In this week's episode, I speak with Mahryah Shain, CEO of More Hari Naturally. He shares about what can cause hair loss and why DHT plays an important role. Visit More Hair Naturally to learn more about Mahryah and the company. They also offer free hair loss consultations. Watch the interview on YouTube Automated transcript, please forgive errors. Cheryl McColgan (00:00.93)Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Heal and Nourish Grow podcast. I am the founder of Heal and Nourish Grow, Cheryl McColgan. And today I am joined by Mariah Shane, who, as you heard in his bio, is the CEO of a hair health company, but he has kind of made this his passion in life. And he's going to share with us today some insights and things that we can possibly do to help hopefully make our hair a little bit healthier going forward. So Mahryah Shain (00:09.265)who, as you heard in his bio, is the CEO of a hair health company, but he has kind of made this his passion in life, and he's going to share with us today some insights and things that we can possibly do to help hopefully make our hair a little bit healthier going forward. So, welcome, Ryan. Could you just share with everybody kind of your background a little bit and how you got into this field? Cheryl McColgan (00:25.438)Welcome, Raya. Could you just share with everybody kind of your background a little bit and how you got into this field around hair health? Mahryah Shain (00:32.581)Yeah, absolutely. Well, thank you so much for having me here today. I'm very happy to be here. So basically, here's how this, it happened organically, I should say. So just growing up, I'm from California, I'm still in California. And growing up in California, I've always been raised with the philosophy that everything our body needs to survive exists in nature. that we have survived millions of years of evolution synergistically evolving with nature as we go. So when our bodies and our bodies are designed to survive, we are designed to live and to thrive. So I've always had the approach that when something's non-optimum with my body, my goal is to make my body strong enough to handle that situation. you know, and that exists in nature. That's always where I go first, is that area. How can I strengthen that area of my body so my body can fix what's going on? Now, hair loss is in my family. Every man in my family is totally bald. I am thrilled to have what I have because I should be like cue ball bald today. So when my father started losing his hair, we were like, oh, he was like, I wanna fix this. What's happening? And so we started looking around for remedies. And this was probably the 90s, I'd say, mid 90s in there. So we started looking around for solutions and remedies. Cause we're like, okay, so he's losing his hair and he's trying to fix it. And like everyone else does, he was kind of panicking and stuff cause it's a big deal for people. And there was nothing there. There was nothing in the natural realm that really was game changing. Like there were… there were lots of stuff like rubbing onion on your head and you know little cures like that but nothing really substantial that was like this is going to change my hair this is going to help it so he went down the drug route the popular route the same drugs that were made in the 70s the same drugs everyone's using today he went down that route and he started getting sick he started like you know his body he started getting very tired he his immune system dropped he actually started developing breasts because it started altering his hormones Mahryah Shain (02:57.669)And so he was like, this is not cool. This is not, this isn't, this isn't what I want. And we were all the same, like, no, you gotta, you gotta stop this. And my mother's from Italy. And so we have cousins in the Lake Como region and she was just talking to them casually about, you know, life and catching up. And she mentioned what's going on with my father.