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Just thinking over dinner about diet and your hair 28th June, 2008
As a hair loss specialist, a trichologists, to me it is rather obvious that if the body is in good health, this will be reflected in the hair. Yet not everyone thinks about this in hair loss, especially if the hair loss is in younger people or receeding hair in men.
A well-balanced diet is one of the important factors which help to achieve and maintain a healthy body and so have fewer hair problems. Many factors in what you eat can affect alocepia, hair thinning and especially for women, hair loss due to the bodies natural changes (for more information join our newsletters).
The health of your hair very much reflects the adequacy of your diet. So your diet can become your remedy for hair loss, your diet and trichology products can help you defeat hair loss and grow hair which is longer, fuller and healthier.
There are no rules to your healthy diet, except that you should attempt to eat several of the foods listed here in any given day, and a food from each category at least three times in any one week and if you need more help come see us.
Ones you will have heard of:
Iron: Iron deficiency, with or without associated anaemia, has been reported in about 70 per cent of women with diffuse alopecia which needs a women hair loss treatment like HairSense.
Zinc: Zinc deficiency is associated with hair loss, various hair shaft defects and the overall health of the scalp skin – vital for growing hair.
Vitamin A: Vitamin A is important for the integrity of epithelial tissues such as the skin of the scalp. Zinc and Vitamin A appear to work together and deficiencies of either are associated with dry, breaking hair which can happen with hair problems.
Ones you may not know so much about:
Tyrosine and methionine: Cysteine and methionine are the principal sources of sulphur in the diet and are absolutely essential for the maintenance of hair structure. Tyrosine is the starting point for synthesis of the hair pigments and is necessary for the synthesis of the hormone thyroxin, which is important for maintaining health of the hair.
Biotin: A diffuse, sparse type of alopecia has been linked to biotin deficiency whilst Seborrhoeic dermatitis has definitely been linked to biotin deficiency in infants.
If you want any more information on how diet can help you with your hair problems, please visit us at our trichology offices.
