What Trichologists Wish You Knew About Hair Care

Debunking the four most common myths with Angela Downs and Kara Hanson.

At some point over the past year, my hair spontaneously decided to leap off my head. I like to believe the concept that the body knows best, but I was having a hard time understanding why my body was steering this 35 year old ship towards complete baldness without prior notice. The length, density, and overall quality of my hair vanished before my eyes. I started educating myself on wigs in preparation for the worst and, after not receiving much more than a shrugged shoulder from the medical system, decided to consult a trichologist.

Before this year, I had never heard the term trichology. For those of you who don’t know, a trichologist is a specialist who studies and treats the problems and diseases related to the hair and scalp. I never imagined myself sitting in an office with tears streaming down my face asking if one could help me, but earlier this year, that’s exactly what I did.