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If you’re losing hair after pregnancy, it’s normal and reversible! Test your deficiencies to fix!
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Today we're going to discuss teligen affluvium. That's when women have had a baby and um and you know suddenly lose all their hair or lose a lot of their hair. Doctors call it teligen of flubium cuz they don't have a better name for it. I'm going to call it vitamin deficiencies. Perinatal vitamin
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deficiencies which is not uncommon. If you feel horrible, fatigued, exhausted, and you're losing your hair after you've had your baby, you're malnourished. probably didn't keep up with your vitamins appropriately. It happens almost impossible to do. It's uh easy to
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take care of. You're really curious about it. Uh really suffering from it. Get a CMA with the Redux panel. Get our vitamin panel and we'll figure it out. 98.5% of all women's hair loss is from vitamin deficiencies. And the others,
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they really don't know what the causes are, so they have crazy names for it. But um from what I can tell as a physician all these years, especially when I was in that plastic surgery group, I dealt with women's hair loss issues all the time. It's almost always from vitamin deficiencies. This is Dr.
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Dan Fer. Uh, thanks for watching.
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