Mary Claire Haver

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Menopause Masterclass: Why Your Hair Is Thinning and What Works · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

And we're going to get to that.

Why does medicine dismiss women's hair loss?

I have to be honest with you.

In my training, I wasn't really taught much about hair loss at all, though this is something that is quite common in female patients.

I was taught that if it's severe, we may want to look for some nutrition deficiencies or possible levels of high testosterone, high androgens.

But this was severe hair loss, like baldness, basically.

Not when a woman came to you and in your eyes it looked like normal hair.

You were just taught to reassure her and that things would probably get better over time.

So hair loss, turns out, is the perfect example of a symptom that sits at the intersection of three medical biases at once.

One, it affects women, so it gets undertreated.

Studies show that women's pain and physical symptoms are routinely attributed to psychological causes like stress more than men's, even when the symptoms are identical.

Number two, it looks cosmetic, so the medical system treats it as optional.

And number three, the standard workup is actually poorly defined, so most clinicians don't even know where to start or what to order.

Iron deficiency is the cause that we miss the most.

In one study of women with hair loss or alopecia, the medical diagnosis alopecia, nutrient deficiency was the top cause of female alopecia and iron deficiency was found in roughly 70% of the women.

And most of them had a CBC or hemoglobin from the CBC that was actually in the normal range.

A normal CBC, a normal blood count does not rule out iron deficiency hair loss.

And we'll dig into those labs a little bit more to help you understand.

So hair loss in women over 40 is almost always more than one thing happening at the same time.

So I'm not going to tell you there's one single cause.

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