Vitamins For Hair Growth
Hair, like any other part of the body needs nutrients to help it grow properly. Vitamins, of course are one of the sources of nutrients for your hair and can be a natural hair loss treatment. Now there can be difficulties with getting enough vitamins to your scalp to feed your hair, which can be behind what causes baldness. For some people they may simply be not getting enough vitamins into their body because of poor diet. If this is the case, then to start off with you want to look at your fruit and veg intake and question if you are doing your 5 a day, and failing that then they need to take supplements to boost their vitamin intake.
One of the other difficulties the hair faces in getting a good amount of vitamins to it is that if your body needs these nutrients elsewhere, then they will go elsewhere first and not the scalp. So to summarize when your body needs to repair somewhere, then it will pull the nutrients to that particular point and not let them spread around the body.
Back to the food aspect, eating a balanced and varied diet is obviously good for your health anyway, but even so because of the way food is produced and transported these days, even taking your five a day may not be enough to get you all your vitamins that you need, this can mean even less nutrients for your hair. And on top of that there are two items that are regularly put in our food which are deemed to be detrimental to our hair and they are sugar and salt, but there are vitamins that can combat these too, and we’ll take a look at them now.
The first vitamin to get into your diet is A which is Retinol. Dosage should be between 10,000 to 25000 IU’s, you need to be at the higher end of the dosage if you are of a larger frame and vice versa if you are quite small
The other vitamin which is needed is B. Vitamin B is thought too be very beneficial against hair loss and can easily be found in supplement form. One thing to bear in mind if you supplement with vitamin B is that your body will only use what it needs and excrete what it does not so you may find your urine going an interesting shade of yellow.
Vitamin C is next up. Be careful with vitamin C as taking too much can lead to an upset stomach. To get best results take somewhere between 300 and 400 mg.
Another vitamin to add to the list is vitamin E. This is another vitamin that you need to adjust the dosage to you size. You should have somewhere between 400 and 800 mg but try not to exceed 800mg. For those that struggle digesting fats vitamin E is also available in soluble form.
Finally there is vitamin H (which is really a vitamin B). This vitamin is rumored to be essential for slowing hair loss. If you are lacking in this vitamin, then on the whole it will show up with you having thinning hair. It works best when taken with the other B vitamins and you need to be having around 300mg.
There you go then, some of the main vitamins that help to how to prevent hair loss, however before you start taking supplements you should consult with your physician, just to make sure you are not going to have any adverse side effects and they may also be able to advise you on the right dosage to take.
March 09 2009 03:28 pm | Diseases, Conditions and Treatments
