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On September 17, 2026, Dr. Lee Moon-won's first column, "Hair loss focus turns to prevention," was published on the opinion page of The Korea Herald, a leading English-language daily newspaper.

The column looks at how the focus of hair-loss care is shifting from treatment to prevention, why female hair loss so often has more than one cause, and what Korean medicine and beauty wellness can offer in response.

📰 Column Highlights

1. A Patient Who Came Before Hair Loss Began

• Of two women in the waiting room, it was the one who still had a full head of hair that Dr. Lee ended up talking with longest. "I watched it happen to my mother. I want to stop it before it starts, or before it gets worse."
• After 21 years of treating nothing but hair loss, Dr. Lee saw this as one of the most rational choices a patient can make.

2. Female Hair Loss Rarely Has a Single Cause

• Stress, lack of sleep, nutritional imbalance, dieting, and life stages such as menstruation, childbirth and menopause can act together or build up over time and show up as hair loss.
• Leading hair-loss drugs were developed for male pattern baldness and its one main cause, DHT. When water is leaking from several places at once, sealing just one leak won't stop the flooding.

3. Korean Medicine Addresses Several Causes at Once

• A single prescription can be designed to ease tension and improve sleep, support blood production and circulation, aid metabolic function, and help restore hormonal balance. That range is the edge Korean Phytomedicine brings to female hair loss.
• It cannot cure every case, which is exactly why early intervention and prevention matter so much.

4. Beauty Wellness: Where Treatment, Prevention and Style Meet

• Beauty wellness is where medicine's precision, beauty's everydayness and wellness's preventive philosophy converge, and hair care is where they meet most clearly.
• About 80% of patients at Lee Moon Won Korean Medicine Clinic are women, a ratio that holds across Korea, Japan, Russia, the United States and the Middle East. Sixty percent are in their 20s and 30s, seeking to protect the hair they have before a problem becomes visible.

"For centuries, Korean medicine has approached the body as one complex system, using natural ingredients to address multiple causes at once. Korean Phytomedicine was standing at the crossroads of beauty wellness long before that demand existed." — Dr. Lee Moon-won, Chief Doctor

🔗 Read the Full Column in The Korea Herald

• Column title: [Lee Moon-won] Hair loss focus turns to prevention (Sept. 17, 2026)
• Column link: https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10875964

📚 Dr. Lee Moon-won's Column Series in The Korea Herald

1. Hair loss focus turns to prevention (Sept. 17, 2026) — this post · Original
2. Wellness is a relationship (Oct. 1, 2026) · Original
3. Prevention needs reliable records (Nov. 3, 2026) · Original
4. Wellness is a system; it needs maintaining (Nov. 13, 2026) · Original

See also: The Korea Herald Interviews Chief Doctor Lee Moon-won: "From Seoul to 103 Countries"