PCOD has a destabilising effect on hormones, causing the overproduction of androgen. Androgens reduce the size of hair follicles, make them thin, and force hair into a shorter hair growth cycle.

Hairloss is one of the most common symptoms that PCOD women have to face on day to day basis. It is a hormonal condition that affects a lot of women and comes with one of its most visible symptoms, ...

Up to 70% of women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) have hirsutism—a condition of unwanted male-pattern hair growth in women on their face and chin—and I am one of them. About 10 years ago, I ...

“I didn’t understand why my version of puberty felt so different from everyone else’s,” says Umber by J. Lenay founder Jasmine Nelson, who recounts these feelings as the first sign of hormonal ...