by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jul 30, 2015 | Amino Acid Therapy, Managing Trichotillomania
5-HTP is often used and recommended by physicians and laypersons alike for the management of depressive symptoms. This is because 5-hydroxytrphtophan (5-HTP) is the immediate precursor of serotonin and freely crosses the blood-brain-barrier. It is freely...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jul 16, 2015 | Amino Acid Therapy, Managing Trichotillomania, Support for trichotillomania
Everyone with trichotillomania is looking for answers. There is so much information out there, but very little data or clinical experience to back that information up. This can make the search for answers to the question “Why can’t I stop pulling my hair out?” and...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jul 2, 2015 | Amino Acid Therapy, Managing Trichotillomania
It is not at all uncommon for a person to have multiple symptoms associated with neurotransmitter imbalance and not even know they are related. For instance, many people with trichotillomania also suffer from anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, migraines and/or sleep...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jun 19, 2015 | Trichotillomania causes
I was recently asked by a client if N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) can increase hair pulling in those with trichotillomania. Apparently, this woman had been doing some research on ways to help her daughter overcoming her hair pulling and found several mixed reports about the...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Jun 5, 2015 | How to stop hair pulling, People we helped stop pulling hair out, People with trichotillomania
I’ve been on a program with the NPHC for almost a year. After following Dr. Oler’s recommendations, I have almost no urges to pull and my hair has almost all grown back; the only urges I have are when stress gets really high, but I can deal with those. I was diagnosed...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | May 21, 2015 | People we helped stop pulling hair out
I’ve been on a program with the NPHC for almost a year. After following Dr. Oler’s recommendations, I have almost no urges to pull and my hair has almost all grown back; the only urges I have are when stress gets really high, but I can deal with those. I was diagnosed...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | May 7, 2015 | Support for trichotillomania, Trichotillomania causes
The extreme and often compulsive urges to pull that are associated with trichotillomania are often due to an underlying imbalance in brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. In regards to trichotillomania, the most important neurotransmitter imbalances seem to be...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Apr 23, 2015 | Amino Acid Therapy, Trichotillomania causes
The adrenal glands are your ‘fight-or-flight’ organ; basically, they help you respond to stress. However, long periods of excessive stress can diminish the adrenals ability to adapt, which means you won’t cope with stress as well. It can also lead to a whole host of...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Apr 9, 2015 | Managing Trichotillomania, Trichotillomania causes
The underlying cause for the urge to pull in many people diagnosed with trichotillomania is neurotransmitter imbalance. There are many possible causes for this underlying imbalance, but stress of some sort often initiates the process and will cause an increase in the...
by Stop Pulling Hair Out | Mar 26, 2015 | Amino Acid Therapy, People we helped stop pulling hair out, Support for trichotillomania
Here is another case study showing how quickly amino acid therapy can help eliminate the urges to pull. Amy’s parents came to us in December 2014. Amy was an 11 year old girl that started having intense urges to pull in May 2014 that lessened over the summer, but came...
