Follicle Chronicles; A deep dive into Alopecia with Jill Grunewald

Alopecia The human scalp contains approximately 100,000 to 150,000 hair follicles; its easy to take hair for granted until you start to lose it. Hair loss is a complex area of health care as there are many different types including Lymphocytic driven hair loss, Neutrophilic driven hair loss, mixed forms, non-scarring hair-loss, scarring hair loss, patterned hair loss, focal hair loss, and the most common diffuse hair loss. You can see this isn't so straightforward. According to our guest Jill Grunewald, the creator of The Reversing Alopecia Roadmap ; they all share similar underpinnings and imbalances . Jill believes in addressing the gut, immune system, and hormones to reverse alopecia and she shares some of these concepts with us in our discussions. She also shares some success stories that involved the immune system, her favorite hair loss supplement, and some comments on when to use some latest hair loss technologies like microderm rollers and red light therapy helmets. About Jill: Jill McLaughlin Grunewald is a holistic nutrition and hormone coach, Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, and founder of Healthful Elements LLC. She specializes in alopecia, Hashimoto’s, adrenal dysfunction, women’s health, and blood sugar imbalances and is the co-author of the #1 bestselling Essential Thyroid Cookbook: Over 100 Nourishing Recipes for Thriving with Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s. For nearly 17 years, Jill has successfully guided her clients and students to health and vitality—she has helped numerous with Hashimoto’s successfully manage their condition and has helped many with alopecia reverse their devastating hair loss with her first-of-its kind, signature program for the hair loss community called The Reversing Alopecia Roadmap. Jill’s own Hashimoto's has been successfully managed since late 2008 without the use of thyroid drugs. She had suffered from mild alopecia, off and on, starting at the age of 13 and then became devastatingly half bald with the alopecia ophiasis pattern in her early 40s. She refused to accept her fate and after digging into all the root causes of alopecia, grew all of her hair back. She’s suffered some relatively mild setbacks in the last two years, but all of those spots have filled in or are currently in a growth phase. Jill has written for various publications, blogs, and online magazines, including Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen, Dr. Frank Lipman’s BeWell blog, Dr. Susan Blum’s blog, and Experience Life magazine, has contributed to articles in Self and Shape magazines, and was quoted in Oprah’s O Magazine about thyroid nutrition. Social Media for Jill facebook.com/healthfulelements instagram.com/healthfulelements reversingalopecia.com