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hey guys it's shimi and welcome back to
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my
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channel so I'm really really excited to
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introduce the two dermatologist that I
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have on here on call with me the first
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is Dr candr Heath I am a Philadelphia
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based dermatologist who specializes in
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care for adults and pediatric patients
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and the second is another highly
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renowned black dermatologist Dr hope
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Mitchell I am a board certified
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dermatologist who practices medical
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aesthetic and surgical der ology in Ohio
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and today we'll be talking all about
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growing your edges back so I hope you
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have a pen and paper ready if you've
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been struggling with your edges been
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watching different videos AR to getting
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good answers and things that have
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actually helped you today is the day
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that you're going to get like real
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information from real people real
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dermatologist I'm really excited to get
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into this video the things I will talk
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about in this video will be about lost
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edges that resulted from things that you
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did from the outside so like tight
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hairstyles things like that and we're
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not really going to talk about if you
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have an internal problem and that's
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causing your hair loss because if that's
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the case you Pro you would need to go to
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a doctor like there's no way I can tell
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you what health condition that you're
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having there can be like actual serious
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health conditions that are causing you
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to lose your hair and then you can also
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just be deficient in certain things like
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zinc and vitamin D are really common
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deficiencies that can cause people to
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lose their hair so it's going to be like
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a guessing game trying to figure that
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out without just going to a doctor even
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though in this video we will talk about
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ways to grow back your edges they're
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only going to fall back out if you still
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have have that health condition that
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hasn't been checked out so make sure
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that you know that but if it's because
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of things that you did to your own hair
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because let's be honest most of the time
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we know that it was something that we
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did or that was done externally to our
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hair so that's what we're going to be
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talking about mostly today and how to
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actually grow your edges back so I hope
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you guys are ready when people are
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thinking about their edges really they
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can start today by the reversal of doing
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things that can be traumatic whether
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it's glued down hairstyles that when
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they're removed they're also removing um
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hair and they're also traumatizing the
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follicles limiting tight hair styles if
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it hurts it's too tight if your if you
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cannot move your eyebrows after it's in
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it is too tight and our body tells us
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you know pain throbbing little bumps
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around the areas where the hairs are
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being pulled it's not acceptable to say
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I'll just go home and take Tylenol and
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sleep it off that is a warning sign it's
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like alert hello this is not cool those
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hairs they come back finer and lighter
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and thinner they're not robust hairs
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that can really stand on their own they
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need time to mature and to grow and if
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you go back to those hair styling
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practices while we're trying to grow the
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hair you're just going to rip those new
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hairs out and I often let them know that
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some of these practices that have led
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them to this point really started in
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childhood often you know these things
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started well beyond we even knew about
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edges those things were being done to
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our hair and even as a black
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dermatologist who specializes in hair
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loss you know occasionally yes we can we
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get braids and things like that and even
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I would find myself saying um you know
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excuse me it's it's a little tight
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because we've been kind of conditioned
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to not express that but I want people to
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know that yes that is that's the first
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step instead of purchasing an oil or
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this or whatever you see really limiting
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the the tightness on the scalp people
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think okay I'm going to get a treatment
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and this is going to be fixed this is
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one of those conditions where you
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actually have to do both preventative
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and treatment to really save the
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follicles that you have okay so once
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they've done the preventative part what
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can they do as far as treating what
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they've already lost with traction
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alopecia I guess we should say the name
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right because that's what thinning edges
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is it's a medical condition called
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traction alopecia and this type of hair
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loss is very interesting in the
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beginning the damage that is done from
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tight hair styling Etc if those styles
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are loosened you can actually begin to
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regrow your hair the minute you see it
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and you stop pulling and brushing and
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and using those styles that are pulling
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on the edges absolutely and everyone's
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going to be different there are some
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people who naturally started out with
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finer hair to begin with you know they
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didn't have thick robust hair and so
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they may not be the ones that would be
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likely to stimulate hair and come back
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as quickly as maybe someone who
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genetically has more robust hair and one
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of the big takeaways from a study that's
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been done looking at people who had
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traction alopecia what they found was
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that on relaxed hair so if people get
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braids on top of relaxed hair they were
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at higher risk than if someone had
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natural hair and then got braids so
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that's also something that I have added
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on to on to my counseling that we know
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so definitely first thing is to loosen
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the hairstyles maybe change some some
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hair habits if the practices do continue
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then we see the other phase of the hair
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loss where we're seeing more scarring
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coming into play we know that just
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applying a specific oil is not it it is
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not going to just bring all of your hair
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back especially if the follicles are
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already scarred but with that said there
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have have been studies that show that
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there are some ingredients and and
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things and and oils that can help with
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hair growth one ingredient um the
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research has showed to be somewhat
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effective or not as effective as Medical
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Treatments would be that there is oil
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there is a study that shows there can be
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some efficacy maybe as close to as a 2%
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minoxidil um so I tend to recommend um
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you know that as an ingredient to look
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for in product because I get that
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question all the time you know what oil
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which oil and I think it's just a matter
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of you know using it being consistent
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massaging the scalp perhaps being able
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to bring that blood flow to the scalp I
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believe in massage I believe in
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stimulating the scalp um definitely to
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bring blood flow um to increase oxygen
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and nutrients to the follicle I think
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that it can be helpful and there are
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things that we can do from an internal
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standpoint to help promote you know hair
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growth as well if you go into the store
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there are lots of vitamins that say hair
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and nail vitamins and one of the things
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that they have in common is that they
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have lots of biotin in them there's
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really only one true hair loss condition
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that is diagnosed as a baby where you
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have actually problems processing Biotin
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and that is a very small percentage of
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the population it's actually very rare
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that actually needs to definitely
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supplement with biotin beyond what you
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would normally get in a in a healthy
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diet diet so all that to say when you
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are looking for something kind of a a
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supplement you do not need a supplement
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that has a million times more biotin
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than you than you really need not only
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does the science not support the use of
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Biotin for hair growth but also the
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vitamin industry is not regulated like
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drugs so it's unregulated but if we get
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down to the science of it by that's not
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it that's not it to bring those
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follicles back but Dr hope can tell you
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about some things you know for your diet
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and things like that that can help you
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know we do have some things that are
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great we have definitely found that Sal
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paletto we know that there's a hormone
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that it blocks you know from causing us
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to lose our our hair so we know that
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supplements that contain that can be
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beneficial I like to go the route of
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antioxidants really to decrease
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inflammation the more inflammation we
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have in our system the more likely we're
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to suffer with something be it hair loss
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be it arthritis Etc and inflammation in
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the bloodstream can be anything it could
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be our diet eating lots of processed
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food stress it could be just having a
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medical condition okay right like
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diabetes that's not controlled you know
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loss of a loved one emotional loss so
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there's a lot that we face on a
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day-to-day basis that can really make us
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more inflammatory and so really
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incorporating antioxidants fruits and
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vegetables
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um I like to recommend ingredients such
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as Macar root curcumin um ashwagandha I
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usually keep it pretty you know light
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with patients but I think addressing
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from an internal standpoint is always
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important when we want to really support
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the hair growth we can have more robust
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growth if internally we seem to be
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balanced as well so that's a part that
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we can add I definitely incorporate that
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into the consultation but with any
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treatment plan it's just always best to
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start with the board certified
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dermatologist instead of getting doing
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something that may only get you a low
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percentage of likelihood to regrow you
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know that's we're missing months and
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years if you come in as soon as possible
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we can also add some other Medical
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Treatments to that to try to enhance um
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enhance that process when we think about
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other things that we can do to treat um
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patients who have this we may start out
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by doing things that help to reduce
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inflammation
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around the around the hair follicles I
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don't know how detailed we want to get
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but sometimes that may include topical
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steroids it may include injecting
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steroids applying some hair growth
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stimulants like a topical minoxidil
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compounded with other things to actually
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help more hair to to come in so it
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really helps to get the guidance of a
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dermatologist a visit to the
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dermatologist for hair loss can be
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covered by many Insurance plant I know a
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lot of people don't know that but the
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longer you wait the more likely we are
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to see scarring and the less likely we
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are able to bring back the hair so if
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someone puts a hair styling they realize
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they have an issue you know they seek
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care they're really going to be in a way
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better position than waiting 10 years to
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come in their outcome is going to be
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better and proba and way faster than
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someone who has been doing it for 10
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years we mentioned um steroids where we
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could start topically or we can even
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inject them in my practice it can range
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any anywhere between1 to
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$150 per injection if you have insurance
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that can be covered out of pocket we do
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have a sliding scale as well and so that
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is to be able to help people who don't
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have insurance but it's not thousands of
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dollars okay yeah I thought I was you
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were going to say like a th 2,000 so yes
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that's reassuring so how long does it
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take for people to see results two to
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three injections to start to see results
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because of the hair growth cycle and how
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it works but I tend to see the best
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results between 3 and 6 months after we
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you know Implement a treatment plan I
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start out with steroids but if we don't
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see the benefit of that I do talk about
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a treatment called PRP that we draw your
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blood and we remove platelets that have
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growth factors Etc in them to help
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stimulate hair growth it can be an
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option depending upon how extensive The
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Edge loss is because once they scar we
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may have to move on to other options
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like considering um transplant it's
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really at the end of the road that
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person has done all multiple you know
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types of medical treatment maybe even
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other some other treatments that may not
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even be on the main path of treatment
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and they this is what they have these
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follicles have you know been treated
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with multiple things they're not coming
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back so once that patient is deemed
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stable yes a hair transplant is possible
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that is something that's cosmetic you
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know insurance insurance doesn't cover
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it but all hair transplant surgeons are
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not created equal so you actually would
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want to go to someone who is familiar
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with doing hair transplant on people of
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color because our our hair is different
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our follicle shape is different we
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always put in a plug whether you use
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this or not for black Derm directory.com
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it's a great resource to find
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dermatologists that are black that are
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familiar with our hair type and I think
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that that's the best way that you know
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you can start
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wow okay so I heard so many things that
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I have never heard of before at all that
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is really reassuring reassuring to know
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that we have options super super
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thankful to Dr kandra th and Dr hope
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Mitchell for agreeing to come on and
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share their expertise with me I'll link
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all of their information below they have
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active Instagram pages about their work
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in dermatology they are also working
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dermatologist so if you're in their area
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you can go visit them yourself I feel
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like this video will be really really
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powerful for a lot of people who didn't
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think that they had options but you do
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have options so if you know other people
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who are losing their edges definitely
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share this video with them I really hope
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that this video can help a lot of people
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that was the goal come back in like a
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few months let me know how it's working
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but yeah thank you guys so much for
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watching this video and I'll see you in
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the next one
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