Acute stress can lead to immediate hair loss due to the release of messengers, hormones, and chemical mediators.

“that acute stress is seen right away and that's due to several different reasons and release of Messengers and and hormones and and chemical mediators that that do this”

“long-term stress is usually mitigated or caused by cortisol and everybody knows cortisol it's the you know fundamental stress hormone of our body it falls in the same family as drugs that we give like prednizone um falls in the same family of cholesterol testosterone and estrogen but cortisol does something very different it breaks things down to allow our body to utilize it in times of stress because unfortunately our body doesn't understand the difference between 21st century stress and old stress so us being chased by a lion to our to our B's messaging system is the same as meeting chronic deadlines at work and what happens is cortisol is responsible for the breakdown of things like collagen and elastin thinning of vessel walls which allow our skin to look Supple and healthy so as we have a lot of stress and a lot of cortisol release we see aging and there's accelerated aging”