The Growth Journal

Why Is My Hair Thinning During Menopause? The H...

If you've noticed more hair in the plughole, a parting that seems to widen every month, or a ponytail that feels half the size it used to be, you are...

Why Is My Hair Thinning During Menopause? The H...

If you've noticed more hair in the plughole, a parting that seems to widen every month, or a ponytail that feels half the size it used to be, you are...

Perimenopause Hair Loss: Why It Starts Before Y...

One of the crueller tricks of perimenopause is that nobody tells you it has started. Your periods are still arriving, if a little unpredictably. You're years away from anything officially...

Perimenopause Hair Loss: Why It Starts Before Y...

One of the crueller tricks of perimenopause is that nobody tells you it has started. Your periods are still arriving, if a little unpredictably. You're years away from anything officially...

Menopause Hair Loss: Will My Hair Grow Back?

It's the question sitting underneath every other question. Beneath the searching, the forum lurking, the supplement comparisons, there's one thing you actually want to know: will I ever get my...

Menopause Hair Loss: Will My Hair Grow Back?

It's the question sitting underneath every other question. Beneath the searching, the forum lurking, the supplement comparisons, there's one thing you actually want to know: will I ever get my...

DHT and Female Hair Loss: What Every Woman Over...

Search "DHT hair loss" and you'll find page after page written for men. Norwood scales, receding hairlines, before-and-after photos of blokes in their twenties. Almost nothing written for a 52-year-old...

DHT and Female Hair Loss: What Every Woman Over...

Search "DHT hair loss" and you'll find page after page written for men. Norwood scales, receding hairlines, before-and-after photos of blokes in their twenties. Almost nothing written for a 52-year-old...

Saw Palmetto for Women's Hair Loss: What the Re...

If you've spent any time in menopause forums or hair loss communities, you'll have seen saw palmetto mentioned again and again. "My shedding slowed within two weeks." "My scalp is...

Saw Palmetto for Women's Hair Loss: What the Re...

If you've spent any time in menopause forums or hair loss communities, you'll have seen saw palmetto mentioned again and again. "My shedding slowed within two weeks." "My scalp is...

"You're Just Getting Older": What to Do When Yo...

You spend three weeks working up to it. You've rehearsed the sentence in your head. You finally say, in a seven-minute appointment about something else, that your hair is falling...

"You're Just Getting Older": What to Do When Yo...

You spend three weeks working up to it. You've rehearsed the sentence in your head. You finally say, in a seven-minute appointment about something else, that your hair is falling...

Ferritin and Hair Loss: Why "Normal" Iron Level...

Here's a scenario I hear constantly, almost word for word. A woman with heavy shedding finally gets her bloods done. Her ferritin comes back at 15, or 18, or 22....

Ferritin and Hair Loss: Why "Normal" Iron Level...

Here's a scenario I hear constantly, almost word for word. A woman with heavy shedding finally gets her bloods done. Her ferritin comes back at 15, or 18, or 22....

Minoxidil for Women: The Dread Shed, the Commit...

Minoxidil, which you probably know as Regaine, is one of the very few licensed treatments for female pattern hair loss. Let me be completely fair from the outset: it works...

Minoxidil for Women: The Dread Shed, the Commit...

Minoxidil, which you probably know as Regaine, is one of the very few licensed treatments for female pattern hair loss. Let me be completely fair from the outset: it works...

How to Style and Care for Thinning Hair During ...

While you're working on regrowth from the inside, which takes months and there's no way around that, you still have to face the mirror every morning. And you still have...

How to Style and Care for Thinning Hair During ...

While you're working on regrowth from the inside, which takes months and there's no way around that, you still have to face the mirror every morning. And you still have...

What Is DHT and Why Is It Making You Bald? A Pl...

If you're losing your hair, one three-letter hormone is almost certainly behind it: DHT. Understand what it is and what it does, and the entire confusing world of hair loss...

What Is DHT and Why Is It Making You Bald? A Pl...

If you're losing your hair, one three-letter hormone is almost certainly behind it: DHT. Understand what it is and what it does, and the entire confusing world of hair loss...

Finasteride Side Effects: An Honest Look at the...

Let's start with something a hair supplement company probably isn't supposed to say: finasteride works. It's the most effective licensed medication for male pattern hair loss. It has decades of...

Finasteride Side Effects: An Honest Look at the...

Let's start with something a hair supplement company probably isn't supposed to say: finasteride works. It's the most effective licensed medication for male pattern hair loss. It has decades of...

Natural DHT Blockers: Which Ones Have Actual Ev...

Search "natural DHT blocker" and you'll get lists of twenty ingredients, most backed by nothing more substantial than a test tube and some wishful thinking. Somebody put nettle root in...

Natural DHT Blockers: Which Ones Have Actual Ev...

Search "natural DHT blocker" and you'll get lists of twenty ingredients, most backed by nothing more substantial than a test tube and some wishful thinking. Somebody put nettle root in...