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Can low dose birth control help hair loss?
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Perhaps: If the hair loss is due to excess testosterone, then birth control can raise a protein called sex hormone binding globulin and bind free testosterone, making it inactive. It is the same mechanism of action used to treat acne.
Answered 3/4/2013
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