This isn’t regular hair loss. It’s thyroid telogen effluvium — and it’s why women are switching to HALO.
You have tried biotin. Collagen. A thickening shampoo. The supplement
everybody talks about. Maybe iron. And your hair is still going.
There is a good chance this is your thyroid. It has a name almost nobody gives you:
thyroid telogen effluvium.
A slow thyroid does two things at once. It pushes hair out of its growing phase too early,
so you shed. And it lets a hormone loose that shrinks the roots on top of your head, a
little more every cycle, so the parting widens.
That is why both happened to the same person — and why a vitamin was never going to
touch either of them.
Before you read on, check yourself against these. If two or more of them are you, this is thyroid telogen effluvium — and two is where it stops being a coincidence.
See the 4 signs
- Your parting keeps getting wider — and the back and the sides are exactly as thick as they always were. Only the top.
- There is a coarse dark hair on your chin. You deal with it. A fortnight later it is back, same place, just as thick.
- The outer third of your eyebrows, nearest your ears, has thinned or gone.
- You were told it is your age, or hormonal, or that some women just thin — and nobody ever said which hormone.
Two or more? Then read every word below. Thyroid telogen effluvium does not stand still. Every cycle you spend not knowing is a smaller root — and roots do not shrink forever.
A slow thyroid lets a hormone loose.
Every woman carries a little testosterone. Almost all of it is locked away by a protein your liver makes — and locked-away testosterone does nothing at all.
Your thyroid decides how much of that lock gets made. A slow one makes less, so more of it comes loose. Same testosterone. More of it free.
Your oestrogen helps make that lock too. While it was high, it covered for a thyroid that was already running low. When it started to drop in your forties, the cover came off — and what your thyroid had been doing all along finally showed.
So your age did not cause this. Your age revealed it.
It does not mean you are ill, either. A thyroid can sit at the bottom of normal for years and still do this — which is exactly why nobody ever mentioned it.
The back and the sides never respond to it. That is why it is only the top — and that is thyroid telogen effluvium.
Your chin proves it. Your bloods can’t.
Tested or never tested, it changes nothing here. A thyroid test only measures thyroid hormone. It cannot see how much testosterone came loose, or what that is doing to your roots. So the test can be right and your hair can still be going.
So check something it cannot see. That coarse dark hair on your chin grew overnight, and it will be back within a fortnight.
Same hormone, opposite jobs. Nothing has run out — it is being put in the wrong place.
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Biotin never stood a chance.
Biotin, collagen, keratin, iron. All of it is food, for a root that was never hungry — built for a deficiency you do not have.
Two plants go at DHT instead. Pumpkin seed oil slows testosterone turning into it. Saw palmetto reaches the root first, so what is made has nowhere to land.
And it has to be the oil. Powder is cheap, looks identical on a label, and is not the same thing. Ours is 1,000 mg, cold-pressed.
10,000 µg of biotin can bend your thyroid test.
Worth knowing even if you never buy anything from us.
Most hair supplements carry 10,000 µg of biotin. A day needs about fifty. That much gets into a blood test and changes the number that comes out — including a thyroid test.
Ours has 100 µg. And whatever you take, stop it three days before bloods.
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38,547 women got here before you.
Every one of them arrived the same way. Something was going, nobody had given it a name, and the tub they had been sold was food.
“Nobody had ever told me which hormone.”
Parting got wider in my early forties, bloods came back normal, and I was told some women just thin. Nobody ever said what was actually doing it. This is the first thing that explained it instead of selling me a vitamin.
“The eyebrow thing stopped me dead.”
Outer ends gone on both sides, and I’d blamed that on plucking them in the nineties for a decade. Nine years diagnosed and nobody had told me those were two separate things.
“I stopped my old tub 3 days before my bloods.”
Two years on 10,000 micrograms of biotin and my TSH had been sitting at the bottom of the range the whole time. Told the nurse. She said she’d heard of it but nobody flags it.
“The bobble went from four turns to three.”
They tell you upfront that nothing happens for five weeks, and it didn’t — so I didn’t bin it at week four like I have with every other thing I’ve bought.
“Mine was overactive, so I nearly scrolled past.”
Graves’, then they took it out, then levothyroxine ever since. It was the bit about the gap while they get your dose right that made me stop — that was eight months of my life.
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Two sisters. One parting.
Ellie went on HRT at forty-seven. Everything got better except her hair. She spent the next two years and £952 on biotin, collagen, iron and a shampoo that cost more than dinner — and kept every receipt.
Beth was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s at forty-six. Bloods in range, hair still going. She had spent eight years checking supplement labels for a living, so she read thirty of them and did the sums.
She is the reason there is a standardised extract in this bottle instead of a blend, and 100 µg of biotin instead of ten thousand.
Nobody had ever said the word DHT to either of them. That is the honest reason this exists.
Three bottles. Ninety days.
The length of one hair cycle, and the length of the guarantee.
Built for thyroid telogen effluvium — the half of it nobody treats.
Put your hair up tonight and count the turns of the tie. Count again at day ninety. Fewer turns means a thicker ponytail — and that number is yours, not ours.
The first five weeks are dead quiet. We would rather tell you now than lose you at week four. And if this page has made you want your thyroid checked, go and get it checked.
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