Vitamins For Hair Growth
Just like any other part of the body, hair needs essential nutrients to grow. 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. My advice to these people would be to try and ensure that they are getting their five a day in terms of fruit and vegetables, if you struggle with the 5 a day then try and get good quality supplements instead.
What you may also find happens to the hair 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 in essence 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.
Coming back to the food side of things, a healthy diet is important for you in so many aspects in your general health and not just hair, but sometimes 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, which of course can effect your hair. Also 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, the good news is there are some vitamins we can use to combat salt and sugar, 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
After vitamin A you need to then look at the vitamin B group. Vitamin B is thought too be very beneficial against hair loss and can easily be found in supplement form. If using vitamin B do not be surprised if your urine goes an amazing shade of yellow, as this is your body getting rid of the vitamin B that it does not need.
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.
You need to be taking around 4-800mg of vitamin E, but make sure you do not exceed 800mg, and again judge your dosage by your frame, the smaller you are the less you should take. If you have trouble digesting fats you may want to take a water soluble version of vitamin E.
Lastly, there is vitamin H that is really a B vitamin. Vitamin H when taken in conjunction with vitamin B is really beneficial for slowing down hair loss, dosage wise you should be looking at 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 also they will be able to help advise you on dosage levels.
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