Hair Shedding After Rapid Weight Loss: A Dermatologist Explains (with Dr Aamna Adel)

This Is My Journey | The GLP-1 Podcast · Oct 27, 2026 · 35m

Last October researchers presented one of the largest studies ever done on this. Nearly 548,000 matched pairs, comparing people on GLP-1 medication against people who were not. At twelve months, the GLP-1 group had 76 per cent higher odds of telogen effluvium, the shedding kind of hair loss, and 40 per cent higher odds of non-scarring hair loss overall. The telling detail is what happened at six months. The signal wasn’t there yet. It only appeared at twelve. Which is exactly what you would expect if the trigger is the speed of the weight loss rather than the medication itself. In this…