Hair Growth and Nutri­tion Con­trary to pop­u­lar opin­ion the major­ity of the hair is already dead. Noth­ing we apply to our hair will make out hair any health­ier. Nour­ish­ment and per­ma­nent changes to our health must be made from within. This is impor­tant so that the roots, the only live part of the hair can be nourished.

Most peo­ple are aware that many vit­a­mins, espe­cially B vit­a­mins and vit­a­min E have been long rec­om­mended as a cure or method or main­tain­ing healthy skin, hair and nails. There is more than a lit­tle truth to this rec­om­men­da­tion. The human body relies on nutri­ents and vit­a­mins for the pro­duc­tion of many chem­i­cals and amino avoids within the body relies on nutri­ents and vit­a­mins for the pro­duc­tion of many chem­i­cals and amino acids within the body to reg­u­late and per­form nor­mal bod­ily func­tions. One of these mil­lions of func­tions is the reg­u­la­tion of hair growth. Stud­ies have shown that indi­vid­u­als who main­tain a poorly bal­anced diet or tend to go on crash diets will tend to have less healthy skin, hair and nails. Indi­vid­u­als suf­fer­ing from anorexia very com­monly exhibit loss of hair and other skin and nail issues.

There are a num­ber of vit­a­min and nutri­ents the body absolutely must have in order to stim­u­late the growth of healthy hair. Remem­ber, we have already estab­lished that healthy hair must be frown from within. To that end, the body must have ade­quate sup­plies essen­tial and non-essential nutri­ents. While non-essential may sound as thought is not as nec­es­sary, this term sim­ply means that the body is capa­ble of pro­duc­ing it on its own. indi­vid­u­als who have med­ical con­di­tion that pre­vent the body from pro­duc­ing or stor­ing non-essential nutri­ents will need to sup­ple­ment their diets in order to get amounts.

At a min­i­mum, the body needs the fol­low­ing vit­a­mins and nutri­ents to act as a cat­a­lyst for other pro­duc­tions within the body includ­ing the nec­es­sary  growth and main­tained of healthy hair:  

Vit­a­min A

Vit­a­min B

Vit­a­min E

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Iodine