Being healthy is important for a number of reasons. For starters those who are healthy often feel much better and have a great deal more energy than those who are not healthy do. One thing that surprises many, however, is how much being healthy can help a man to be able to keep his crowning glory. Hair needs to have vitamins and nutrients as much as any other part of the body does in order to stay healthy. Most women realize that there are a number of vitamins that can be put on the hair or in the body that can help the hair to stay healthy and strong. Vitamins such as the B vitamins and E vitamins are a great way to keep your hair healthy, lessening the chance of it falling out.
Modern diets can be blamed for a number of nutritional deficiencies that may contribute to hair loss.
* Refining of whole grains reduces the B vitamin content.
* Overcooking of vegetables destroys B vitamins.
* Most people have a lack of raw leafy greens in the diet.
* The vitamins that have been ingested are directed to aid in the digestion of excess refined carbohydrates such as sugar and white flour that are deficient in B vitamins.
* Stimulants such as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol rob the body of vital nutrients.
* High levels of cholesterol are linked with the production of DHT which is a major contributor to male pattern type baldness.
* Excessive salt intake may influence hair loss due to its tendency to accummulate in tissue.
* Low fibre intake inhibits the digestion process thus reducing the body's ability to pass nutrients into the blood stream.
These nutritional inadaquacies affect all aspects of health and well-being but do they have any relevance to hair loss specifically?
The answer is yes - poor nutrition can cause hair loss because the body will ration out nutrients in the order of vital organs first and hair last. Improved nutrition will not result in new hair growth, but it will minimize shedding and support other treatments that encourage regrowth.
Before you start worrying too much about male hair loss, learn a bit about your family history. Look at your uncles and your grandparents and even your father. Do they have a receding hair line? You can even go further back into the family history and can dig out old photos of relatives. Did they have to deal with hair loss? If you have a number of relatives who became bald or who had receding hair lines, you may have to deal with the hormone known most commonly as DHT, which can cause hair loss in men.
If you’ve already begun losing your hair, either in the front or in the back, you should look for a good male hair loss treatment product now. The sooner you treat your hair loss, the faster your body will be able to fight back against whatever is causing the loss and the quicker your hair will grow back, allowing you to look, and feel, young, or at least younger, once again and making it easy to not be one of those family members who is bald.
