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Is biotin really the answer for hair loss? Or are you wasting time and money?
In this episode of The Wild Wisdom Show, I break down what the research actually says about biotin and hair health—and why this supplement on its own only helps in very specific situations.
You’ll learn:
✔️ When biotin does help with hair loss
✔️ Who benefit from taking B-vitamin supplements
✔️ Symptoms of B-vitamin deficiencies
✔️ When to avoid biotin and maximum doses for safety
✔️ The deeper root-cause reasons behind hair thinning—especially for women
If you’ve been wondering whether you should take biotin, this episode will give you clarity and confidence based on real science.
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Biotin for hair loss is one of the most overhyped supplements. Did you know that there is something way better and more effective? Hi, I’m Dr. Patricia Mills, holistic medical doctor with a root cause approach to your health and hormones. And welcome to the Wild Wisdom Show. Today we’re going to be talking about biotin. Does it actually help with hair loss and what are some other options that actually might be more effective to restore your healthy hair? So, we’re going to be covering the pros and cons of biotin, signs of other B vitamin deficiencies, and maximum doses of supplements for safety. Now, the key thing to know is that not all hair loss is caused by a biotin deficiency. And yet many people when they start to research what to do about hair loss, they come across social media posts regarding biotin and they start taking pretty high dose biotin supplements and they may even experience some improvement in the short term, but they’re lacking the full improvement they could experience in the long term while while avoiding the side effects of highdose biotin. Now a biotin deficiency on its own is very rare. In other words, if you’re experiencing hair loss or hair thinning, it’s very unlikely that the only root cause is having not enough biotin. And taking highdose biotin can cause side effects to the point where it will even change your lab work. If you were to get blood work done with your doctor for other different reasons, maybe trying to explore what is the cause of your hair loss. Biotin could actually change those lab results and cloud the picture. So, let’s talk about what you could use instead. The truth is that if you’re low in one vitamin like biotin, you’re probably low in other vitamins as well. And so, let’s cover some common B vitamin deficiency signs because biotin is a type of B vitamin, but there’s many other B vitamins. And when you have a root cause for low biotin, that root cause, such as inflammation, can drain other vitamins as well. So, as I’m going through the signs of B vitamin deficiency, think to yourself, do I have any of these signs, and I’m going from most benign, least harmful signs to more serious ones. The more serious ones are less common. They happen if there’s a lot of issues like serious inflammation, serious stress response to that inflammation that can really drain a B vitamins or there’s some kind of serious nutritional deficiency. So, let’s go through them and you can see which ones you may be having issues with. Now biotin does result when in deficiency problems with brittle nails, dry skin and thinning hair. So let’s see what are some other deficiency you may be experiencing. So vitamin B or pantaththenic acid you can start to get acnes either as a young individual or as an adult. It could over time if serious progress to tingling sensations or pins and needle sensations in the hands or the feet. That’s a more rare consequence of B vitamin 5 deficiency. B2, also known as riboflavin, can cause cracks at the corner of the mouth. So, I see a lot of people with that issue. I myself have experienced that problem after some bouts of inflammation. I had knee surgery that caused serious inflammation. It really drained my B vitamins. And one of the many signs I saw was this cracks at the corners of the mouth. If it gets really bad in terms of a deficiency, one could go on to experience things like sore throat or a swollen tongue, skin irritation or rashes, you know, maybe aggravation of eczema, rosacea, dermatitis, and those sorts of issues. A B1 vitamin deficiency, also known as thamine, can show up as fatigue and irritability. Can start to affect your brain function with poor memory, your muscle function with muscle weakness. If it gets really bad, you can start to get numbness and what’s called neuropathy. So, nerve damage that causes that pins and needles and decrease or altered sensation in the hands and feet. People with a really severe deficiency that usually happens mostly in the case of alcoholism, so extreme alcohol intake, can even get issues with their heart health or develop a condition called berry berry. So, again, a very rare condition. B3 also known as niacin when it goes into deficiency can be experienced as weakness or problems with falling asleep. So insomnia can also get dermatitis. So that’s a specific kind of skin rash. It usually happens around the eyes or around the nose or around the mouth. So perocular perorbital dermatitis for example. If it gets really bad one can start to experience diarrhea and a severe deficiencies known as pelagra can show up as dementia. And again, most people tend to be on the mild deficiency spectrum when they’re experiencing these vitamin deficiencies. B6, also known as pyodoxine, is resulting in mouth sores. With deficiency, soores in and around the mouth. One can progress to have what’s called seereetic dermatitis. So, oily or flaky skin, usually around things like the hairline, around the nose, for example, and that can be really bothersome to people whenever skin rashes occur. If it gets worse, it can progress to anemia or a low red blood sound red blood cell count on your blood work. It can also result in mood changes and depression. And if it gets really severe, that’s when you start getting issues with confusion or seizures. Again, that’s very rare. B7 or biotin deficiency, which we’ve talked about, again, hair loss, brittle nails, but it can also cause skin rashes, and if really serious, it can result in neurological symptoms even in infants and children. if they’re running into issues with nutritional deficiencies. B9 is known as folate. This can also cause fatigue and mouse sores, a swollen tongue, poor growth or low appetite in kids. If there is an anemia, it’s called a megaloblastic anemia. Your doctor would comment on that on seeing your blood work. And if it happens in pregnancy, it can cause neural tube defects risk. So that’s the folate that people often want to supplement while pregnant. Bet known as cabalamin when low can result in fatigue, mood changes if it gets really bad deficiency, numbness and tingling in the hands or feet, problems with balance can affect memory and it can progress to nerve damage called neuropathy if it isn’t properly treated. Now, the good news is that when you take a B complex vitamin, you get all of these supplements in a small safe dose rather than taking one biotin supplement at a high dose. So, you’re getting everything you need at small doses. And these doses are small enough that even if you’re not deficient in one of the vitamins, it’s not harmful. But over time, the ones that you are deficient in will be topped up. And this can happen fairly quickly taking it consistently. Now the key is you never want to mega dose on any B vitamin. Higher doses does not mean better hair and it can mean some serious side effects. For example, if you take vitamin B at a dose of higher than 50 milligrams a day, it can actually cause nerve damage over time. So, when you purchase a B complex vitamin, you want to look at the bottle, scan down to the B6 vitamin and make sure that you’re not taking anything more than 50 milligrams. Maybe 60 milligrams is okay, but definitely not more than that a day. If the capsule or the tablet has a 50 milligram B6 in one of them, and the instructions on the bottle are to take two of the tablets or capsules a day, ignore the instructions. Don’t take more than one capsule or tablet a day. You do not want to take more than 50 to 60 milligrams of B6 a day. And that will ensure that you stay in the safe zone for supplementation. Now, I need to mention because it wouldn’t be a complete holistic story here if I didn’t that hair loss always signals a deeper issue in the body. Inflammation is the one I first think of. It disrupts growth cycle. It increases shedding and depletes B vitamins. So if you go through a phase of inflammation, stress, you experience rapid shedding, that’s the root cause. And B vitamins do get drained with inflammation. And so in addition to addressing the root cause of the inflammation, you want to supplement with some lowd dose B complex vitamins to ensure that you’re getting your nutritional needs, topping up the deficiencies, and hopefully preventing that hair loss. But if you’ve already lost the hair, then at least helping that hair loss recover very, very quickly. Stress, poor sleep, low iron, low vitamin D and thyroid issues are also related. So, it’s good to really tune in and go get that checkup with your doctor. Hopefully, get some blood tests to see if there’s any uh B vitamin deficiency signs, looking at your vitamin D levels, iron levels, checking out your thyroid health. Those are always very important. And healthy hair also reflects healthy hormones and a healthy body. So hormone health always has so much impact on our body, including our hair’s ability to grow and stay on our scalp. So not fall out. The bottom line here is that if you’re going to take a B vitamin, don’t take a highdose biotin. Take a lowd dose B complex. It’s going to give you enough biotin plus all of the other B vitamin deficiencies that usually occur when you have a biotin deficiency so that you’re not missing the boat on correcting some underlying deficiencies that could be contributing to some of your other health issues as well as your healthy hair. And remember, a root cause approach is always better than just supplements. You don’t want to just take supplements. You always want to consider the supplements, but really dive into the root causes so you can get at the reason why your hair fall out so it doesn’t happen again and it helps the recovery occur much faster. If you want more resources on this, check out my healthy hair playlist for more. Also, you can check out my inflammation playlist if you suspect you might have some inflammation contributing to your symptoms. It’s a very useful resource. 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