Dr. Samantha Ellis

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934 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Apr

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The Liz Moody Podcast · The Root Causes Of Hair Loss, Acne & Aging—What's Actually Worth Your Money + What's Total BS · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

Are you not getting enough through your diet?

Are you malabsorbing?

Are you bleeding somewhere that we don't know about?

Or do you just get heavy periods?

So it's really important to understand why the iron deficiency happened and not just blanket treat it with a supplement.

When people have had an acute infection, they can often get hair loss months later.

And I think we will need more time to understand if there's like a long COVID aspect to this hair loss because there's been some immune dysregulation that's happened because of it.

Typically, it's just supportive.

So helping them understand that this is a brief loss in hair due to an intense trauma to the body, the same way women after childbirth will shed a lot of hair.

Wait, is that why?

Yeah.

It's because you've had sort of like a trauma to your body.

Yeah, it's like a big shock to the body.

After people run marathons, if you've had a high fever, if you've had surgery, like even after like I've had a patient recently who had her breast implants removed and then is shedding a ton of hair, we're four months out.

So any type of big hit to the body can cause some pretty intense hair loss and it can be shocking for people and it can last many, many months.

You can do things, but I usually say, hey, like you just have to know that this is not a forever thing.

Things you can do are like topical minoxidil or Rogaine, which we use long-term in people who have female and male pattern hair loss.

It can be used short-term when people have this stress-induced hair loss, which we call telogen effluvium.

But I really just try to encourage people that this is a temporary thing.

You want to make sure that you're

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