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Why Your Hair Is Thinning… And The #1 Derm-recommended Hair Formula To Fix It

Hair thinning in women gets blamed on age or “just hormones”... The real cause has a name, and a natural solution you can take with your breakfast.

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Dr. Patricia Sullivan

PhD Endocrinology · Lead Scientist at Bloom & Bond

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No one told you how much your hair would change later in life. The full shower drain, the thin ponytail, the deleted pictures…

No matter how many gummies, shampoos or brushes you try: the drain is still full of hair.

That's because hair thinning isn't actually a hair problem… But a hormone problem.

First: Which Stage Of Hair Thinning Are You In?

Stage 1

More hair in the brush and the drain. Your parting looks normal to everyone… except you.

Stage 2

Your ponytail is about half what it was. Scalp shows under bathroom lighting.

Stage 3

The thinning shows all over, and you've started styling around it every morning.

No matter the stage: the cause is the same.

The Real Cause Of Hair Loss In Women: A Hormone Called DHT

What most women don't know: we all have a small amount of testosterone in our bodies.

It won't make you look like a man, but you do need it for certain things like energy, mood stability, and all that.

But the same testosterone also creates a little “fluke hormone”: DHT.

Your body barely needs it, and you'd survive perfectly fine without it (almost like your appendix).

The one thing it does do?

It narrows your hair follicle.

That's where your hair strands grow from: and the thinner the follicle, the thinner the hair.

hormones shift

→ more DHT

→ DHT lands on the follicle

→ the follicle shrinks

→ every new hair grows back thinner

So if you have DHT in your body your entire life… Why do you still have a single hair on your head?

Because for most of your life, estrogen kept DHT in check. When estrogen drops (like during menopause), DHT finally has free rein to thin out all of your hair follicles.

That's why women can have a full head of hair their entire life…

Until the hormones change, their shower drain and brush fill up, and they have no idea why.

Why Nothing You Tried Has Stopped The Hair Loss

That's why women struggle with hair thinning for so long: most fixes try to target the hair itself… While the real fix is in the hormones.

Biotin.

Doesn't reach DHT.

Helps build hair material… But that doesn't change a thing as long as your hair follicle's still too thin.

Special Shampoos.

Doesn't reach DHT.

Sit on your hair for three minutes, then fall into the same drain. It can't reach under your scalp or block DHT.

Rosemary Oil.

Only where you apply it.

Targets DHT… But only where you apply it topically. Underneath, the DHT is still there.

Minoxidil.

Only while you use it.

Boosts blood flow and expands your hair follicles… For as long as you use it. But it doesn't hurt DHT, so when you stop, your follicles shrink down again.

So most things focus on your hair or your scalp… While everyone ignores the hormone causing the damage. Except for one natural solution.

The Seed Oil That Blocks DHT (And The Hair Growth Study Behind It)

In a 24-week placebo-controlled trial, 76 people took one natural oil every day… and grew 40% more hair.

It's called Pumpkin Seed Oil. Taken as a softgel so it actually reaches where DHT is made.

It works because it's packed with the exact plant compounds that stop testosterone from turning into DHT. Less DHT gets made… and your follicles finally recover.

The study

40% more hair in 24 weeks

Pumpkin seed oil

40%

Placebo

10%

76 people · placebo-controlled · peer-reviewed

So why isn't every woman with thinning hair taking it already?

Two reasons.

Reason One: Pumpkin Seed Oil Alone Only Does Half The Job

Pumpkin seed oil stops your body from making new DHT. But it doesn't do anything about the DHT that's already in your body… and that DHT is still thinning your hair every single day.

That's where saw palmetto comes in. It sits on the exact spot on the follicle where DHT normally lands, so the DHT that's still floating around has nowhere to go.

So pumpkin seed oil makes sure less DHT gets made, and saw palmetto makes sure the DHT that's left can't do anything.

A medical illustration of a hair follicle showing how DHT molecules bind to receptors in the skin.

That's also why so many women try a pumpkin seed oil capsule on its own, see almost nothing after a few months, and give up: they only ever fixed half of the problem.

Reason Two: Most Pumpkin Seed Oil Is Dead On Arrival

Those plant compounds that block DHT are pretty fragile. Heat destroys them.

And that's exactly the problem with most pumpkin seed oil capsules on Amazon: they're made with oil that's been heated and refined to make it cheaper.

So it still says “pumpkin seed oil” on the label, but almost none of the compounds that actually do the work are left in there. That's also how they get to $15 a bottle.

Cold-pressed oil is the kind you want, because that's the only way the compounds that block DHT stay in.

This Is Why Bloom & Bond Exists

Bloom & Bond puts both halves of the fix in one softgel:

Shuts down the DHT supply

2,000mg of cold-pressed pumpkin seed oil. That's the dose the research actually studied, not a tiny amount just so they can put it on the label.

Guards the follicle from DHT

Saw palmetto, so the DHT that's already in your body can't reach your follicles.

That's the whole formula. Two ingredients, no fillers, and every batch gets tested by an outside lab.

What To Expect: Your Hair Growth Timeline

The first two weeks you won't notice much, and that's normal. Your follicles have to recover first, and that happens under your scalp where you can't see it yet.

01

Weeks 2-4

The first thing most women notice is less hair in the drain and in the brush. 83% of customers report less hair shedding within 26 days.

02

Weeks 8-12

You'll start seeing baby hairs along your parting and at your temples, the short ones that stick straight up. That's new hair from follicles that finally got a break.

03

Weeks 12-16

Your parting starts looking narrower and your ponytail feels thicker again. And usually this is the point where other people notice.

A smiling, middle-aged woman with brown hair, wearing a white lab coat in an office setting.

PhD Endocrinology, Stanford

17 years clinical & formulation experience

Lead Scientist at Bloom & Bond

“Most women with thinning hair have spent years treating their scalp. The research points somewhere else: for most of them this starts with DHT… and you can't treat a hormone from the outside.”

Dr. Patricia Sullivan · PhD Endocrinology · Lead Scientist at Bloom & Bond

Less Hair Shedding, In Their Words

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Your follicles don't wait for you to decide.

Every growth cycle they go through with DHT still on them, the hair comes back a little thinner, and the longer that goes on, the longer it takes them to recover.

So the earlier you start, the faster it responds.

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Stop The Hair Thinning In 90 Days, Or You Don't Pay

Two softgels a day, for 90 days.

Most women see less shedding in 26 days.

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Ask Us Anything

Why is my hair thinning all of a sudden?

For most women it comes down to a hormone shift: perimenopause, menopause, postpartum, PCOS. Estrogen drops, DHT gets to your follicles, and they start shrinking… which is why it feels sudden even though it's been building for months.

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