Can extended fasting cause Telogen Effluvium?

I read that extended fasting can cause TE even months after the fast. Also as a fat person trying to lose weight, would being in a caloric deficit for a year or longer cause TE or any other type of hair loss? To be clear I have done 48 hour fasts many times and I also have TE. But I have a chronic autoimmune condition too.

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I’m not sure what TE is exactly but when I get to low levels of body fat my hair gets thinner and perhaps less of it. When I bulk back up and add body fat my hair goes back to how it was. Fasting may cause hair lose but it will likely come back after you come off a fast.

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Well I guess the AutoMod confirmed it. But this is bad, how am I supposed to lose weight and keep my hair?? I’m already taking medications to regrow my hair but if I keep dieting apparently I’ll keep losing hair.