Your Hair Loss Might Be Coming From Your Gut

Many of my patients come to me with chronic hair loss. They’ve been to dermatologists, and are told there’s nothing wrong. All the lab markers look perfect. They’ve tried biotin, the classic hair loss supplement, and a number of other products marketed to regrow hair—to no avail.

“But clearly something’s wrong!” they tell me. Some say they used to have a thick, full head of hair and now they’re down to half, or sometimes even a quarter of what they used to have. Others say their significant others comment on how much hair they shed throughout the house.

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