Theresa from Alanya, Turkey, asked:
Hi Julie,
I have received a diagnosis of Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia (FFA).
I belong to a FB group of women who have this condition and there is little information available. My friends and I are struggling to find anything that can help us.
We’ve been told that FFA may be auto-immune linked but the triggers are not clear. In the meantime, we are losing hair and given no hope. It’s demoralizing, frightening, worrying, and embarrassing.
Can you please tell me if my hair can grow back? I would love to give the others hope as well.
I believe in energy and its power. Can you please help?
Thank you,
Theresa
Hi Theresa,
Thanks for your question. I believe it’s one that took a lot of courage to ask and that it’s more of an issue than most of us realize.
Before I connected to you, I first wanted to know more about your condition. Here’s what I learned …
Oxford University Hospitals says, “Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia (FFA) is a condition which causes hair loss, mainly over the hairline at the front of the head and seems to predominantly affect postmenopausal women.”
In a 2017 study done in Madrid, Spain, researchers concluded, “An earlier age of menopause may imply a higher risk of developing FFA, and the use of an IUD as a contraceptive may protect against the development of FFA.” In addition, the study said, “Intake of tamoxifen, with the induction of a low-estrogen environment around the hair follicle, may also trigger or maintain the pathogenic process of FFA. Most certainly, there is no single cause for FFA, and this entity results from the dynamic interaction of genetic, environmental, and hormonal factors.”
Global women’s health expert Christiane Northrup, MD says, “It’s mostly from insulin levels that are too high. In the face of cortisol and epinephrine, this creates excess androgens which land on the hair follicle receptors. When estrogen is low and testosterone is high, male pattern baldness occurs.”
Lastly, in a 2018 Dermatology Times article, Jerry Shapiro, MD, Director of Hair and Scalp Disorders at the New York University School of Medicine, stated, “The use of certain products with sunscreens has been associated with an increased likelihood of having frontal fibrosing alopecia.” Dr. Shapiro went on to say, “One study based on questionnaires about exposure to a wide range of lifestyle, social and medical factors found that twice as many women in the frontal fibrosing alopecia group had used a sunscreen compared with controls – a difference that was highly significant.”
In order to help you with your hair loss, I energetically connected to you in Turkey and “saw” (in my mind’s eye) what looked like a low level of estrogen. When a woman is low in estrogen, her energy field resembles a wilting plant in need of water. I applied energetic estrogen and you perked right up just like a dry plant after it had been watered.
Next, I applied stem cell energy to the area of your scalp in need of hair and “watched” (again in my mind’s eye) what looked like new follicles sprout hair in the needed areas.
Do I believe you can regrow hair? Absolutely!
Please consider looking into bioidentical hormones, getting your blood sugar and insulin levels down from following a low glycemic diet and improving your immune system through healing your gut microbiome. Here’s a link to a gut biome test that can help you figure out the best foods to use to heal your body.
And finally, a friend had great luck with hair regrowth by visiting Alan Baum, MD in Boca Raton, Florida here in the U.S. Perhaps you can learn some helpful information on Dr. Baum’s website.
Hope all this helps you and your friends experiencing FFA!