Read - Hair Loss & Vitamin Deficiency

      Research has shown that vitamin deficiency can certainly be at the root of your hair loss problems. Hair follicles need a healthy blood supply and enough vitamins and minerals to build and grow healthy hair from. So how does a vitamin deficiency affect your hair? And what can you do to resolve the issue?

      Hair loss is not only affected by your diet. Even if you lead a very healthy lifestyle you could still lose your hair as there as hereditary factors affecting hair growth too. There is a hormone called the DHT hormone that can genetically affect a person. This means that the hormone will shrink the human hair follicles. This of course causes hair loss in a person. This factor and vitamin deficiency problems mostly affect hair loss in women.

      You are what you eat right? It is only logical that our hair is affected by what kinds of foods and other nutrition you put in your body. What food and drink you end up choosing will be reflected in the health of your hair.

      Vitamin deficiency is not necessarily caused by a poor diet. However, eating a diet based on fast food or on precooked meals will contribute to unhealthy hair. At first you won't realize the damage it does but eventually you will start to notice the hair loss, poor texture of hair, breakage, and an unhealthy look.

      Cutting down fat is important. However, you need certain oils and Omega-3 oils are very important in your diet. Eat plenty of fish (sardines and salmon are great), avocado and fresh nuts and seeds to get those good oils into your system.

      A very important vitamin related to healthy hair and hair loss is the vitamin B6. This vitamin helps to keep your blood healthy and helps to distribute all the necessary nutrients and vitamins into the body's system via a healthy blood channel. Nuts and seeds, spinach, milk and meats contain this vitamin.

      Other vitamins that you need for healthy hair are the vitamins A and E, vitamin K and it is important to make sure that tour diet supplies you with plenty of zinc and magnesium too, to help the body build healthy and strong hair.