Did any one ever notice a change in their hair texture. I have been lc about 4 week and just around this week i notice a change in my hair texture. Do you think this could be coming from lc eating.. Not ready for a hair cut and It is not summer. Iam confused and if it is lc does any one know what i could do?

hi i'm a hairdresser, and i suggest nioxin products. since i started losing weight i have also been losing hair. this line is designed for thinning hair and i find that it works awesome!!
good luck

thank you, I will look for this line though my hair is not thinning it feels dry. Maybe it is thinning and feels dry?????????

Hairdresser here too!!! (love the nioxin also!!!!)
Actually your hair should be getting healthier and growing. Your hair will do awful things if your carbs are to low...Have you tried upping the carbs just a bit or have you tried suppliments??

Hey!
i've had hair loss for about a year and a half now--first due to dieting, then to anti-malaria medications, then to malnutrition (likely), and now to stress and dieting (again) yup, my hair has suffered--luckily it was crazy thick before all this happened. I've been using nioxin shampoo/conditioner, but would you 2 hair dressers have any other recommendations? I've seen some of their other products, but weren't sure if they worked or if i should try them! Any thoughts, much appreciated! =)

I have noticed that my hair is a lot drier. I have just changed conditioners to a good quality one for dry hair and that has helped. No problem with hair loss.

Just remember...what works for some...does not work for all!!!


I love the Cytonutrient Actives treatment!!! It is not cheap but I have seen it work.............


This is just my own opinion

hmm, thanks! I'm gonna see a dermatologist in a couple of weeks actually, so maybe i might get some help there too Didn't know a high protein, high fat diet (aka, atkins, some SB) can lead to hair loss???? I always thought that my former low-protein, vegetarian diet was an issue for hair, esp since its made of keratin, right?

Its actually just a sign that your carbs are too low for the way your own body is wired. (Just what I was taught..I don't know about anyone else) I always...always lose hair when I do induction (which I have done over and over and over Dang it anyways!)
But once I up my carbs a bit...it tends to stop. But yeah...If its that bad...I would certainly see a Doc!!! Cuz...I am not a Doc...I don't play one on T.V. nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night either!

haha, might be fun to be a doc on TV though.....lots of money, fame, hot co-stars.....

That's very interesting that an amount of carbs is needed for hair growth, but i guess that makes sense if the body stops hair growth when it feels threatened or facing "starvation"

Thanks so much again though!

WEIRD THING. I was just hinking yesterday that my hair was growing faster, maybee due to the extra fat?

my hair is as dry, brittle, thick, curly, nappy, stiff as usual.
otherwise, i do notice some loss of hair when i wash it,
THANK GOD!

I've used the Nioxin Scalp Therapy for the last few years (mostly for dandruff) - but I still have a large hairball in the tub everytime I shower. Maybe I'll try the shampoos also.

Personally, I think that a lot of hair loss during rapid weight loss (on a healthy LC diet) is hormonal rather than nutritional. Excess hormones are stored in fat, and released as that fat is burned. As was mentioned about the hormone replacement therapies, this probably qualifies. Fat and protein are great for hair! Hormones, not always. Raising carbs as bellybuton suggests will probably help not due to the carbs themselves, but due to the slow in weight loss, and thus fewer extra hormones in the system. Make sense to anyone else?

My guess is that Atkins, SB, et al. are off the hook and it's that flood of extra hormones causing a lot of the trouble.

JMO, of course. There may be other reasons that dieting causes hair loss, but I think this is a biggie.

Sounds good to me Alopex!!!! All that blah blah blah I wrote earlier is true...but it is also from way back in the 80's when I went to beauty school. ( I guess I just got a good memory) But you are right...Hormones play a big part in the whole hair thingy. ( I guess my memory is not good as I remembered!!!! )