Healthy hair

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Hair is an indicator of our health. The best way to maintain healthy hair is healthy lifestyle, including a balanced diet. Animals in the nature preserve to the end of life beautiful fur, feathers or scales due to the fact that they correct feed from a physiological point of view. They eat only what its body needs.

Along with the erratic nutrition, some popular diets also cause great harm to our health, including the health of hair, especially those diets that promise "lightning" slimming. Typically, these diets are restrictive in nature, thus depriving the body of many essential nutrients for health.

For example, if any food product at the same time contains fats and sugars, this can contribute to the accumulation of platelets in the blood. This not only slows down the movement of blood through the vessels, but there may be life-threatening blood clots - thrombi. Since the "normal western diet" is abundant by such products, there is nothing surprising in the fact that cardiovascular diseases are especially prevalent among the very "rich" countries of the Western world.

But there is another serious health risk, along with malnutrition. It is associated with oxidative processes in the body that inflict it significant damage.

For those who are keen on dieting, there is only one way to keep hair - take supplements to make up for shortages of minerals and vitamins, which is formed due to shortfalls in food.

Beautiful hair is the main ornament of women. But, paradoxically, men have on the body in general more hair than women. Do not forget that the hair grow not only on the head, but in almost all parts of the body except the skin of palms, soles of the feet, lips, eyelids, nipples of breast and certain parts of the genitalia.

Most of the human body, including the cheeks and forehead, covered with fine slim hairs (fluff). Length of the fluff hair is a few millimeters, and they can be so thin, almost invisible.

More thick and wiry hair forms our eyebrows and eyelashes. It is believed that their role is to protect the eyes from sweat, dust and too bright light. It is also believed that the short hairs growing in the nostrils and external auditory canal, playing the role of a filter that protects against penetration of insects, dust and other irritants.

Axillary and pubic hair, as believed, also plays a protective role - they protect the skin from irritation caused by friction.

Most long hair, which makes up our hairstyle, protects the head from injury and from the rays of the sun, but is more importantly, that the hair on our head is the ornament, some symbol or sign. The beauty of our hair, as well as how well we take care of them and what hairstyle we wear is an integral part of our image, language of sexual and social intercourse. Hair gives a certain image and helps build our position in society.

Most part of the hair - its shaft - is in fact dead, it has no blood supply or nerve connections. Hair can not draw nutrition from the outside, food to them comes only from the skin.

Every hair on our bodies grows out of follicle - straw-like deeper into the skin, through which it reaches the surface. The size, shape and direction of growth of the follicle define size, shape and direction of hair growth. If the follicles in the scalp are positioned vertically, you are likely to be straight hair. Curly or wavy hair to grow when the follicles are curved or tilted.

Follicle is only a protective shell for the hair, but hair it is not here formed. Hair parents are hair bulb and the papilla, which is located at the base of the follicle. Hair cells are born on the periphery of the papilla, which is the "factory" of proteins. The formation of new cells replacing old cells up, and these cells according to their recovery form the hair shaft.

Papilla needs for its life constant filling with blood, and only through the papilla nutrients come in the hair bulb. Hair grows up as long as the papillae function. Without papilla new cells of hair can not be formed.

With natural hair loss only shaft is separated and papilla just beginning to grow new hair. This process happens every day - falling hair are replaced by new ones.

On an average we lose every day from 50 to 100 hairs - what is left on your pillow, in the bath or hairbrush. Daily hair loss is a normal process, because lost hair replaced by new ones. Just hair loss suggests that your hair grow as a new hair pushes the old out of follicle. But if you do not have hair fall out, it means that your papillae do not produce new hair.

Why, then, hair thinning? This happens if papilla loses strength and begins to produce instead of the normal hair the thinner fluff. Then lost hair on your head replaced with "fluff". Hair thinning is noticeable when about 40% of the initial normal hair falls without equivalent replacement.

Life of papilla depends on its full blood supply. Leather is the largest organ in our body, and its blood supply is required from 1/2 to 2/3 the volume of blood circulating in the body. A network of blood vessels, which penetrates the scalp is the most extensive in the body. It is clear that any violation of the blood supply affect the state of your hair.

In addition, the papilla is an extremely high rate of metabolism, therefore requires a regular supply of nutrients and oxygen. If the blood circulation for some reason is disturbed (eg due to narrowing of capillaries), the papillae can not provide full replacement for falling hair, and atrophy.

To fully functioning papillae require a variety of nutrients, including in the full protein diet.

97 percent of the mass of hair is keratin, a protein that contains sulfur. When protein deficiency hair is getting thin. Hairdressers are often able to establish protein deficiency on the hair of its customers. Therefore, a prerequisite for luxuriant hair is a food rich in proteins.

It is not that your diet contains as much protein foods - meat, fish, poultry or cheese. More important is that proteins contained in food are well assimilated. This is possible only with the full variety of foods, which includes fruits, vegetables, salads and cereals containing vitamins and minerals, enzymes and plant fibers.

Such a balanced diet provides normal acidity of the stomach, as well as the production of enzymes in the stomach and intestine break down proteins. Digestibility of proteins in this case may rise by 40 percent. At the same time, harmful polyamines (ie, undigested protein molecules) will no longer come into the scalp with blood). Dandruff no longer be formed, hair loss will diminish.

Enrichment of foods with zinc helps to better preserve and even restore hair color. Zinc is an antagonist of copper - the main causes of gray hair. At deficiency of zinc in the diet (uncommon), each new disappointment will add you another strand of gray hair. Zinc deficiency in itself creates a burden on the nervous system, and if this be added with stress, then the result may be graying and hair loss.

B-vitamins, especially vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) and B3 (niacin), are the most important substances necessary for hair growth. For the pigmentation of hair are necessary PABA, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), folic and pantothenic acids. Those who completely refuse from sugar and sweets, and every morning eats one cup of rubbing raw grains of oats, barley, rye, wheat - suspending the process of graying and even restore the color of gray hair.

For growth and hair health are important also such B vitamins as biotin and inositol. Inositol maintains a balance of copper and zinc in the cells - remember what was said above about the causes of gray hair. Biotin maintains the health of hair. Biotin is found in many products: bulgur (a product of processed wheat), green peas, lentils, walnuts, sunflower seeds, soybean, cereals, brewer's yeast and brown rice.

Beautiful, smooth skin and thick, silky hair, figuratively speaking, born in the intestines, and biotin might help in this more than all the beauty institutes in the world. This is all the more striking that it should be only one thousandth of a gram of this vitamin in the liver, as a permanent reserve to supply not only cells of the skin and hair, but the whole organism this amazing nutrient.

Biotin is contained in the yeast, liver, egg yolk, tomatoes, soya beans, the raw rice and bran. However, biotin which is needed for our cells, mainly produced by bacteria in our intestines. This is possible only if the intestinal microflora does not break. Intestinal microbes need only complete a healthy meal to diligently do their work.

Since biotin contains sulfur, it can be called vitamin of beauty for skin, hair and nails. Beautiful, smooth skin and thick, silky hair "create" in the intestine. This is where the bacteria produce biotin.

Since biotin controls fat exchange and mainly located in the skin and hair, it naturally affects the fat content in the skin. Where lack of biotin, comes seborrhea - impaired function of the sebaceous glands. Its effects are, in particular, hair loss and dandruff. Since this occurs also the lack of sulfur, the skin pale, and hair becomes dull. Nails also become more brittle.

Another member of the B group to healthy hair is vitamin B12 , which is contained in meat and eggs. Without this vitamin hair just can not live. Nowadays hair loss in women is often caused in this reason. The same can be said about iron, as its main source, as well as vitamin B12, is meat products.

Vitamin E provides a blood oxygen saturation and delivering into cells, it improves blood circulation in the scalp. It also improves immunity and thus maintains healthy hair. We can therefore assume that vitamin E is responsible for hair growth and prevents them from falling out. The optimal amount of vitamin E (daily demand) is 10-30 mg (400 IU).

Vitamin C is also important for growth and maintain healthy hair, as it improves circulation to the scalp, strengthening and cleansing the capillaries, which improve nutrition of hair follicles. It is now believed that the optimum daily requirement of vitamin C is not less than 500 milligrams.

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