Kaneez N.: The teacher who feels confident in front of a crowd again.

It happened first during her daily FaceTime with her mother: Kaneez ran her fingers through her hair, a force of habit—but when she pulled away, she saw strands of hair in her hand. 

“It shocked me,” she says. “It was such an uncomfortable feeling; you feel like you’re losing pieces of yourself.” 

When perimenopause began, Kaneez noticed shedding. It was subtle at first, but as time went on she was seeing more and more hair in the shower and hairbrush. “It’s scary, honestly,” she says. “You feel like you’re out of control.”

When Kaneez showed her mom, she said it was just another part of getting older. But Kaneez refused to accept that as an answer. “That day made me realize that my body was changing—and I needed to do something about it.”

Kaneez brought up the shedding at her next doctor’s appointment. Her doctor explained that hormonal changes during perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause can impact hair growth. To address key root causes, like hormonal shifts, he told her to take an internal approach to hair health. Then, her doctor recommended Nutrafol Women’s Balance. 

Nutrafol Women’s Balance is a daily hair growth supplement physician-formulated for women 45+. It uses standardized vitamins, minerals, and natural ingredients to target key root causes of thinning such as hormonal shifts, natural aging, and metabolism changes—for visibly thicker, fuller, stronger hair.^1,2,3 

Kaneez’s doctor told her to give it a few months to see results. By the end of the third month, she noticed her hair was shedding less.³  She also saw her hair was thicker and fuller.^1,2,3  

“I just felt like myself again,” she says. 

Before Nutrafol, Kaneez said that as the years went by, she had started feeling pressure to wear her hair short—which she didn’t want to do. Now she feels like she can keep the longer hairstyle she’s always loved. “I realized I could have the hair length I want,” she says. “You can look the way you want to look. It’s not about your age.”

The transformation wasn’t just on the outside. 

Kaneez teaches and hosts workshops with middle and high school students in the Bronx. She spends her days in front of rooms full of people: presenting, facilitating, being looked at. Confidence, in her line of work, isn’t optional. “I credit Nutrafol with giving me my confidence back,” she says. “To be able to stand up in front of a group of people and feel proud of myself, to feel like I’m looking the best I can be at this moment—that’s so important to me.” Taking photos, hiking, biking, swimming—Kaneez isn’t self-conscious about her hair during her favorite activities anymore. 

Kaneez’s hair thinning had slowly taken up mental space. Now, she has that mental space back. “When you look good on the outside,” she says, “you feel good on the inside.”