Susan Smith Facebook ad: “I was losing my hair and I don’t know why”

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I finally found out why my hair was thinning. I spent a year watching my part get wider and nobody could tell me why. Two doctors told me it was stress, my blood work came back normal, and my hair kept coming out anyway. And the person who finally told me what was actually happening wasn't even there to look at my hair. I'm Susan, I'm 44, and I always had thick hair, so thick it used to take me forever to dry. About a year ago I noticed my ponytail felt smaller in my hand, and when I stood under the bathroom light I could see my scalp through the top of my head. It wasn't coming out in big clumps, which is what confused me, my part just kept getting wider and my hair was tangling far more than it used to. So I started hiding it, I parted it on the other side, then I started dusting dry shampoo along the top so my scalp wouldn't show, and by spring I had stopped wearing it down at all. The hardest part wasn't even the hair, it was that I had no idea why it was happening. My doctor ran my blood work, it came back normal, and he told me it was probably stress. So I tried to relax more, I went to bed earlier and made time to unwind, and my part kept getting wider. I read everything I could find online, one page said stress, another said nutrition, another said hormones, and none of them could tell me which one I actually had. Then in June I ended up at a dermatologist for something that had nothing to do with my hair, a mole on my shoulder my husband had been nagging me about for months. She looked at it, told me it was nothing to worry about, and then she stopped, tilted the exam light toward the top of my head, and asked me how long my part had been getting wider. I cried in that chair, which I really did not expect, because it was the first time in a whole year that anybody had actually looked. Her name is Dr. Sullivan, and she told me that most of the women who end up in her chair have been treating the wrong kind of hair loss, because the fix is completely different depending on which kind you have, and then she walked me through all three. The first one is DHT hair loss, and she called it the sneaky one, because there are no big clumps in the shower. Instead your part gets wider, your ponytail shrinks, your hair starts tangling more than it used to, and you can stand in bright light and see through your hair. That was exactly what I'd been seeing in my bathroom mirror for a year. She explained that DHT doesn't shed your hair outright, it slowly shrinks your follicles until they can barely produce anything, and it can make your scalp oilier too, so if you've been blaming your shampoo, it might not be your shampoo. I had switched shampoos twice that year. The second one is stress, and she said that looks completely different, it's sudden heavy shedding all over your scalp, usually about three months after something stressful, and it often resolves on its own. The third one is nutrition, so if the shedding comes with fatigue, brittle nails and dry skin, it's likely a deficiency, and bloodwork will tell you. Then she asked me where mine was thinning, and when I told her it was on top, at my temples and at my crown, and that it was getting worse, she said that's DHT, and that one does not resolve on its own. It was the first time in a year that anyone had told me what was actually going on, and it finally made sense why trying to relax and eating right hadn't done anything. I asked her about minoxidil, because that was the next thing I was about to try, and she told me a lot of women try it, but it's just a vasodilator, it widens blood vessels and doesn't block DHT, so the DHT keeps attacking your follicles the whole time, and the second you stop, the hair falls right back out. She said what actually works is stopping DHT at the source and blocking the DHT that's already there, and then she told me the brand she recommends to her patients, which is Bloom & Bond. She was specific about the brand because she said quality really matters here. Most pumpkin seed oil on Amazon is heat processed, which destroys the compounds that actually block DHT, and Bloom & Bond is cold pressed. And most saw palmetto supplements use cheap berry powder that delivers almost none of the fatty acids from the clinical studies, while Bloom & Bond uses the extract that was actually tested, with both ingredients at the doses that matter. She explained that the pumpkin seed oil inhibits the enzyme that creates DHT in the first place, and the saw palmetto blocks whatever DHT is left from binding to your follicles, so it's two mechanisms in one formula. I ordered it in the parking lot before I even drove home. ✅ The first two weeks, I didn't notice much of anything, and I had already decided it was going to be one more bottle that did nothing for me ✅ Three weeks in, my shedding had slowed down, my brush wasn't full every morning and the drain stayed clear after a wash ✅ Around week six, I caught myself walking past the hallway mirror without checking my part, and that was the first day in a year my hair wasn't the first thing on my mind ✅ By month three, I had baby hairs all along my hairline, the short ones that stand straight up and refuse to lie down, and I showed Dr. Sullivan photos of them at my follow-up ✅ By month six, my part had filled in enough that I stopped hiding it, and I wore my hair down to my niece's wedding What I wish I'd known a year earlier is that it was never a stress problem or a nutrition problem, and I spent all that time treating the wrong one. So if you're losing your hair and you don't know why, look at where it's thinning. If your part is getting wider, your temples are thinning and it's getting worse over time, that's DHT, and it doesn't resolve on its own, so please don't wait like I did. I'll leave the link to Bloom & Bond below, and if this sounds like what's been happening to you, I really hope it saves you the year it took me to find out. 👉 https://thebloomandbond.com/products/new-pumpkin-seed-oil-softgels P.S. If yours came out suddenly, in handfuls all over, a few months after something stressful, that one usually does settle on its own. Mine never did, and now I know why.

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