Friday, September 27, 2013

Manage Your Hair Loss Effectively With These Tips

By S. Newman


In order to maintain overall health, it is vital that you maintain a healthy and balanced diet. Many other factors have been identified as being significant contributors to hair loss, however, the fact that hair is a part of the complex system that makes up the human body can not be ignored. Like in any system, when one part of the whole goes wrong, it can cause a chain reaction in other parts of the system, causing problems elsewhere.

The best way to maintain a healthy vitamin and mineral intake is a good diet. It is not necessary or advisable to go out and buy a bunch of over-the-counter vitamin supplements in order to achieve your suggested nutritional levels. Many over-the-counter vitamins are chemically processed and are not completely absorbed into the system. It is also easy to overdose oneself with over the counter vitamins particularly when taking supplements of fat-soluble vitamins and minerals, causing toxicity and adverse reactions.

The most sensible way to maintain the vitamin and mineral levels required to keep a healthy head of hair is to sustain a well balanced diet. Taking excessive over the counter vitamin supplements in order to substitute for a good diet is not advised. There are a number of pharmacy bought vitamin supplements which are chemically processed in such a way that it makes it difficult for the body to process the vitamins adequately. It is also too easy to overdose with pharmacy bought vitamin supplements, leading to bad reactions and potential toxicity; especially the fat soluble vitamins. It is near impossible to overdose on vitamins obtained from good foods rich in vitamins, therefore it is advisable to get the majority of your vitamin requirements from your diet.

One of the critical vitamins required for the development of healthy hair and all other tissues and cells is vitamin A. The sebaceous glands in the scalp are important in the production of sebum, which lubricates the hair follicles- vitamin A, combined with silica and zinc, helps to prevent the sebaceous glands from drying up and becoming clogged. This means that when vitamin A is lacking, a common occurrence is dry hair, a thickening of the scalp and dandruff.

Air pollution, smoking, extremely bright light, certain cholesterol-lowering drugs, laxatives, and aspirin are some known vitamin A inhibitors. Liver, fish oil, eggs, fortified milk, and red, yellow, and orange vegetables are good sources for vitamin A, as are some dark green leafy vegetables like spinach. Be particularly careful if you take vitamin A supplements, as vitamin A is fat-soluble, allowing the body to store it and making it easy for the body to overdose on vitamin A. Vitamin A overdoses can cause excessively dry skin and inflamed hair follicles, and in some cases ironically can cause hair loss. If you choose to take vitamin pills consult with a specialist first.




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