Hair Loss Diet - Vitamins

By Sarah Rowe

Some forms of hair loss can be directly related to your diet. Making a change in the foods that you eat can often help slow or prevent your hair loss; it will also help keep your hair looking full and healthy. Here we will go over a few of the foods that you should include in a hair loss diet.

It is crucial that, from now on, you include in your diet foods contain plenty of calcium, iron, and silica. It is also important that you eat foods that are rich in protein, this being crucial to your hair growth. You also want to include a good balance of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.

If at some point you find that you cannot get the proper vitamins on a daily basis, you should consider taking some form of vitamin supplement to help reach those daily values needed to be healthy. Another thing to note is that you should try to eat foods that are fresh and try to cook them on the same day that you eat them, or some foods can be eaten without cooking.

When you make changes to your diet in order to further your hair loss efforts, you should try to eat only the foods that are actually going to help with healthy hair growth. Those foods that are high in certain vitamins and nutrients should be focused on. Below we will talk about a couple of these that are important to proper hair growth.

1. Vitamin C - By making sure to take the proper amount of this vitamin, this will help to prevent hair from splitting or breaking. This is done bye helping to produce collagen. This in turn helps with providing structure to the tissue in your body(including the tissues in your scalp) and makes everything hold together.

The best kinds of foods, which can offer you ample amounts of the above vitamin, are citrus fruits, berries and melons, along with vegetables such as potatoes, peppers and dark green leafy ones.

2. Copper - This mineral is found in trace amounts in the body, but it is still essential in the proper formation of hemoglobin. The hemoglobin allows the red blood cells to carry oxygen, it is also vital in that it helps insure that a sufficient amount of blood is supplied to the hair.

In order to boost the amount of copper your body absorbs you should look to increase the amount of organ meats (such as liver), seafood, nuts and seeds in your diet. However, you should make sure that you only take the recommended daily intake of 2 Mg of copper each day and no more.

Along with the recommended amounts of Vitamin C and copper, there are other equally important that you should not overlook. Each day you should be getting the daily amounts of Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Zinc, and protein. Do not forget water as it is also very important in this process. It helps with transporting all of these vitamins and minerals to where you need them in your body. This in turn makes the conditions better for hair growth and to prevent hair loss.