How And Why Diet Plays A Vital Role For Healthy Hair?

If you find more than a few hairs on your pillow every morning, or quite a few in your hands when you comb or shampoo your hair, you may be suffering from hair loss! While shampoos and hair oil therapies promise more than they are capable of, the best way to help your hair is by providing the nutrition that is needed.

“Just like every other part of your body, the cells and processes that support strong, vibrant hair depend on a balanced diet.”

Incorporate these foods in your diet and grow healthy looking hair!

1. Walnuts

These are the only type of nut that have a good amount of omega-3 fatty acids. They’re rich in biotin and vitamin E, which helps protect your cells from DNA damage. Since your hair rarely gets shielding from the harmful rays of the sun, having a few walnuts could help. Walnuts also have copper, a mineral that helps keep your natural hair color rich and shiny.

2.Salmon

Besides being rich in protein and vitamin D, which are both key to strong hair, the omega-3 fatty acids found in this tasty cold-water fish are the true hero. Your body can’t make those fatty acids, which your body needs to grow hair. So eating salmon will provide you hair all that it needs. Salmon is also considered good for skin.

3. Sweet Potatoes

They’re indeed sweet to your hair! They are a great source of the antioxidant beta carotene, which is converted to Vitamin A by our body. Every cell of the body needs Vitamin A to function. It also helps protect and produce the oils that sustain your scalp. Vitamin A deficiency can even leave you with itchy, irksome dandruff.

4. Eggs

Eggs are a great source of protein. They contain with four key minerals in abundance: zinc, selenium, sulfur, and iron. Iron is especially important, because it helps cells carry oxygen to the hair follicles, and too little iron (anemia) is a major cause of hair loss, particularly in women.

5. Spinach

Rich in iron, beta carotene, folate, and vitamin C, spinach helps keep hair follicles healthy and scalp oils circulating. Other leafy vegetables like broccoli, lettuce also help keep hair healthy.

6. Lentils

These these legumes are full of protein, iron, zinc, and biotin, making it a great staple for vegetarians, vegans, and meat eaters. They are tiny, but very mighty!

7. Poultry

This everyday entree is extraordinary when it comes to protein, as well as hair-healthy zinc, iron, and B vitamins to keep strands strong and plentiful. Because hair is nearly all protein, foods rich in protein are literally giving you the building blocks for hair.

8. Blueberries, strawberries, oranges - Collagen surrounds the hair strands but as we age collagen breaks down, causing hair to be more vulnerable to breaking.  The best way to boost collagen is not through some expensive medical procedure, it’s by getting more vitamin C. Vitamin C is critical for circulation to the scalp and supports the tiny blood vessels that feed the follicles. Too little C in your diet can lead to hair breakage.