Hair, Hormones, and the Symptoms Nobody Warned You About
This episode covers three angles on menopause symptoms that tend to get missed or misread. Nykki looks at the real biology behind midlife hair thinning, a new paper that reframes FSH as a whole-body hormone, and the surprising symptoms that are common in menopause but rarely connected to it. Key Takeaways: • Hair thinning in midlife is driven by a hormonal shift at the follicle level — as estrogen drops, androgens like DHT take over and gradually shrink the follicle, which is a medical process, not just "getting older." • FSH, long understood only as a reproductive hormone, may also regulate…
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