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My Hair Was Thinning for Two Years Before I Learned What Was Actually Causing It — And Why It Happens to Most Women Over 35

By Sarah Mitchell · February 6, 2026 · 7 min read

"Why are you wearing a hat inside Mom?"

This was the first thing my daughter said on our recent facetime.

I laughed it off. Changed the subject. But I could feel her noticing.

And if she was noticing my thin hair, I could only imagine who else was.

When I hung up I went straight to the bathroom.

I held my phone camera above my head to take a picture. And that’s when it hit me.

I hardly recognized my own scalp.

But what scared me wasn't the hair loss. It was the quiet thought that followed…

Is this just my life now?

I'm 46. I had been quietly losing my hair for almost two years.

I didn’t admit it to anyone, including myself.

It wasn’t overly dramatic.

No clumps in the shower. No bald spots. Just a slow, creeping “change”. A part that got wider. A ponytail that got thinner.

The kind of change where you're not sure if it's real or not…

Until you hold up a photo from three years ago and the woman had different hair.

I stopped wearing my hair down. I angled it away on video calls. I owned four hats by April. (I'd never been a hat person).

Now it was the only thing I thought about.

I did what every woman does when this happens. I threw money at it.

Biotin capsules from Amazon. Two different brands, four months total. Nothing.

The most popular hair growth supplement on the market, the expensive one my friend swore by. Five months. Still shedding.

Rosemary oil from TikTok. An expensive salon shampoo my stylist pushed on me.

None of it worked.

I was starting to accept it.

“This is just what happens when you get older.”

That’s what I kept telling myself. Grieving something I didn’t feel allowed to grieve.

Then I learned something that made me furious —

It Was Never a Vitamin Problem

Every product I tried was designed to grow hair.

But my hair didn't have a growth problem. It had a hormone problem.

It wasn't failing to grow. It was being told to stop.

My OB-GYN was the one who finally connected the dots. Once she explained it, I couldn't believe no one had told me sooner.

Here's what's actually happening:

Your body has a built-in system for handling hormones.

It’s like a cleanup crew that runs 24/7. The crew breaks down excess estrogen and “clears it out” so everything stays in balance.

For decades, the cleanup crew did its job fine.

But then it starts to fall behind after 35.

Maybe it's perimenopause. Maybe it's pregnancy. Maybe it's years of stress your body never fully recovered from. But the result is the same:

Excess estrogen starts to build up.

And when that happens, it sends a signal directly to your hair follicles: stop growing. Start shedding.

And here's the part that made me angry:

The cleanup crew uses a specific nutrient to work. Folate.

Folate is what helps your body process and clear excess hormones.

It's the fuel for the entire cleanup crew.

And after 35, when that system is slowing down, most women aren't getting enough of it — not from food, and definitely not from their hair supplements.

Because almost every hair supplement skips folate entirely.

They load you up on biotin, which does feed hair growth…

But if your hormone cleanup crew is missing the folate it needs to function? Well then biotin can't do a thing.

As my OB-GYN put it:

And every month I stayed on the wrong solution, my follicles stayed asleep, aging quietly while I waited.

Two years. Hundreds of dollars. Every single product solving a problem I didn't have.

The real problem was never a vitamin deficiency. It was a folate deficiency.

And not one product I tried even contained it.

So I went looking for one that did.

The Ingredient Almost Every Hair Supplement Leaves Out

I spent the next two weeks reading every label I could find.

Biotin, biotin, biotin. Every single one. Gummies, capsules, powders. Different packaging, same formula.

Not one of them contained clinical-dose folate. Not one of them even mentioned hormonal hair loss.

I was starting to think it didn't exist.

Then I found Wonder Growth Gummies.

I almost scrolled past them. Another hair gummy. After two years, I'd earned my skepticism. But I clicked the label anyway.

And there it was. Right at the top of the formula.

Folate — 442mcg, clinical dose.

It was the centerpiece of something called the Wonder Growth Complex™ — a system designed for hormonal hair loss.

For the first time, I was looking at something that was actually built for what I was going through.

The folate is the reason I tried it.

Because after everything my OB-GYN explained, I knew folate was the one thing I’d been missing.

My 3 Month Journey with Wonder Growth Gummies

Even after everything I’d learned about hormonal hair loss and folate, I was braced for disappointment.

Two years of nothing working will do that to you.

But something about the science made sense this time. So I committed to 90 days.

Week 1

Around day 7, something small shifted.

Less hair in my brush than before. It wasn’t a transformation. Just... less.

Enough to make me keep going.

Week 4

By month 1 the shedding had slowed. And this time noticeably.

I could run my fingers through my hair without that knot in my stomach.

For the first time in two years, it felt like the free-fall had stopped.

Month 2

I saw them. Tiny baby hairs along my hairline and around my part.

I took a photo, zoomed in as far as my phone would go, texted it to my sister. Her response: "OMG are those new??"

I kept waiting for the shedding to come back. It didn't.

Month 3

My hairstylist stopped mid-blowout. Put down the brush. Looked at me in the mirror and said, "What are you doing differently? You have all this new growth."

I almost cried in the chair. But instead, I smiled. For the first time in years, I had proof that my body could still fight back.

My hair isn't what it was at 30. I'm not going to lie to you about that.

But it's growing again. It's thicker. I wore it down to dinner last weekend without thinking about it. I didn't angle away from anyone. I left the hat at home.

Hair grows in cycles. This didn't happen overnight. Anyone who promises you that is lying. But after two years of nothing working — something working is everything.

What’s Actually in the Formula

This is what I'd been missing for two years. A formula that actually addresses the hormonal piece of hair loss.

And here's what most people don't know: not all folate is the same.

Most supplements use folic acid — the cheap, synthetic version…

Most women can't turn folic acid into what their body actually needs. It just passes through.

But Wonder Growth Gummies use “methylfolate” — the active form your body actually recognizes. It gets to work right away.

That’s a big deal. Because if the folate in your supplement can’t be absorbed, your hormone cleanup crew can’t get the fuel they need.

But Noor didn’t stop with just premium folate…

They made the formula even stronger by pairing it with Active B12. This powerhouse ingredient works hand-in-hand with folate to support hormone cleanup and accelerate new growth.

Once those two compounds are doing their job, the 5,000 mcg of pure biotin in Wonder Growth Gummies can finally work. And it does what everyone thinks biotin does. Fuel hair growth. Thicker strands. Stronger follicles. Real, lasting regrowth.

Biotin was never useless. It was just useless alone (at least for hormonal hair loss).

That's the Wonder Growth Complex™. Folate to support the hormone cleanup. Active B12 to power it. Biotin to fuel the regrowth once the block is addressed.

But here’s the thing:

My transformation isn’t a fluke or a one-off.

I started telling friends about Wonder Growth Gummies. Carefully. The way you bring up anything related to aging and your body. And every single time, the response was the same. A pause. Then: "Wait — you too?"

Thousands of Women. The Same Story

Postmenopause — Diane, 56

Postpartum that never resolved — Priya, 39

Tried the "top-rated" supplement — Jess, 44

Why I Ordered 3 Bottles of Noor Wonder Growth Gummies

I ordered one bottle the first time.

By week three, the shedding had slowed. I could feel something actually working. And I panicked.

Eleven days of gummies left.

The thought of running out made my stomach drop. What if I broke the cycle?

I reordered that night. Three bottles.

Not because of the price — although the bundle does lock in a better rate per bottle…

Because after two years of nothing, I wasn't going to risk losing any momentum.

Interrupting a growth cycle halfway through can mean starting over. I wasn't doing that again.

One Last Thing

I know what you're thinking. Because I thought it too.

My hair loss is different. It's worse. It's been too long. I'm too old. What if this is just another thing that doesn't work?

I thought every one of those things. I was wrong.

If you're holding your phone above your head right now, staring at a photo that doesn't feel like you — I was there. Two years ago. Wondering if this was just my life now.

It wasn't.

The problem was never a vitamin deficiency. It was hormonal. And until I addressed that, nothing was going to work.

If this sounds like you, I just wanted you to know — it wasn't your fault. You weren't doing the wrong things. You just didn't have the right information.

Wonder Growth is the only solution I've found that fixes the hormonal piece first — and then fuels the regrowth.

Here's what I'd tell any friend in this position:

Give Wonder Growth Gummies a try today. If your shedding slows, if you see baby hairs, if your stylist notices before you say anything — you’ll only wish you’d tried them sooner.

And if they don’t work? You're covered. Wonder Growth Gummies come with a 180-day money-back guarantee. Six full months.

Every dollar back, no questions, no hassle. Less than 3% of women ever ask.

I spent two years on the wrong answer. Don't do what I did.

Start with the 3-bottle bundle. Give your hair the full 90 days. And see what happens —

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