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The diet and eating habits can be a potential cause of hair loss

The diet and eating habits can be a potential cause of hair loss if not controlled, the food we eat. Every day there are more people in their diets do not include all the nutrients needed to maintain a strong and healthy hair. That is one reason why in Western societies alopecia is becoming a more common problem.

Today we will focus on vitamins have relevance for our hair. Therefore, we must include the appropriate amount of each vitamin in the diet for the hair to grow strong and healthy. Then list them by explaining the importance of each:

First, Vitamin A is very important in the production of sebum. Without it, the hair would be dry and scurfy.

Vitamin B also is important for healthy hair. All varieties of vitamin B helps with hemoglobin that carries oxygen to the scalp that needs to grow healthily. (more…)

Do not forget the vitamins B

The eight water soluble B vitamins sometimes called the stress vitamins “because they are the first to go when the body is under stress. Although often collectively known as vitamin B, are actually chemically distinct nutrients which coexist in the same food and the same carried out similar physiological functions.

These functions play a key role in supporting muscle action and metabolic health in general, including converting food into energy, maintaining a healthy nervous system and the production of testosterone. The eight vitamins are:

• B1 (thiamine)
• B2 (riboflavin)
• B3 (niacin, includes nicotinic acid and nicotinamide)
• B5 (pantothenic acid)
• B6 (pyridoxine)
• B7 (biotin)
• B9 (folic acid)
• B12 (Cobalamin)

There are four factors contained in the acid complex of B vitamins, choline, inositol, lipoic acid and para-amino benzoic acid (PABA), which helps in the metabolism of fats and glucose, among other things. (more…)