Alopecia – The Autoimmune Disorder

Alopecia – The Autoimmune Disorder

An autoimmune disorder occurs when your immune system becomes misguided and attacks healthy tissue. In the case of alopecia, the immune system attacks healthy hair follicles causing the hair to fall out leaving the scalp very smooth.

The three forms of alopecia include:
1) Alopecia Areata - patches of bald spots, usually on the scalp, but they also can be in the beard or other areas
2) Alopecia Totalis - complete loss of scalp hair and often eyebrows and eyelashes. This form is especially frustrating if you are a woman because you still have to shave your legs and underarms.
3) Alopecia Universalis - total loss of all body hair

My Story and How You can Prevent Hair Loss

I had alopecia totalis from 1984 – 1995. It started as alopecia areata (scattered bald spots) and developed into alopecia totalis where I lost all the hair on my head plus my eyebrows and eyelashes. This was a time before the internet and I felt like I was the only person in the world with this horrid condition. I felt helpless to prevent hair loss. I wore a wig for 11 years and it was very frustrating when I wanted to go swimming or when I needed to wear a helmet or drive in a convertible.

In 1995 I developed a formula for my daughter, Autumn. She had Epstein Barr and was very ill. Doctors said, “It is her immune system and the only thing you can do is make sure she gets enough rest.” Well I thought if she got any more rest, she would be in a coma. She could barely make it through the day and she was a senior in high school at the time. So I decided to take matters into my own hands and follow my instincts. Remembering what my grandmother and family friend, John Lonewolf had taught me about herbs. I concentrated on the safest herbs that balanced and strengthened the endocrine (immune) system such as, ginger, kelp, pau d’ arco and licorice. I made it in tincture form. As a matter of fact, I made a whole Mason jar full. Autumn recovered nicely in about 6 weeks and I still had quite a bit of tincture left.

Now, after having Alopecia Totalis for 11 years I gave up hope of having hair again. But I thought I would take the Endocrine Strengthener with the single hope of getting fewer colds. Within a month I noticed hair was growing back, AND it never fell out, and I have had hair ever since. If I go for two weeks without taking Endocrine Strengthener I sometimes started loosing eyelashes again. All I do is resume the tincture to prevent hair loss.

It’s important to keep in mind that although alopecia is not life threatening, it isn’t not uncommon for the immune system to attack other healthy parts of the body. In my case it was my thyroid gland.

Clearly I didn’t develop Endocrine Strengthener as a natural hair loss treatment albeit a very effective one; it doesn’t treat the symptoms, it corrects the cause. So to prevent hair loss due to alopecia, start taking Endocrine Strengthener at the first signs of any unusual hair loss or bald spots.

Endocrine Strengthener works for much more serious autoimmune disorders such as, Crohn’s Disease, Lupus and Epstein Barr. I never thought that I would have hair again but as it turned out there are safe and natural remedies to prevent hair loss due to alopecia. http://www.myhealingpath.com/page/479065589

Be sure to check with your doctor.

Please feel free to have a giggle at my expense and visit the page called, “A Decade of Bad Wigs” http://www.myhealingpath.com/page/478481581

Love and Light, Lori Jacobs