Almost every woman in this situation gets the same advice.
Eat more protein. Hit your targets. Give it time.
"I hit 120 grams every day for four months. The drain looked exactly the same."
"Protein didn't change anything for me either. I genuinely didn't know what else to try."
Here's the part most women were never told.
Eating protein isn't the same as your hair follicle receiving it. There's a step in between. And that step needs specific B vitamins to run — vitamins that have to come from food every single day because the body can't store them.
When appetite suppression quietly reduces how much you're eating over months, those vitamins can drop without showing up on any standard blood test.
The protein was right. What was missing was the step that makes protein usable at the follicle level.
"That was the first explanation that actually fit what I was experiencing."
My hairdresser pointed out baby hairs around my hairline before I even noticed them.