Which seasonal vegetables and other natural foods can help to strengthen your hair and increase your hair growth?
Vitamin A
Vitamin A helps strengthen the hair roots, improves hair growth and prevents your hair from falling out, because the vitamin is easy to pile up. That’s why your dietary intake in the fall should contain Provitamin A from sources like spinach, broccoli, carrot, and Bulgarian pepper. Pumpkin is another useful vegetable for healthy hair, and it can help prevent it from falling out. Apart from its record amount of Provitamin A (beta-carotene), it has the most required elements for your hair, including: B, E, C Vitamins, iron, copper, cobalt, zinc, and other trace elements.
Where is Vitamin B found
B group vitamins are necessary to provide your hair with what it needs for permanent growth, and keep it looking shiny and thick. Premature alopecia is provoked by long-term lack of vitamin B. Some of the most important vitamins that we can provide for our hair are, thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), panthenol (B5), pyridoxine (B6), inositol (B8), folic acid (B9), cyanocobalamin (B12).
These vitamins are in all types of food. Potatoes, however are a great source of these. To get the most nutrients out of your potatoes, boil them with their skins on. Carrot, legumes and fresh pea are also a great source of Vitamin B, but dried and canned peas have 15-20 times less.
What does Vitamin C do
This vitamin is responsible for good blood circulation in the scalp and providing regular nourishment of hair follicles. To get the most of this benefit, eat apples, verdure, and sweet peppers. Drinking pomegranate juice, and brewing hips instead of tea will also be a benefit.
Squashes contain an abundance of Vitamin C. It also has a lot of potassium and silicon that help provide a good molecules bond of hair carotene to help strengthen it. This also helps prevent the problem of split ends.
If beautiful and thick hair is what your after, think about adding berries of sea buckthorn to your diet. They are chucked full of good stuff and taste great. Sea-buckthorn berries contain vitamin C and B group vitamins along with many more.They also have 15 micro-elements and flavonoids that can slow down the hairs ageing process. You only need an intake of 100 grams of fresh sea-buckthorn a day to make up for any other vitamin! This is enough to make up for your normal daily allowance. It is especially relevant to remember that vitamins are unreliable and are easily damaged by coming into contact with metal. Vitamin C can diminish as fast as 5-10 minutes after the veggy is wash and cut. Tomatoes and peppers lose 10% and cucumbers lose up to 50%!
Where is all the Vitamin E
You probably didn’t know that Vitamin E is also very important for your hairs growth, therefore, we never get enough. The shortage of vitamin E causes your hair to lose its shine, fall out or start splitting. This vitamin is responsible for putting oxygen in your circulatory system. So, even if you have a diet that is high in vitamin E your hair lacks these healthy elements.
You may find vitamin E in nuts and vegetable oils; recent studies show that alpha-tocopherol held in vegetables is better for your digestion. You can find it in abundance in beans, different kinds of leaf lettuce, spinach, and broccoli, and verdure. Because verdure contains micro-element such as molybdenum you need to add nuts, sunflower and pumpkin seeds into its salads to help promote your hairs growth. Nuts have a lot of zinc and amino acid that are the building blocks for hair.
The P-Factor
P-Factor – or vitamin B3. This is used by cosmetologists as a main product for hair growth and strengthening. It aids in reducing hair loss and helps rejuvenate the scalps circulation. B3 gives hair follicles many needed elements required to slow down the appearance of grey hair. You can find B3 in edible roots like carrot, beetroot, turnip, and parsnip, aubergines, squashes, pumpkin and onion. As you can see, there are many ways to get your daily intake of vitamin B3.
- Gliss Kur – Color Protecting – Shampoo for colored or highlighted hair (keratin, oils, panthenol)
- Leave-In Conditioner, Aloxxi – moistening conditioner with panthenol and oil extracts
- Momo Moisturizing Anti Aging Daily Cream, Davines with walnut extract and E Vitamin
- Masque Dermatologique Laboratoires Biocos – masque for colored, dry and damaged hair with argon oil, panthenol and Vitamin E
- Sensitive Aloe Vera, NaturVital – leave-in spray conditioner for hair moistueizing and shining, with panthenol, wheat proteins and aloe
- Nivea – Effective Volume – Hair Spray with panthenol and B3
- Le Petit Marseillais nourishing masque for Fine/Well hair (flax and almond milk, Vitamin E)
- Spray Cure Volume Hair Care, ToitBel – Volume Hair Spray with panthenol.
People seem to always forget the impotence of vitamin c! It is a vitamin we need daily because we pee it right out! lol It is so important for hair, eyes, teeth, nails, bones and SKIN! I am glad to see it on your list because so many people leave it out. Thanks for all this information. I am going to pass it on!