As the technician finished combing through my hair, magnifying my scalp with a microscopic camera, I anxiously waited for the results. It’d been months of hair falling out in dense clumps and circling the shower drain. What felt normal at first became quickly troubling—was I experiencing hair loss? All signs, including the yellow bar blinking on my chart, pointed to yes.

Just six months prior to my scheduled scalp analysis, I had been laid off, started planning a wedding (in Italy, no less), and packed up my life with my fiancé to move from New York to Austin for his new job. Stress was my middle name. Up until then, I had been in denial despite the all the hair in my brush. But the answer was plain as day, with science and technology to back it up. My first thought was pure panic about m

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