When you think about making your body healthier, you don’t necessarily think that it’s going to do anything ‘strange’ along the way. However, gastric bypass hair loss is a possible after effect on your road to health.

Most female patients report that following their gastric bypass operation (about the fourth or fifth month after) they start to see more hairs on their brush and in the sink. Since the body normally sheds about ten percent of its follicles at a time, the increase to thirty or forty percent can seem astonishing.

Your body is going into starvation mode in these early months of rapid weight loss. In order to conserve energy to live, you body resorts to shutting down some of the ‘less important’ functions and processes that occur. Your hair is the usual victim of the body’s attempt to keep alive.

You may want to talk with your doctor about adding a regimen of vitamin supplements prior to your surgery in order to keep your hair loss to a minimum. In time, your body will stabilize and your hair will grow back. Actually, it usually grows back stronger and healthier.

So that’s good news for you and your hair.