1. Brush twice a day until scalp tingles
2. Wash hair twice a week only (shampoo twice)
3. Massage scalp with olive oil and/or lemon juice every day
4. Eat a "healthy" diet
5. Take extra supplements as necessary
CURE FOR BALDNESS or THINNING HAIR??
Heard on (a reliable grapevine) that "brushing" - not combing - the hair twice a day encourages new bushier hair growth!! (pig bristle brush best but expensive)
So there could be some value in supposed "old wives' tales" yet?? Like - "Brush your hair 100 times a day" - (perhaps not that many). If we think about it, extra stimulation to the scalp increases blood supply, bringing more nutrients to further hair growth. So it ought to work. The person reporting to us states that her own hair has grown much thicker since she started brushing it twice a day and she has seen new growth in bald patches on men!
Other old ways of note are -
* shampooing twice when washing
* egg shampoos and lemon rinses
* oiling the hair (feeds the scalp -
use olive oil)
* brushing hair "up" as well as down
* massaging the scalp with the fingers
or brush twice a day to stimulate the circulation.
The state of our hair may actually be telling us something about the health of our bodies. (It is more drab when we are sick. Hairdressers say they often know when a person is sick before the doctor does - because of the change in a person's hair.) Stress, disease, poor diet, nutritional deficiencies, toxins and heavy metals can change the condition, feel and colour of the hair.
The Table below gives some of the common problems we recognise, possibly why it happens and so how we might try to fix our hair and other problems.
Hair is a hard compound of proteins and minerals, formed by the hair follicle which gets its nutrition from the blood supply. We have around 100,000 individual hairs and normally lose about 50 -100 a day . The life expectancy of a hair is 3-6 years. It grows at about 0.35mm a day or half an inch a month. Hair grows more in summer than winter. Many vitamins & minerals are needed for healthy hair.
When we are sick or not eating well the hair will look drab, dull and unruly. Hair colour is darker when we eat more meat, lighter on a fish or vegetarian diet. A reddish tint or red hair shows poor use of protein
White hair is due to replacement of protein with
air bubbles in hair strand ie lack of pigment (dark from tyrosine in meat;
cysteine gives yellow or orange pigment). Medical drugs, electrical
fields and sunlight also affect hair.
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| Baldness | brushing, zinc, folic acid, biotin, iron, B12, more nutrients, less fat |
| Brittle hair | low in essential fatty acids, zinc or copper |
| Coarse, sparse hair | zinc, treat low thyroid |
| Corkscrew/kinky | low in copper |
| Curly hair | nutritional deficiencies |
| Dandruff | need EFAs, selenium, zinc, Vit B2, B6, biotin |
| Dermatitis/Psoriasis | zinc, B6, A, C, E, B5, B6 |
| Dry, dull, lifeless | EFAs, B5, check thyroid, lemon |
| Grey hair | Vit B12, B5, PABA |
| Head Lice | low EFAs, poor nutrition, too much shampooing |
| Itchy scalp Psoriasis | too much sugar in diet, low in zinc, massage with oil |
| Oily hair | low in Vit B2, excess sulphur/dietary fats |
| Painful scalp | low in vitamin D |
| Sensitive scalp | low in magnesium |
| Slow growing | low in zinc, B12, folic acid |
| Split ends, splitting /breaking | Vit B12, EFAs, Vit C, using harsh shampoos |
| Straight hair | need B5, B2, too much copper |
| Thinning hair | Brush hair, treat low thyroid |
| Tugs/uncombable | nutritional deficiencies, biotin |
| Unruly hair | low in B12, other nutritional deficiencies, right brained |
| HEALTHY HAIR
1. Brush twice a day until scalp tingles 2. Wash hair twice a week only (shampoo twice) 3. Massage scalp with olive oil and/or lemon juice every day 4. Eat a "healthy" diet 5. Take extra supplements as necessary |
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