Why is my Hair Thinning Out?

Ellis Dean discusses hair loss and some of its causes and possible remedies with Dr. Brooke. BDO Ellis Dean: Good evening, good evening. And welcome to operation life back to the basics. Some something that really impacts black people, but not too much to the point of death, but something that is very, very important to us is our skin and our hair.  Is hair loss just hereditary? Is it stress? What causes this, because I saw this statistic that said up to a third or a half of black women suffer some amount of hair loss in their lifetime. That’s a lot. So what is the reasoning? What’s going on and why is all that happening? Dr. Brooke Jackson: Hair loss means alopecia, but there are many different types of alopecia. And so generally we divide alopecia into two broad categories, scarring and non scarring, and there are lots of reasons for both. And so we’ll talk a little bit about non scarring alopecia. Those are the types that is the type of hair loss. What typically what people will experience some shedding. Um, you can have them as related to medication. A lot of blood pressure medications will...