Menopause Hair Loss -
FORCED to Wear a Wig!

No woman wants to lose enough hair that she needs to wear a wig, at least I've never met one who did.

On the other hand, no woman wants to go around bald either.

So what causes women to lose their hair within a few years after menopause, or possibly even before they get to menopause?

We'll answer that question in a minute...

But first, let me assure you although I'm not an expert on this topic, I have consulted the experts.

So I'm giving you the best natural answers for this menopause symptom. I've also told you who some of the experts are, so you can read them for yourself if you want to.

I have a close friend who finally started wearing a wig due to her thinning hair, so I'm hoping my research will be helpful to her, as well as to you.

Causes of Menopause Hair Loss

Specifically, many women make very little progesterone for several years before menopause, and none at all once they are menopausal. Progesterone is a very important hormone. One of the reasons for this is that it is used to make many of the other hormones in our bodies, including the different kinds of estrogen.

If we don't have enough progesterone for our bodies to use in making the estrogens and other needed hormones, our bodies make a similar substance called androstenedione. This hormone can also be used for making the other hormones in a similar way to progesterone. However, this hormone also results in some symptoms that are usually found in men -- in this case, hair loss.

Dr. Lee says this only happens if you are lacking the enzymes or co-factors, usually vitamins and minerals, your body needs to change the androstenedione to estrogen.

I have tried to make this explanation as short and simple as possible, but if you'd like the more complicated medical explanation, you can find that in either of Dr. John R. Lee's books. What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause (TM): The Breakthrough Book on Natural Hormone Balance, or What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life From Thirty to Fifty. These books are available from Amazon by clicking the preceding links, or if you don't want to buy them, you can probably get them from your local library.

If you don't have the time to read the whole book, you can use the index to simply read the sections that explain the hormonal shifts that result in female hair loss.

Break the Connection --
Stop Menopause Hair Loss

How?

I know of at least three ways to make this happen:

1. Probably the surest, and best way is to use a natural progesterone cream to balance your hormone levels.

   In short, although doctors and the media talk a lot about low estrogen after menopause, for most women, progesterone levels fall much more than do estrogen levels. The body compensates by making androstenedione so that it can make estrogen and other needed hormones.

   If you restore a natural level of progesterone, the body will quit making more adrostenedione and a side effect will be that your hair will grow back.

   Dr. Lee says it frequently takes four to six months for this to happen, so don't get impatient and give up too soon thinking it isn't working for you.
   

2. Another possible way to resolve the problem is by being sure that your levels of enzymes or enzyme co-factors,(these are usually vitamins and minerals) needed to change androstenedione to estrogen are not too low. The enzyme that makes this change is called aromatase, but there doesn't seem to be a lot written on what causes low levels of it.

   So although I've tried to research exactly how you could go about this, the only concrete information I could find is that insulin resistance tends to cause this problem.

   I believe this means that controlling excess weight gain would probably be the most helpful way to avoid this problem.

   Although theoretically this could work, practically, for you it might not. Nonetheless you could try it, if hormone supplementation is something you can't or won't try.
   

3. Finally, you could try an herbal remedy called Nettle. Dr. Mark Stengler recommended this in his book called Natural Physician's Healing Therapies: Proven Remedies that Medical Doctors Don't Know. He says it has been used historically for hair loss and to improve hair health. But he also mentions that it would probably be most helpful if the hair loss is caused by anemia.

   If on the other hand the hair loss is caused by a hormonal imbalance, the use of a progesterone cream will probably be most effective.

   Conclusion

   Menopause hair loss is not an inevitable result of growing older, nor is it something there's nothing you can do about.

   If you are willing to supplement with natural progesterone cream, this menopause symptoms should become a thing of the past within a few months time.

   If you can't or won't use natural progesterone, the problem will be much more difficult to resolve, but there are still a couple of ways you may be able to overcome menopause hair loss. Please don't be afraid to give them a try.
   
   

   
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