How to Prevent and Reverse Hair Loss with Diet- seen on Oprah!

Found on Oprah's website: I felt compelled to share. Anything that gives us hope- I want to try to share. This is from the show that aired Feb 18th. Ask Dr. Christiane Northrup

Christiane Northrup discusses how the right type of diet can reverse the hormonal imbalances that cause hair loss. And how eating low glycemic foods can actually reverse the thinning process. Yay!! Thank goodness for Tivo- can't wait to watch.

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According to Dr. Northrup, glycemic foods can cause dramatic changes in the body. "One of the things that often happens in mid-life to people is if they have a lot of stress hormones in their system and they're eating a high-glycemic diet, and the high insulin is in their blood from the high sugar … that actually changes the way hormones are metabolized. So you actually begin to shoot your estrogen and progesterone into androgen-like substances that produce male pattern baldness in women. Have you seen this—where [women] start to get a beard and they get thinning of the hair at the temples and so on?"

Other than a low-glycemic diet, Dr. Northrup has one other recommendation for thinning hair. "Acupuncture can be very, very helpful for it," she says.