| Good nutrition is vital to healthy hair | | | | iron and is difficult for the body to absorb, |
| growth, just as it's essential to overall | | | | as are many iron supplements. |
| good health. Although your body needs a | | | | |
| variety of vitamins and minerals to maintain | | | | Good heme iron sources are green leafy |
| proper body functions, there are several that | | | | vegetables, kidney beans, and bran. Also, one |
| are specific to hair growth and health. | | | | can increase the absorption of non-heme iron |
| | | | into the body by consuming non-heme food |
| Vitamin C antioxidant that helps maintains | | | | sources and vitamin C sources in the same |
| skin & hair health. Food sources: Citrus | | | | meal. |
| fruits, strawberries, kiwi, cantaloupe, | | | | |
| pineapple, tomatoes, green peppers, potatoes | | | | Using protein and moisture treatments can |
| and dark green vegetables. Daily Dose: 60 mg. | | | | help rebuild hair strength and keep it from |
| | | | breaking. The reason it is so important to |
| Vitamin B6 prevents hair loss; helps create | | | | use protien treatments is because the hair is |
| melanin, which gives hair its color. Food | | | | made mostly of protein, acutally about 88%. |
| sources: Brewer's yeast, liver, whole grain | | | | When your hair is relaxed, for example, many |
| cereals, vegetables, organ meats and egg | | | | of the protein bonds in the hair are broken. |
| yolk. Daily dose: 1.6 mg. Warnings: High | | | | This allows the curly pattern to become |
| doses can cause numbness in hands and feet. | | | | looser, and eventually straight. |
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| Vitamins and minerals are taken to supplement | | | | Hair vitamins can do more to promote healthy |
| for any deficiency. Eating a balanced diet | | | | hair growth than any shampoo or conditioner. |
| may be sufficient to obtain all the important | | | | Your diet profoundly effects the health of |
| vitamins and minerals you need. However, | | | | not only internal systems and organs, but |
| whenever a deficiency is noticed by way of | | | | external ones including the hair, skin, and |
| malfunction of any bodily function, vitamin | | | | fingernails. Hair vitamins can be helpful in |
| supplements can be taken to stop this | | | | addressing a variety of hair concerns from |
| malfunction. | | | | hair that grows too slowly to hair that is |
| | | | thinning. Hair Stimulator Vitamins were |
| There are many levels of treatment to | | | | designed for the fastest hair growth |
| jump-start ovulation. Halverson often starts | | | | possible. |
| with something as simple as taking five pills | | | | |
| a month to stimulate the ovary. Or, later, | | | | Certain essential amino acids are found to |
| she may recommend stronger fertility drugs | | | | control the thinning and thickening of hair |
| that require monitoring with ultrasounds and | | | | in laboratory animals. For example, when rats |
| blood tests. The good news is that more than | | | | were fed a diet deficient in magnesium, they |
| 90% of women with anovulation are able to | | | | lost their hair in bunches. The situation was |
| release an egg with appropriate treatment. | | | | even more serious with some other B-vitamins. |
| | | | When rats were fed a diet low in biotin or |
| Another key mineral vital in the production | | | | inositol, they became hairless! This |
| of hemoglobin is iron. Iron is found in two | | | | nutrient-deficient condition was found to be |
| forms, heme and non-heme; heme iron is much | | | | reversible. When the rats were fed a diet |
| easier to absorb into the system. Of course | | | | that was rich in B vitamins, it resulted in |
| most people know that red meat is a good | | | | the complete restoration of hair. |
| source of iron, however red meat is non-heme | | | | |