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. The first challenge is that for a lot of people they just are not getting enough vitamins into their diet due to the food they eat. 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, and failing that then they need to take supplements to boost their vitamin intake.
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 whats left will then go elsewhere.
Coming back to the food side of things, 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, 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. 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.
Next on the list is vitamin C. You are probably looking to take 3 to 4000mg of this vitamin for best results. Be careful not to overdo it on vitamin C though as taking too much can lead to an upset stomach.
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.
