Question: Hi! I experience really bad seasonal hair loss every year from late july through the end of October. This has happened to me every year for 17 years. I am 41. This year I started two months early and the hair loss is just increasing now. Would you suggest taking taurine and cysteine? If yes, how much? I have had my thyroid checked quite a few times....I have normal levels. This is just scary to me...because starting early has already thinned my hair. It does not come out in clumps but all over. I shed bad every year and the only information that a dermatologist has given me is that my hair follicles are probably all on the same life span schedule. I am a teacher so my stress levels change a lot when I am done with school....but I am about to go back. This has happened as long as I have been a teacher!!!

Is there anything else you would recommend doing during this period every year???

Right now I am a really healthy person. I am on no medications except for 5mgs of Abilify and that does not seem to effect this pattern....It just continues.