I created Winning Alopecia in 2017 as a resource to document what I’ve learned through healing my daughter’s autoimmune Alopecia Areata. Because conventional medicine offered zero answer and no real solution, the approach I share here leans more toward taking charge of the healing process and doing the lion’s share of the work myself instead of handing over all my hopes at the doctor’s office.

For 7 years since my daughter’s Alopecia diagnosis, I continue to invest in my own education and painstaking, expensive hands-on experience, trying one modality after another in order to resolve my daughter’s difficult, persistent Alopecia that was NOT triggered by stress, poor diet OR unhealthy lifestyle habits (or anything ‘obvious’ like that).

We’ve done various modalities in the realm of ‘holistic healing’ – measures concerning diet, lifestyle, environment, and natural topical treatment. I’ve learned enough of what ‘renowned experts’ and plant-based physicians have to offer, with a plant-based nutrition certification under my belt, not to mention countless books and lecture hours.

I’ve also seen what Alopecia healing courses and programs have to offer, and despite the seemingly glowing testimonials or ‘success’ stories, I’ve identified that virtually all of them are simply some sort of AIP-inspired diet plus common-sense lifestyle measures.

Although some diet protocols have their own merit, they are never the whole picture and there is always something missing.

My daughter has never been on junk or processed foods, or what many call the standard western diet. Her diet has always consisted of wholesome, real foods ever since she started eating solid foods.

We’ve mindfully created an environment to optimise her health:. lifestyle habits, sleep, exercise, stress levels, the use of chemicals, mold exposure… we’ve checked all those off.

We’ve gone through conventional doctors and specialists as well as the alternative medicine route. We’ve done various tests, both mainstream and otherwise.

No one has hit the ROOT cause. Diet and lifestyle for most people are the culprit, but it is not the case for my daughter, whose diet and lifestyle are already so remotely different from those of her peers and most of the population.

For many people, simply cleaning up their diet, stress levels, or correcting some basic nutrient deficiencies are enough to address the issue. For many, using a specific diet modality or addressing the mold exposure is enough to get them full hair regrowth. However, if certain otherwise-healthy foods are unhealthy and cause issues, then one is not truly healed. If you react to or are sensitive to certain foods, your issues are not fully resolved.

If you have been abusing your system with poor diet and lifestyle habits, cleaning up those should expectedly get you massive effects. You may get hair regrowth and you may even get relief in other symptoms as well. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have achieved full health in its most optimal potential. There is more. For some people (like my daughter), the issue extends way beyond “diet and lifestyle”.

We are all at different points in this journey. We are all born with different body ‘constitution’. We have all led different lifestyles up to this point, and we have tried different modalities. Wherever you are in this journey, know that there is a way out, but you have to look way beyond diet and lifestyle measures.

Alopecia has been the most humbling journey our family has been on. And more than 7 years in, I still continue to learn and peel back the layers of what constitutes health and healing in their truest sense. It’s certainly much more than a diet and lifestyle approach.

Diet and lifestyle measures are a must, for sure. They are a starting point, the foundational piece. If your diet and lifestyle measures are not yet optimised, certainly start there. But once you got those nailed, there is more you can do to optimise your health, not only to resolve Alopecia, but to prevent issues that have not yet got to the point of symptoms and diagnosable diseases.

If you have tried “everything”, I get you. It’s hard. But there is a way out. I will continue to share more as I learn. Thank you for being here. 🙂

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or a healthcare professional (I wouldn’t be doing this if they could help). I am self-taught with a mama bear attitude that won’t quit! 😉