Healthy Hair Diet Tips

A hair analysis or hair mineral analysis is carried to analyse the diseases and health symptoms as these are they are responsible for nutritional deficiencies, mineral imbalances and chemical toxicity.
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) tests are done as hair is one of the places where the body eliminates minerals and heavy metals. The levels and pattern of various minerals deposited in the hair can reveal a lot of information about your body chemistry and health.

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Wash oily hair more frequently. How often you wash your hair should be based on how much oil your scalp produces.

If your scalp is oily, you may need to wash it as often as once a day.

If you have chemically treated hair, your hair may be drier, so you may want to wash it less frequently.

As you get older, your scalp makes less oil, so you may not need to shampoo as often. But if you see flakes in your hair, you may not be shampooing enough. This can lead to dandruff a...more

Spinach And Hair Growth!

Most of us take our thick hair for granted in our youth and fail to care for them. Not many notice the receding hairline or thinning of hair until it is too late. A hair restoration can bring back the fuller and thicker locks without any invasive surgical treatment. If hair loss bothers you, and you want a treatment that is safer, you can go for nonsurgical treatments.

The great advantage of these procedures is the increase in the density of hair that reverses your age clock back to 10 ...more

Hair loss or Alopecia is a problem common to both men and women. It can leave you feeling very miserable. But rather than getting upset knowing the cause will help you tackle the problem efficiently. The following are few shocking causes of hair loss that you may not be aware of-

Hair Loss can be a hereditary problem for some people. It can be common to both men and women. Males may encounter male pattern baldness and females can encounter female pattern baldness.
Women can face hai...more

Hair loss is a very common cause of the problem for both men and women. One in four women suffers from some degree of hair loss or thinning hair. In men, balding can begin as early as the age of 21 and by the age of 35, 30% of men will already be experiencing noticeable balding.

All of us suffer from hair fall daily, but only when it becomes an area of concern is when it starts resulting in baldness and thinning of hair. In such cases, the patient becomes increasingly concerned about th...more

- [ 1] low level laser therapy (lllt)
- [ 2] the ability of lasers to induce hair growth was incidentally noted as early as 1967 when mester et al used lllt to treat cancer in mice and excessive hair growth happened to them.
- [ 3] increased atp production and modulation of reactive oxygen species (ros) induced cell stimulation.
- [ 4] hairmax laser comb in 2007 got clearance from fda for male pattern baldness and 2011 for treatment of female pattern hair loss.
- [ 5] 655 nm wave...more

Post-pregnancy hair loss

temporary hair loss ~experienced at the end of a pregnancy
very little hair loss during pregnancy
sudden and excessive shedding from 3-9 months after delivery
estrogen stimulates hair follicles ~ anagen growing phase ~ hair does not cycle as it normally would.
After the child is born ~ estrogen level drops

hair enters the catagen and telogen phase
very traumatic
hair loss ~ returns to normal one year
treatment includes hair v...more

Poor blood circulation

stress and anxiety
thyroid diseases: hypo/hyperthyroid
high blood pressure
iron deficiency and ferritin deficiency
pregnancy
liver malfunction
chemotherapy
b12 & vitamin deficiencies
scalp disorders: psoriasis, seborrheic dermatitis
skin or systemic disease: renal failure etc
large doses of vitamin A
fever: dengue, typhoid etc
hypercholesterolemia, lipid disorders
sudden weight loss
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Hair loss is a common problem and is a source of worry for millions of people around the world. While many forms of treatment have been developed over the years, science has yet to conclusively prove the benefits of many such hair loss treatments. PRP treatment is one such baldness treatment, which is highly popular. However, is it effective at treating baldness?

What is PRP treatment?

Platelet-rich plasma or PRP treatment is a procedure involving three distinct steps. The firs...more