From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic.

You've probably seen "adrenal fatigue" all over wellness content — the idea that chronic stress exhausts your adrenal glands until they can no longer produce enough hormones, leaving you depleted, foggy, and losing hair. It has 16 million TikTok views and a thriving supplement industry built around it. It is also not a recognised medical diagnosis. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinolog...

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From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic.

If you've ever noticed more hair in the brush after starting or stopping the pill and wondered whether it was related, the answer is: possibly. And the reason you probably weren't told this when you were prescribed it is that the hair conversation rarely comes up in a contraception appointment — even though the American Hair Loss Association has had specific guidance on this for years, medically r...

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From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic.

If you search "diet for hair loss" you'll get the same list on every website: salmon, eggs, spinach, biotin, protein. All reasonable. None of it wrong. But none of it tells you what a careful review of the actual research found — including two food warnings that almost nobody includes. A peer-reviewed review published in PMC examined 24 articles covering 1,787 patients, specifically looking at the...

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From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic.

Yesterday's article was about alcohol — a relationship that's indirect, dose-dependent, and more nuanced than most coverage suggests. Smoking is a different story. Multiple peer-reviewed studies confirm smokers have significantly higher rates of androgenetic alopecia. A 2024 meta-analysis published in the *Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology* (Gupta et al.) was the first to formally quantify this rela...

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From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic.

If you've ever searched "does alcohol cause hair loss" after a run of late nights, you've probably gotten a confident yes from most articles and a vague maybe from a few. Neither is quite right. A 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis published in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism (Yang et al.) looked specifically at the relationship between alcohol consumption and androgenetic alopecia. The h...

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From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic.

You probably already have melatonin in your house. Most people do — it's the most popular sleep supplement in the US, sitting in a gummy or capsule form on a lot of nightstands. And if you've read anything about hair and circadian rhythms, you may have wondered whether taking more of it would help. The honest answer is: not in the way you're probably thinking. But there is a real melatonin-hair st...

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From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic.

Every summer the same fear resurfaces: the pool is ruining your hair. You can smell the chlorine on your pillow. Your hair feels like straw by August. Something is definitely happening. Here is what the research actually says. A study published in the Journal of Dermatology compared the hair of 67 professional swimmers — people in chlorinated pools for hours every day — to 54 people who spent litt...

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From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic.

Quick question: when did you last put sunscreen on your scalp? If the answer is "never" or "I genuinely can't remember," you're in the overwhelming majority. Most people think about sun protection for their face, their shoulders, the tops of their feet at the pool — and completely forget that the scalp is skin too, sitting at the part of the body most directly angled toward the sun all day. This m...

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From Root to Ritual by Laritelle Organic.

Most of us have wondered whether organic hair care is worth the switch, or if it is just a prettier label on the same old bottle. That worry is fair. You have probably stood in the shower asking why your scalp feels tight, your hair looks flat, and your favorite product smells faintly like a chemistry lab. The truth is that how you wash your hair, how you slow down while doing it, and how you smel...

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You have probably heard of minoxidil — the topical solution that's been the standard over-the-counter hair loss treatment for decades. What you may not know is that dermatologists have quietly been prescribing it as a once-daily pill for the past few years, at much lower doses than were ever used for its original purpose as a blood pressure medication, with results that are in many cases better to...

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