Your Crown Looks Fuller
You can sit down anywhere, under any light, and feel good about it.
What You're Actually After.
Imagine Feeling Good
About Your Hair Again.
Passing a mirror and liking what you see. Letting the light hit your scalp with confidence. Choosing every hairstyle for how you want to look, because you can.
Just feeling good about your hair again.
That is the outcome we are working toward. Functional medicine helps us find the driver so we can change what you are seeing.
More Hair. More Coverage. More Confidence.
What If Your Next Hair Photo
Looked Better Than The Last One?
Hair restoration takes time. When the right follicles are still capable of responding, the difference can become visible.
Same angle. Same lighting. Honest timelines.
Shared with written consent. Results vary by individual.
In Your Words
How Hair Loss Connects
To The Body
“My hair started coming out in handfuls a few months after a hard season.”
Stress chemistry can push a large share of follicles into their resting phase at once. The shed shows up well after the event that triggered it. Functional medicine maps the timeline.
“My part keeps getting wider at the crown.”
A shift in androgen activity gradually shortens the growing phase at the crown and part line. Each cycle, hairs come back finer. Functional medicine identifies the hormonal driver.
“My postpartum shedding kept going.”
Postpartum shedding is expected. When it runs past the usual window, iron stores, thyroid function, and ongoing hormone shifts are the places to look. That is exactly what functional medicine is built for.
“I have taken every hair vitamin and nothing changed.”
Supplements only help when absorption and the underlying driver line up. If the driver is hormonal or inflammatory, a nutrient alone will miss it. Functional medicine finds what the supplements could not reach.
Come in with what you are noticing.
We will help you make sense of the rest.
Start With My $99 Hair & Body DiscoveryWhy functional medicine goes further than a standard dermatology visit.
Hair Loss Lives In The Body. The Scalp Is Where It Shows Up.
A dermatologist examines the skin on your scalp. A functional medicine approach goes deeper: the strand, the follicle, your hormones, your nutrition, your stress load, your full hair history. Dr. Nina's protocols check every layer that topical treatments alone cannot reach.
You were treating the right area. Functional medicine just reaches the deeper layers.
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Same Thinning. Six Different Drivers Our Functional Medicine Approach Identifies.
Nutritional Deficiency
Iron, ferritin, zinc, vitamin D, B12. "Normal range" on a lab report is often too broad for hair. Functional medicine reads the numbers that matter for regrowth.
Chronic Stress Response
Cortisol pushes follicles into early shedding and stalls regrowth for months. Functional medicine maps when the loss started against what your body was handling.
Daily Habits
Sleep, hydration, tension from styling, heat use. Small habits compound. Functional medicine connects the dots so your routine supports your regrowth.
Hormone imbalance
Thyroid, estrogen, androgens. When they shift, the crown and hairline show it first. Functional medicine identifies which hormones are driving the pattern.
Medication Side Effects
Some prescriptions can contribute to hair loss. Functional medicine reviews everything you are taking to find what may be a factor.
Autoimmune Activity
When your immune system targets your follicles, loss can come in patches or spread quickly. Functional medicine catches the pattern early and addresses the immune driver.
Before we treat, we find the trigger. And you see the evidence yourself at 200x.
What We Look At
The Internal Systems That Decide Whether Hair Grows
Each of these can hold growth back on its own. More often, two of them are working together. Functional medicine reads all of them.
What Most Pages Leave Out
When Two Different Causes Look The Same From Outside
A hormonally driven pattern and a nutrient-driven pattern can look identical in the mirror. Both give you more scalp at the part, more hair in the brush, and a thinner ponytail. From arm's length there is nothing to separate them. That is why so much time gets spent on the wrong plan.
Under 200x magnification, they separate. An androgen-driven pattern shows mixed shaft thickness in a small area, thick hairs beside noticeably finer ones, concentrated at the crown and part line. A nutrient or stress-driven shed shows hairs of even caliber thinning across the whole head, with more empty follicle openings, and it usually has a start date you can point to.
That distinction changes what is worth testing. Mixed-caliber at the crown sends us toward hormones and metabolism. Even, whole-head thinning sends us toward iron, thyroid, and what has been happening in the last three to six months. Inflammation visible around the openings changes the order entirely, because calming that comes before any growth work.
It also tells us what is honest. Where follicle openings are still intact, there is something to work with. Where the scalp shows smooth areas with no openings, that tissue has scarred and regrowth is off the table. We tell you that clearly so your time and resources go toward the areas that can respond.
Where This Leads
Conditions This Page Connects To
Treatment follows diagnosis. Once functional medicine identifies which system is driving the pattern, the right path is usually one of these.
Hormonal Hair Loss
Thinning that tracks with a hormone shift, at the part line and crown first.
PCOS Hair Loss
Scalp thinning paired with metabolic and androgen patterns.
Excess DHT
Follicle miniaturization driven by androgen sensitivity.
Telogen Effluvium
Diffuse shedding that follows illness, stress or a nutrient drop.
Postpartum Hair Loss
Shedding after birth, and what it means when it continues.
IV Nutrient Therapy
Delivering nutrients directly when absorption is part of the problem.
Restorative Therapy
Whole-body support for the systems that set the growth cycle.
This Is The Hair We Work With Every Day.
Your Hair Specialist Should Already Understand Black Hair.
If you have worn braids, relaxers, sew-ins, wigs, locs, heat styles, or protective styles for years, that history matters. If you have 4C hair, that matters. If your mother or your aunt dealt with thinning at the crown, that may matter too.
Your appointment time should go toward answers, and our functional medicine team already has the context.
We Are Well-Versed In Us.
The factors that shape Black hair across a lifetime. We ask about every one of them.
Relaxer HistoryWhat years of chemical processing may have done to your scalp and follicles.
Protective StylingHow tight, how often, and whether tension contributed to what you are seeing.
Hormonal ShiftsPostpartum, thyroid, perimenopause and PCOS patterns.
Nutrient StatusIron, vitamin D, and the markers that affect growth.
Men's Hair PatternsReceding hairlines, thinning crowns, and the genetic patterns behind them.
200x magnification.
See what is happening at the follicle level.
Your First Step.
Find Out Which System Is Driving Your Hair Loss.
If you have been Googling symptoms, switching products, and checking the same thinning spot every week, this is where real answers begin. One visit. Functional medicine meets trichology.
Everything You Get.
The $99 Hair & Body Discovery.
One visit. You see what is happening. Next day, it is in writing.
Your One-on-One Scalp Health Session
30 focused minutes with a certified trichologist.
The 200x Scalp Read
Your scalp, magnified live on screen. You see the follicle status yourself.
A Full-Body Biofeedback Scan
The Part You Have Been Missing
Your Hair & Body Discovery Report
What is driving your loss and what to do about it. In writing, in your inbox, next business day.
Come As You Are
One Visit
Same Week
All Are Welcome
Serving All of Metro Atlanta
Our Promise
You will leave seeing what is happening: your scalp at 200x, the systems behind it mapped through functional medicine, with your report the next day. If you do not, the $99 is on us.
Who Oversees The Care
Dr. Nina Ross, ND, Double Board Certified Trichologist
“Your hair changed for a reason. Functional medicine is how we find it.”
Dr. Nina Ross
Dr. Nina Ross is a naturopathic doctor with a PhD in Functional Medicine and double board certification in trichology. As Clinical Director, she sets and oversees every protocol this practice runs.
Certified trichologists perform the evaluations and treatments. Everything is handled in-house, from the first scalp read through the plan itself. One team, one location.
10 years of specialized care. 2,500+ clients seen.
- Double Board Certified TrichologistTextured hair is the focus of the practice.
- PhD In Functional MedicineHormones, nutrients, and inflammation read as part of the full picture.
- Naturopathic ApproachHer whole-person training shapes every protocol used by the team.
- 10 Years Of Specialized CareEvaluations performed by certified trichologists under clinical direction by Dr. Nina Ross, ND, PhD.
In Their Words
What Clients Say
“I had tried everything for years. Nothing worked. Within months at Nina Ross, I saw new baby hairs. At 40 weeks, I had the confidence I thought I lost forever.”
Coretta, Atlanta
“Doctors told me nothing could be done. Nina Ross slowed my CCCA and actually gave me new growth. I only wish I had started sooner.”
Tasha, Decatur
“I was skeptical after wasting money elsewhere. The scalp imaging alone told me more than two years of guessing.”
Danielle R., Sandy Springs
Reviews are shared with client permission.
Results not typical. Individual results will vary.
Areas We Serve.
Functional Medicine Hair Restoration For Black Folks Across Metro Atlanta.
Our office sits just off GA-400 in Sandy Springs, minutes from the Perimeter, with free parking at the building. Clients drive in from all over the metro because a trichologist who combines functional medicine with textured hair expertise is rare.
01Sandy SpringsOur home. Off GA-400 near the Perimeter.
02Atlanta20 to 30 minutes from Midtown and Buckhead.
03DunwoodyUnder 10 minutes.
04BrookhavenAbout 15 minutes.
05RoswellAbout 15 minutes via GA-400.
06MariettaAbout 25 minutes via I-285.
07DecaturAbout 30 minutes via I-285.
08AlpharettaAbout 20 minutes via GA-400.
Questions, Answered.
Questions About
Functional Medicine
If your question is here, call us. You will talk to a real person.
What is functional medicine for hair loss?
Functional medicine looks at the internal systems driving your hair loss: hormones, thyroid, nutrients, gut health, inflammation, and stress. Instead of treating the scalp alone, we identify the root cause and build a plan around it.
How is functional medicine different from dermatology for hair loss?
Dermatology focuses on the skin at the scalp. Functional medicine goes deeper: the hormonal, metabolic, nutritional, and immune factors that determine whether your follicles can grow. We do both in the same visit.
What systems does the functional medicine assessment look at?
Hormones, thyroid function, iron and ferritin, vitamin D, gut health, inflammation, metabolism, toxicity load, stress chemistry, and food reactivity. Each one can hold hair growth back on its own.
Will I need blood work?
Your Discovery report may recommend specific panels based on what your scalp read and history show. We tell you which labs to request from your doctor, or we can order them here.
How long until I see results from a functional medicine approach?
It varies. Some clients see changes within 8 to 12 weeks. Full results can take 6 to 12 months depending on the driver. We photograph from fixed positions every visit so progress is measured, documented, and real.
Can functional medicine help if I have already tried everything?
Often, yes. Products and supplements address the surface. Functional medicine reaches the hormonal, metabolic, and immune layers that products cannot touch. If the driver is deeper, that is where the answer is.
Do I need a referral?
Just an appointment. Most clients come in with a concern and a question. We identify the driver in the first visit.
Do you treat men?
Yes. Thinning crowns, receding hairlines, diffuse shedding. Same functional medicine assessment process.
Your First Step.
Start By Knowing Which System Is Driving It
One visit. You see your scalp at 200x, functional medicine identifies the internal driver, and you leave with it all in writing.
Start My $99 Hair & Body Discovery
Your first step is one visit where you finally understand what is driving your hair loss.
(678) 561-4522
8735 Dunwoody Place, Suite 290 · Sandy Springs, GA 30350