Restoring Healthy Hair Growth
Many factors can lead to hair loss such as hormonal changes, predetermined genetic, diseases, medications, hair treatments, stress, and the overall aging process. Of these factors, predetermined genetic is an uncontrollable factor since androgenetic alopecia, more commonly known as male/female pattern baldness, is in an inherited trait. Perhaps in the future, as our knowledge of the human genome expands, we’d be able to suppress the genetic variant that triggers baldness. Until that day comes, the best thing we can do is to take better care of our health and the kind of hair care products we use.
A much overlooked cause of hair loss is poor nutrition. Nutritional deficiencies in vitamins and essential fatty acids can slow hair regrowth and lead to excessive hair loss. One of the major properties of vitamin A, B6, B12, C, E, and essential fatty acids is maintaining healthy hair growth. Deficiency in these vitamins, proteins, and essential fatty acids can lead to dry skin, dandruff, and hair loss.
Food sources:
Vitamin A
Green vegetable: Kale, parsley, spinach, watercress, collard, Swiss chard, Chinese cabbage, Romaine lettuce
Yellow vegetable: carrots, sweet potatoes, winter squash, apricot, persimmon, cantaloupe, peach (more…)