Hello and welcome. Today we explore Maria Yagoda’s fight to reclaim her hair—and her sense of self—after twelve rounds of chemotherapy for advanced Hodgkin lymphoma. She watched her wild, frizzy bob flutter to the floor, endured six-hour “cold cap” ice helmets, and finally buzzed what was left when clumps covered her pillow. As she puts it, losing her hair was upsetting, but the slower, patchy regrowth has been “more gutting” because she’s meant to be normal now.

Dr. Asmi Berry reminds us that “hair is deeply tied to our identity, confidence, and even how we just move through the world.” Yet despite a booming market of serums, shampoos, and supplements, few treatments deliver. The only FDA-approved option for women is minoxidil—Rogaine—and even that can take months to show results. Other remedies, from spironolactone to turmeric scalp elixirs, carry promise but sparse proof.

For Maria and millions of others, the search continues. Because sometimes, as she learned, it really isn’t “just hair.”
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