74 - Postpartum hairloss and how we can make it stop! With registered dietician and postpartum expert Lily Nichols

Why is it, that the one time you would really appreciate luscious, thick hair - when you're feeling sleep deprived, covered in milk and baby spit up, and likely haven't showered for a few days - your hair starts falling out! And more importantly, is there anything that can be done? We let today's expert fill us in.

Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based nutrition. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and sensible. She is the founder of the Institute for Prenatal Nutrition®, co-founder of the Women’s Health Nutrition Academy, and the author of three books: Real Food for Fertility (co-authored with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack), Real Food for Pregnancy, and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes. Lily’s bestselling books have helped tens of thousands of mamas (and babies!) and we are so lucky to pick her incredibly clever brain on all things postpartum hairloss.

In this podcast we discuss

why some postpartum women lose their hair, when it starts and more importantly when it should stop!whether there is anything we can do to prevent postpartum hair lossfoods or supplements that can help lessen hair loss or help it grow backwhether breastfeeding makes hair loss worsesigns that the amount of hair loss is outside of normalwhether it is important to get blood tests postpartum and what is recommended... and so much more!

You can connect with Lily and on instagram as well as her website.

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