How to Get Thicker Hair Even As You Age
Bodies go through myriad changes as we age. Your weight fluctuates, you experience stress, you might go through pregnancy, and your hormones shift. Whatever changes occur, your body takes it all on and reflects it back to you physically.
Our hair, not just an aesthetic choice, reflects these changes throughout our lives. Everyone starts somewhere different, whether you are blonde, brunette, or redhead, straight or curly, thick or thin. What is consistent for everyone is that your hair will change as you go through all of the different stages of life.
Unfortunately, these changes aren’t always for the better. Stress, bad diet, hormonal changes, and weight loss can all leave the hair feeling more brittle, dry, and thin.
Hair is personal, and these changes can take a toll on your confidence over time. At TeleHealthNP, our goal is to help people not only to lose weight but to achieve their best, most confident self. That’s why we now offer a new product to help you get thicker hair even through all of those changes.
Let’s take a deep dive into how aging and weight loss can affect your hair, and how to reverse thinning and get thicker, healthier hair.
Hair Loss and Weight Loss
One of the downsides of weight loss can be more fallout and overall thinner, less healthy hair. This is so common, in fact, that we already have a blog post on this topic! You can take a look at it here.
Weight loss related hair loss is a common condition known as telogen effluvium. This is a temporary condition that occurs due to stress on the body.
Stress can come in many forms including hormonal changes especially after giving birth, medications like beta-blockers, retinoids, and others. It can also be caused by nutritional deficiencies, especially a lack of protein, fatty acids, zinc, or iron.
Weight loss in itself is a stressful event for the body, and can cause hormonal changes and physical stress. It can also be easy to lack proper nutrition when you are eating in a calorie deficit and it is important to be mindful about maintaining a balanced diet.
Although this condition is temporary, with symptoms typically lasting three to six months, those months can be painful for people who are already undergoing a physical and mental transformation when losing weight.
Hair Loss and Aging
Thinning hair is also a natural part of aging and can be exacerbated by a few factors. The first of these factors is genetics. Women are more likely to experience hair loss if they have close relatives who do too.
Your hormones also influence the amount and thickness of your hair. Not only do some women experience changes to their hair after pregnancy, but the hormone changes that occur during menopause can also cause hair loss.
Hair loss can also be a sign of an underlying health condition such as anemia, a thyroid condition, or vitamin deficiencies. Additionally, the medications that help us with age related health conditions can cause hair loss. Examples of these include blood pressure medications, gout medications, beta blockers, and even excessive vitamin A.
Although some hair thinning is normal as your body changes, you can still slow or even reverse this thinning through prescription medications and holistic changes to your health and diet.
What’s in the Product?
Many of our patients are women who are feeling the impacts of aging, and our goal is always to help them and others look and feel like their best and most confident selves. Confidence doesn’t always come down to just achieving your goal weight, but truly loving who you see in the mirror looking back at you.
That’s why we now carry Hair Growth Foam which has five incredible ingredients which all work together to give you thicker, healthier hair. In this foam you will find minoxidil, melatonin, GHK-cu, tretinoin, and caffeine, five powerful ingredients that are clinically proven to give you thicker, fuller hair.
Let’s break down how each of these ingredients works to improve the health and look of your hair.
Minoxidil
Minoxidil is a topical medication that is the gold standard of hair growth. It is the main ingredient in products like Rogaine and other over the counter hair growth formulas. It is the most effective treatment for alopecia and is often used off-label for other hair loss conditions.
Despite knowing that it works, the exact mechanism for how Minoxidil stimulates hair growth is actually unknown to experts. It is proven both safe and effective, with everyone from those diagnosed with alopecia to people who are struggling with other types of hair loss seeing remarkable results when using Minoxidil.
Melatonin
Many people know melatonin as a hormone produced by your body or a supplement that you take which helps you sleep. What you might not know is that topical melatonin is actually an affective off-label treatment for alopecia and other forms of hair loss in men and women.
There are many clinical studies which have shown significant reduction in hair thinning in both men and women using topical melatonin. The effective dosage appears to work when applied once daily for 3-6 months.
GHK-cu
GHK-Cu is a copper binding tri-peptide that occurs in human blood plasma. A powerful tool for cellular repair, the body releases GHK-Cu when we are injured. This peptide is found at high levels when we are young but can decline from 200 ng/ml at age 20 to 80 ng/ml by age 60.
GHK-Cu is scientifically proven to increase collagen and elastin, stimulate blood vessel and nerve growth, and has cell protective anti inflammatory actions. This ingredient is great for your skin and has many anti-aging benefits which also apply to your scalp.
Tretinoin
You may recognize the name tretinoin because of its increasing popularity as an anti-aging skin care ingredient. It should be no surprise then that researchers in one study found that 58% of patients saw hair regrowth using tretinoin alone, and 66% of patients saw an increase in hair growth when combined with Minoxidil.
The reason tretinoin can help you hair is because it increases cell turnover, which works as an anti-aging function as well as stimulates hair follicles. It also enhances the absorptive abilities of the skin, making other hair growth ingredients much more powerful.
Finally, it helps to reduce inflammation and increases blood flow to the scalp, both of which help to stimulate hair growth.
Caffeine
Caffeine is not just for your morning coffee or tea!
Caffeine is an ingredient that is often found in hair and skincare because of the benefits it provides including increasing circulation, delivering more oxygen and nutrients to your skin cells and hair follicles, and stimulating hair growth by activating the roots. In addition, caffeine can actually enlarge your hair follicles as well as lengthen the time of the growth phase.
Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is a hormone which is a byproduct of testosterone and it can damage hair follicles leading to hair loss. Caffeine actually functions to block the conversion of testosterone to DHT, thereby saving your follicles from potential damage.
How to Use It
Are you ready for thicker, fuller hair? This foam can be used once daily and should be applied to clean, dry hair with no other products on the scalp and not within 24 hours of chemical treatments including coloring, permanents, or chemical straightening.
With proper use you should see results within three to four months of consistent use. Stop use and consult your healthcare provider if you experience excessive irritation to the scalp or do not see results within four months of consistent use.
See how you can purchase it below:
What else you can do
In addition to our new hair foam, you can build healthy hair habits into your daily routine.
Focus on getting the right nutrients with a high protein diet full of nutrient dense foods like fruits and veggies and plenty of healthy fats like nuts and seeds, fish, and avocados. Try to control your stress by spending time decompressing and getting plenty of sleep.
Your hair health is very much influenced by the nutrients you are putting into your body and your hormones related to stress, so it is important that you are seeking balance in all aspects of your life instead of relying on medication alone. While products can help you treat your symptoms, you need to get to the root of the issue which usually starts within.
Other ways you can help your hair include gently brushing your scalp daily to stimulate the hair follicles and increase blood flow, handling it with care especially when it is wet, and reducing the amount of heat styling you do.
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