At Regain Functional Medicine + Aesthetics, we know the importance of your hair.
For years, you’ve updated your Pinterest board with “hair inspo” featuring new hair cuts and maybe even new colors. You’ve invested in the best shampoo for your hair type, with additional oils, sprays, and leave-in conditioners to keep it healthy. You do this because you love your hair.
Hair is a significant aspect of identity for both men and women, deeply connected to personal expression and self-esteem. So when you start losing hair, you feel like you’re losing a part of yourself.
We understand the importance of hair and the damaging psychological effects of hair loss, leading to feelings of isolation, shame, and anxiety. But hope is not lost, and at Regain, we offer a painless, noninvasive hair loss treatment in Leawood. Your hair loss is a symptom, not a mystery. Let’s discuss some of the reasons people notice excess hair loss or gradual hair thinning.
Causes of Hair Loss
Often, when people are trying to predict hair loss, they simply blame genetics, saying, “Look to your mother’s father.” While your genetics certainly influence hair loss, it’s much more complex. In fact, it’s an oversimplification to imply that one gene is responsible for hair loss. Hair loss is a polygenic trait, meaning that it’s inherited through 2 or more genes from either side of your family.
But we can’t blame it all on genetics. These factors also contribute to hair loss.
Hormones
Something we can’t emphasize enough is that men and women experience hair loss. Women often don’t notice thinning hair until menopause, which occurs between the ages of 45 and 55. Men notice it as early as their late teens or early 20s, which explains why we typically think of this as a gender-related issue.
Although not solely gender-based, hormonal differences explain why men’s hair loss often begins earlier. Men have higher levels of androgens, hormones like testosterone that trigger the development of male characteristics. One particular androgenic hormone, dihydrotestosterone (DHT), plays a major role in androgenic alopecia, which is just another name for male or female pattern baldness.
Men and women come to Regain for hair loss treatment in Leawood when DHT or testosterone levels are too high, causing hair follicles to gradually shrink. Women experience this later in life than men because, as they age, their estrogen levels decline, triggering an increase in androgens.
Men can experience hair loss at the crown or a receding hairline. Women notice thinning at the top of the head and a widening middle part.
Related Reading: Hormone Testing at Regain
If your hormones are to blame, we offer bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, which rebalances your hormones. This treatment pairs really well with our hair restoration options, like DHT blockers.
Autoimmune Disease
Alopecia areata refers to an autoimmune disease that causes hair to fall out in small, round patches. This happens when your immune system attacks your body, specifically your hair follicles, because it mistakes them for foreign invaders like bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi.
Stress or Nutritional Deficiencies
You typically lose 50 to 100 hairs a day, a natural part of the hair cycle that starts in the anagen (growth) stage, progresses towards the resting (catagen) stage, and ends in the shedding (telogen) stage. When you notice excessive hair loss, it can result from nutritional deficiencies, psychological stress, or infections.
This hair loss, known as telogen effluvium, prematurely forces hair from the anagen to the telogen stage, resulting in more hair found in your brush and shower drain or on your pillow. Instead of the normal amount of daily hairs shed, you may lose up to 300 strands per day.
Although this is typically a temporary form of hair loss that should only last 3 to 6 months, it can add to the stress you’re already experiencing. What’s worse, you may not even understand what triggered this rapid hair loss to begin with, making finding hair loss treatment in Leawood much more difficult. Our advice to you is to stop stressing and guessing. It’s easier to visit our office for a comprehensive and tailored hair restoration plan.
Regain Your Hair | The Process From Shedding to Growing
We offer free consultations to start your hair restoration process, and we recommend starting sooner rather than later. The sooner we can stop your hair follicles from shrinking, the quicker we can help you recover your full head of hair.
Determining the Cause
As an exclusive provider for GetHairMD in Kansas City, we offer a 3-pronged system that includes noninvasive therapies to promote hair growth. To customize your treatment, we start with a consultation where we examine your scalp to determine the health of your skin.
Next, we take initial photos using the HairMetrix camera, an AI-driven, noninvasive hair analysis tool that doesn’t require hair clippings (because we know how important the remaining hair on your head is). During the consultation, we gain insight into the best hair loss treatment in Leawood for you. Throughout your treatment, we will track your progress using this imaging technology.
We also discuss your family medical history and the hair products you are currently using. Next, a cheek swab for genomic testing allows us to formulate a hair growth serum and nutritional supplements that are based on your DNA to specifically customize your at-home care.
Begin the Process: In-Office Treatments
Something that surprises a lot of patients is that hair loss does not have to involve a surgical transplant. Instead, using our functional, holistic medicine, we target the source of your hair loss using noninvasive therapies. Next, we begin your in-office treatments, which may include red laser light and follicular infusion therapy.
Red laser light emits a 650 nm wavelength to stimulate hair follicles, boost blood flow, and prolong the anagen phase. This beam of light energizes the cell for better function as well as reducing the effects of DHT on the hair follicle which increases blood flow and decreases inflammation.”
Follicular Infusion Therapy involves driving a growth-activating serum deep into your hair follicles. A needle-free system uses mild electrical pulses to improve serum absorption into the deeper skin layers, delivering stem cells, growth factors, and anti-inflammatory effects to hair follicles.
Both therapies only take 20 minutes per session. Together, we can decide how many treatments you’ll need to see the most effective hair restoration.
Personalized Prescriptions and Products
Your hair loss treatment in Leawood doesn’t stop in our office.Using the results from your genomic testing, our compounding pharmacy will customize a prescription hair growth serum specifically for you. Usually, when someone experiences hair loss due to nutritional deficiencies, it’s because they’re lacking in at least one of the following vitamins and minerals:
- Biotin
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D
- Folic acid
- Ferritin
- Zinc
Our nutritional gummies will help you maintain your daily required intake of these nutrients. For additional support, we recommend checking out our IV therapy and vitamin injections.
At-Home Care
We will supply you with personalized hair-restoring shampoo, conditioner, and serums to help prevent further hair loss and encourage growth. In addition to your personalized product line, we also encourage you to try the GetHairMD Hair Laser Cap. This at-home LED light therapy only takes 10 minutes a day, 3 days a week, to safely and painlessly boost blood flow to the scalp, revitalizing dormant hair follicles and improving hair density. This portable, at-home cap is optional, but highly encouraged.
The Hair Restoration Stages
Results differ depending on the severity and reason for your hair loss, so we encourage you to be patient and not compare your hair growth progression with anyone else’s. You should expect to experience the following 3 stages when you come to Regain for hair loss treatment in Leawood.
- Stage 1: A decrease in hair loss. While every patient is different, we usually expect you to notice this around the 6- to 8-week mark.
- Stage 2: Improvements in hair density. This gradual progression of more hair can be noticed anywhere between 6 weeks and 5 months. In this stage, we highly encourage you to be patient and trust the process.
- Stage 3: Noticeably thicker hair as the miniaturized follicles expand back to their normal, thick, terminal hair. You can expect to enjoy these benefits starting after the 3 to 6-month mark.
As a reminder, hair restoration doesn’t follow the same progression for everyone. While we expect these results around the specified time frame, your individual may vary.
Financing at Regain
Lasers, custom shampoos, serums, and LED caps. What we see as hair restoration, you might see as accumulating expenses to restore your hair. Think about it, you’ve spent your whole life adding hair care products to your monthly budgets, so you’re no stranger to the cost of achieving and maintaining those beautiful locks. But we recognize that the price tags may deter you from reviving your roots.
We understand that these treatments are only as accessible as they are affordable. We strive to make our hair loss treatments as affordable as possible and also offer 2 methods of flexible financing. Restoring your hair with our monthly payments costs about as much as a night out. During your consultation, we review all of your options and discuss the best, most affordable plan for you.
Regain Your Confidence and ReGrow Your Hair
Hair restoration is more than a hair loss treatment in Leawood. The connection between hair and mental/physical health highlights hair care as a key element of functional wellness. By restoring your hair, we’re tackling nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, stress, and low self-esteem. To start your process to thicker, healthier hair, try our treatment planning tool.
Alternatively, you can start the process face-to-face in our office when you request an appointment.
