and the protein hair is literally built from. Bringing meat back refilled the stores my body needed.

2. I ate 30 different plants a week

Plant diversity feeds the gut bacteria that help regulate blood sugar and clear used hormones out of your body. Studies show that 30+ plants a week is the target for a strong gut microbiome.

3. I built every meal around blood sugar

This is the one underneath all the others. Insulin sits at the base of the pyramid, and every spike was pouring fuel on the androgen fire. So I stopped eating carbs naked. Stable blood sugar means less insulin, which means less of the androgen surge that was thinning my hair in the first place.

4. I gave my hair direct support while the foundation rebuilt

Fixing the base takes time, and I wanted to back the follicles directly while the rest caught up.

About a year and a half ago I started using Scandinavian Biolabs, their hair 🔗Growth Routine. I try to use the serum every day. I miss a day here and there, I will be honest, but I am consistent maybe 80% of the time, and that has been enough.

I have never had so many baby hairs in my life!!!!

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It is the top layer, not the base. The food and the blood sugar are still the real work, the boring work nobody sells you.

But while that rebuilds underneath, this gave my follicles something to work with now.

Your body is just prioritising

If you take one thing from this, take this.

Whatever you are going through right now, the symptom, the diagnosis, the thing that makes you feel like your body turned on you, hear me out…

Your body is intelligent. It is talking to you.

What you are feeling is not a malfunction.

It is a map.

Every symptom is pointing you toward the systems that are working too hard, covering for the systems that are slacking.

The hair I lost was never the problem.

It was the messenger.

And the day I stopped trying to silence the messenger and started reading what it was pointing at, it started coming back (the hair included).

Love, Teo

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