Have you noticed your hair thinning, becoming brittle, or seemingly refusing to grow? You're not alone, and it's not just about your hair. This week on The Hormone Prosperity Podcast, Dr. Kyrin shatters the myth that hair issues are purely cosmetic and dives deep into the systemic imbalances that could be wreaking havoc on midlife women’s health.

Abby shared her story this week—her hair has become so thin that even her hairdresser hesitates to cut it. Despite trying hair vitamins, special shampoos, and unique pillowcases, she’s still frustrated and seeking answers. Sound familiar? If so, this episode is for you.

Beyond the Hairbrush

Dr. Kyrin reveals a profound truth many doctors overlook—struggles with hair are often the symptom of something much bigger. It's not just your hair. Every cell and every system in your body could be waving a red flag that points to "hormonal poverty," a condition that affects your vitality, confidence, and long-term health.

Hair is the canary in the coal mine, signaling global systemic dysfunction. While mainstream doctors might treat hair loss as a minor inconvenience, Dr. Kyrin shows why it's crucial to dig deeper and uncover the root cause—what she calls the "root and soil" problem.

Signs You’re Experiencing More Than Just a ‘Hair Problem’

Dr. Kyrin explains that hair loss often goes hand-in-hand with other seemingly unrelated issues, which she terms "midlife metabolic mayhem," including:

• Poor sleep quality

• Fatigue, even after rest

• Brain fog or difficulty concentrating

• Weight gain

• Gastrointestinal discomfort

She encourages listeners to assess the entire picture of their health instead of hyper-focusing on individual symptoms.

What Your Doctor Might Be Missing

Traditional medicine tends to treat symptoms rather than searching for underlying causes. Many doctors aren't trained to connect issues like hair loss with deeper hormonal imbalances. But Dr. Kyrin flips the script, guiding you on how to look beyond the surface for answers.

She uses the analogy of a tree—your hair might be the wilting leaves, but the problem lies in the roots and the soil. By tackling the foundational health issues, you don’t just fix your hair; you heal from the inside out.

Your Call to Action

1. Take the Free Hormonal Poverty Quiz

Could you be in hormonal poverty? Find out in just 90 seconds!

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2. Join the Hormone Bliss Challenge

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Podcast Episode Transcript: 

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (00:00):

When you have a skin hair nail problem, it is indicative of global systemic dysfunction coming from serious root and soil problems that need to be identified. 'cause It's not only your hair that's being affected, I promise you it's every cell in every system in your body. Greetings friend, welcome to the Hormone Prosperity Podcast with me, the hormone prosperity coach, Dr. Kyrin. Here's where intelligent women over 40 go to get credible guidance and inspiration on getting out of hormonal poverty and into hormonal prosperity and the joy and vitality that brings. Go from asking disempowering questions like, what's wrong with me? To asking empowering questions like, what would hormonal prosperity do? Hashtag ww HPD. Join me as we dive into today's episode and get started on your journey off the couch, into your gene and back into life, because bliss is your birthright and a healthy body filled with hormonal prosperity is the vehicle that gets you there. Welcome. Let's get started.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (01:12):

In this video, we're gonna answer Abby's question, which is a wonderful question that I get. So often. She's saying that her hair stopped growing when she went into menopause and she's really struggling. So much so that her hairdresser, the last time she went for her hair, told her she was uncomfortable cutting Abby's hair because it had become so thin and sparse and wasn't growing that she wasn't willing to do it. And she's extremely frustrated. She says she takes hair vitamins, she sleeps on a special pillow case. She uses very special shampoo and conditioner, and she takes extra special care of her curly hair. Where are my curly hair girls? Because curly hair is a little bit more fragile, it becomes knotted and tangled. But even if you have straight hair, if you have fine hair, even if you have traditionally thick hair, it can get thinner and sparser and stop growing as you go into perimenopause and menopause.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (02:16):

So I love this question. Thank you Abby. We're gonna tackle this. So lack of hair growth, hair loss, sparse hair, this is a huge problem. That is one of the symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem that you might have experienced or maybe someone you know and love is experiencing. And as Abby pointed out, she talked to her doctor about this, maybe you have too. And her doctor basically just scratches their head and doesn't have any answers for her. That used to be me when I practiced mainstream medicine as well, because we are not really taught about hair and, and as a gynecologist or a GP or internal medicine practitioner, that's not really our main concerns. It's considered more cosmetic. And so it's not something that's focused on. But as a woman myself, I know how important your hair is to your sense of wellbeing and how good you feel in your skin, your quality of life, how you present yourself and your confidence, right?

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (03:21):

We all know that for women and men and, and also that it is very important. So let's dive into this. What is your doctor missing? So what your doctor is missing. So first I would say to you, Abby, that probably hair loss or hair sparsity, lack of hair growth is not your only problem. So I like to say when I help women identify what's causing their hormonal poverty at any age is you've got to get honest with yourself. And this is actually the first chapter in my book. You gotta get honest because it's never one health problem. And the reason why it's important to identify all the symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem that you're having is because if you don't identify all the symptoms, you won't come to the right conclusion about the cause of those symptoms. We talked in another video about how the symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem are actually the signposts pointing to the problem.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (04:27):

They are not the problem themselves. So you've got one symptom signpost pointing hair loss to certain types of hormonal poverty. But what are your other signposts telling you? Probably, I would bet, you know, I say that symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem like ants at a picnic, there's never one, right? You're at a picnic. There's never just one ant at the picnic. You see one, you know, there are hundreds more somewhere, right? That's just how ants at a picnic are, and that's how symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem are. But I find that most women get so hyper-focused on the one problem that's causing them the most distressed at the moment, and they become myopic and don't see or talk to their doctor about the others. Now, there may not be any point in talking to your mainstream doctor about the other symptoms because they don't have the lens that, that I've been taught to look at these problems and to look down into the soil for the root cause that's causing all the leaves and branches of the tree or different ones, right?

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (05:36):

So one of your leaf and branch problems is you have a hair problem. What are on your other leaf and branch problems, right? Do you have difficulty sleeping? Are you sleeping all night but you're waking up and you're not rested or you want a nap in the afternoon or you're needing coffee, caffeine in the morning, you've become caffeine dependent. Or maybe on another branch you've got gastrointestinal problems that you don't even think are related to your hormones, but they are secret, they are. So maybe you're going to the gastroenterologist because you have irritable bowel and you don't know if you're gonna poop seven times in one day or not for seven days, right? So these are all your leaf and branch problems, but what I help you do is go down the chunk of the tree into the roots and the soil. These are all the causes of all your leaf and branch problems, right?

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (06:27):

Because if a tree has a problem, the symptoms are gonna be in the leaves and branches, but the cause is going to be in the roots and the soil. So you, your mainstream doctor probably isn't gonna see it that way because that's not how they're taught. They're taught what is the symptom? What's the diagnosis? What drug do I need to give? What surgery do I need to do? It's kind of like a reflex. Like when the doctor hits your knee with the reflex hammer, your foot kicks out. So you tell your doctor the symptoms and then they treat the symptoms, but they don't have a drug for your hair symptom, right? So that's why they kind of scratch their head and go, maybe your doctor has kind of looked that way at you. But what I wanna tell you is if you have symptoms, there is always a reason why.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (07:14):

Do not take no for an answer and just keep digging until you find the doctor who can help you, who knows how to go down into the soil and the roots and fix it. So you've got to Abby, identify and everybody else. What are all the other symptoms you have? Maybe you've got a fatigue problem, a sleep problem, a weight problem. These are some of the most common a brain fog problem, which we talked about in another video. Gastrointestinal problem, which we'll be talking about in another video. Maybe you've got a neurologic problem. Maybe you have an arthritis problem, joint problem, musculoskeletal problem. Every system, every cell in your body contributes to the whole, and I like to say skin, hair and nails are like the canary in the coal mine. So what do I mean by that? When you have a skin hair nail problem, it is indicative of global systemic dysfunction coming from serious root and soil problems that need to be identified.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (08:19):

'Cause It's not only your hair that's being affected, I promise you it's every cell in every system in your body is affected by hormonal poverty, which increases your risk for seven out of the top 10 causes of death, right? And you don't know this and your mainstream doctor isn't possibly aware of this or telling you this. So you, you know, gone are the days when you can just abdicate control of your health to your doctor and say, oh, they poked and prodded me, drew some blood, and they told me I'm fine. Right? If that's all you're getting, what you're missing is huge, right? You're only looking at the top of the iceberg that's sticking out of the water and saying, you're fine. But what sunk the Titanic was what was underneath the massive iceberg, right? And it's the same with your health. It's all the things you are not looking at, you are not aware of.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (09:13):

So it's, that's why I'm doing this, is to teach you and educate you about all the things you are not aware of. So Abby and everyone else with these hair problems, look at all the symptoms, get honest, and I help you with an inventory and my hormone list challenge to really start reading the tea leaves and understanding what are all my hormone poverty symptoms. You can start with the hormone poverty quiz. That will give you a good idea because even everyone you tick on there says, Hmm, she could be in hormonal poverty, which is very serious. And I don't, I want you to stop, I gotta shake you awake to stop thinking, oh, it's just my hormones. It's not a big deal. Stop as a woman, your hormones form the foundation of your health and vitality. If your hormones aren't right, nothing else will be right.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (10:10):

And I know doctors have not taught you this. They act like hormones are some little accessory pack that just gives you the capacity to reproduce children. And what I want you to know is that that is a lie. Your hormones as a woman form the very foundation of your entire health system, how it communicates and how it functions. So if your hormones aren't right, your health will never be right. So it's imperative upon you to identify why you're in hormonal poverty and get to hormonal prosperity because everything that you want happens inside hormonal prosperity, right? And so, hashtag ww PD, what would hormonal prosperity do? So you can start thinking about Abby and everybody else with these health problems. When you get your hair straight, when you get your sleep weight, all these symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem straight, how are you gonna spend all the energy and vitality that you have with hormonal from the hormonal prosperity that you create?

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (11:16):

Thank you so much for this question, Abby. Hopefully this has helped, gave you some insight into what goes into making healthy hair that there is always a cause. If you're not getting the answers that you want from your mainstream doctor, you're not alone. It is not your fault. You just need to stop going to the hardware store for milk. They don't have milk at the hardware store. They mainstream doctor doesn't have answers to these symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem. And I hope you'll consider taking the quiz if that would be of service for you. Or join me for the Hormone Bliss Challenge so you can learn more about how to identify why you're in hormonal poverty and get out of it and get into hormonal pupi. Thanks so much for the question, Abby and I will see you in the next video. Until then, peace, love, and hormones. Y'all,

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (12:20):

Thank you so much for joining me on your journey from hormonal poverty into the promised land of hormonal prosperity. Loved today's episode. Share it with someone you care about, love the show. Consider writing a review and help other women find it too. Remember, we're all in this together right now. There are well over 100 million women suffering in hormonal poverty without answers. Please be of service by sharing, rating and reviewing the show. Help us reach at least 1 million of these women this coming year from one previously suffering woman to another. I thank you. See you next week.