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If hair thinning is caused by a crashed diet can the hair grow back once diet is returned to normal?

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Diet: Your hair may go back to "normal" but whether or not it does is second fiddle to going back to a normal diet.

Dr Munshower agreed

Answered 11/28/2014

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