Comment by Robin on December 20, 2015 at 12:32pm

Hi, I have also chosen a nutritional approach. The Paleo Autoimmune Approach as written about by Sarah Ballantyne is scientifically based and very logical to why the body is inflamed. This is different from the Vegan approach that I believe can still have offending foods and not enough nutrition without meat. I highly recommend you read her book and her web page is Paleo Mom. I feel great, the inflammation at my hair line is lessening and everyone says I look great (I believe I have lost a lot of inflammatory puffiness) . I have been doing this for 2 months and continue with a lot of confidence. (I have frontal fibrosing alopecia). Good luck.......

Comment by Val on December 20, 2015 at 12:38pm

Hi, I'm doing a little of the same and trying to đo IV vitamin therapy. It sobs like we have different types of A but no matter what changing your diet will help you feel better and cope better. I'm also seeing an integrative dr at Lifespan which I feel has been a good step to finding and eliminating root causes. It's a slow process. Please feel free to contact me and we can talk if you want.

Comment by Miller-mom on December 20, 2015 at 1:07pm

Vitamin d....

Comment by Barbara on December 20, 2015 at 1:15pm

I feel like it has helped me. I am constantly trying to balance what the medical doctors and research tell me with what the nutritionists and holistic doctors say. First, alopecia is an autoimmune disease and it has to go through the disease process, which means you would not see results for a long time. Keep it up. I have been following a diet that is gluten and dairy free, organic, mostly plant based with some wild caught fish, organic chicken  and grass fed beef and I take supplements such as a multi-vitamin, biotin, B-12, probiotic, etc.. After losing all hair, including eyebrows and eyelashes, I now have everything back. My eyebrows and eyelashes are dark and fine, and the hair on my head came back white but it is now starting to change back to brown. I know I am better because I have less inflammation and I feel great. Only time will tell, and it certainly doesn't work for everyone, but it did seem to help me. I am hoping to be wig free in the next 6 months and that would be a beautiful thing.

Comment by Dorothy on December 20, 2015 at 1:21pm

While I feel it is to late for me, I have read where some people have had good results from going gluten free.  If I was given this information 42 years ago, I would give it a try.  Seriously why not?  Eating a more healthy diet is good no matter if you get your hair back or not and if you get your hair back, bonus!

Comment by hoofpick on December 20, 2015 at 1:28pm

My journey with this pterese is a long one, so I apologize if its long.  I lost 85% of my hair on my head and my hair on my legs, underarms, arms was completely lost also.  This all started for me late in life, i was 56 when it happened. 2014 of Jan. by April of 2014 my hair on head was pretty much gone, except for long strands here and there.  Along with this came some severe food allergies.  I went to my Dermatologist first off, she did a biopsy that came back AA, Alopecia Areata. Then it was on to my conventional Dr., who did a battery of tests I can post if interested, but all came back normal.  Because we did not have health insurance they pretty much did not give me any health care, not that there is much for AA.  So I started reading and reading blogs a lot.  I indentified with the Celiac Disease symptoms, I read Jennifers Way by Jennifer Esposito, I also read Sarah Ballantyne, The Paleo Autoimmune Approach, that Robin above has.  I started going to a clinic for natural care, that they took the tests my conventional Dr. did and they did more, I can post those also.  But this time there was something there, they started me on a cleanse that should have only lasted a few weeks, mine lasted months, because my digestive system was so damaged.  They did a food allergy test, that came back so surprising, I was highly allergic to foods that are good for you, but I am gluten free, dairy free, soy free are the main ones, I stay away from pepper which is a given to set me off with a reaction.  Slowly, very slowly it started to work, I could work some chicken in ,a little beef back in diet.  I have learned to totally change my way of eating, believe me it is the hardest thing to do it takes alot of willpower (i had a lot of fear with the reactions I was getting also).  I am on supplements also.  I buy organic,this last summer I started buying from a CSA.   Eating out is a challenge but I know what to stay away from. It is true, with one autoimmune  disease there is another and quite possibly another.   I am reading a great book by Mee Tracy McCormick “My Kitchen Cure” (How I Cooked My Way Out Of Chronic Autoimmune Disease With Whole Foods and Healing Recipes)".  I am lucky she has a restaurant near me and she also teaches cooking classes.   I am excited to start as I just found her.  I continue to go to my natural dr. who has been a lifeline for helping me stay on track also has many solutions for natural healing.  I feel so much better!  Yes it takes the inflammation, soreness, pain too away and I haven’t had but one headache since I started this and there is a natural way for it also, before I got headaches daily, congestion also, always sore and achy.  But the best of all, April of 2015, slowly but slowly my hair started growing back, little white downy fuzz.  It took awhile to fill in, as it didn’t grow much til it filled in.  Natural hair color was brown, thick hair.  I was going gray, I thought, as I colored it to keep my color.  This hair was white, I had a grandmother who had soft wavy beautiful white hair, this was like hers.   It stayed white as it grew in.   This is Dec. 2015, it has grown and filled all in, the thick hair i remember, it is short but sweet.   I am coloring it again.   Had it cut quite a few times already, to style.  Do I know that the diet grew my hair back? NO, but I don’t ever think that it would have grown back with my digestive system the horrilbe mess it was.  Now that I look back, all the excuses I made for my digestive health, that was my body crying out for help.  I had many excuses for years.   I have started to get hair back on legs but only in a long oblong area in the front of my lower leg,same place on both legs, go figure.  But not on underarms.  But some has started to grow back on my arms.  So keep with the diet you are doing, it will help your body heal and you will feel great.   Maybe just maybe that will let your hair come back.   But you will FEEL amazing while you wait for it to grow.......If I can help or you have questions I am here.

Comment by Val on December 20, 2015 at 2:15pm

Great post!

Comment by StephaniePA-C on December 20, 2015 at 2:23pm

We went Gluten and dairy free with our little girl. She had about 40% scalp hair loss at that time. We started the diet in August 2013 and she confine to lose hair until mid December. She started to get re growth in March 2014. It was rapid and she has a full head of hair. We tried dairy this summer July 2015 and within two weeks she developed a new patch in her hairline. We removed dairy again and the patch grew back in pretty quickly. My aunt however, has been following the same strict diet. Her loss slowed for a while but then came back. All her patches filled with downy hair pretty quickly......much quicker than when she had her first hair loss several years ago. Good Luck!

Comment by Mayo on December 20, 2015 at 3:38pm

We have a similar story. We went Gaps/ paleo with our DD who had 60% of her hair missing and it took almost 2 months for her hair to start growing back however as soon as we did the diet change change her hair stopped falling out. This was two and a half yrs ago. All her hair grew back within 6-12 months. We reintroduced corn a few months ago and bam another patch came out!! Taken corn out again and I can see new hairs growing through (it's taken 3 months to get some regrowth this time. The process is slow but it shows you how inflamed you are. Don't give up hope. It may take 12 months or more to see an improvement but on the inside so much good is happening that you wouldn't even be aware of. Good luck.

Comment by Robin on December 20, 2015 at 4:01pm

Want to say I love reading all of these positive comments. Autoimmune issues did not start for me until I was 60! Yet, I have had inflammation for many years and in my 40's had so much pain, ibuprophen was a main part of my diet. Now I understand this all so much better. I am so encouraged that food sensitivities and a leaky gut interfere with our immune system. My new style of eating is delicious and it feels so right for my body. I know it will get tricky at times as we live in a culture that eats other ways......but now that I understand that I must do this for my health I can.......I am hopeful that my hair loss will stop and even though they say my hair loss is a forever type......who knows.....maybe I will get a regrowth........I am committed to the paleo autoimmune approach.......I believe it truly has a healing effect for me. I look forward to more positive and hopeful stories on this web site.......and good luck to all of you who choose to try this....it does take discipline and support from the people in your life.

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