It's no secret that the body needs vitamins and hair in particular. However, how do you determine if there is a deficiency and how does this deficiency affect your hair? Can they begin to fall out in bundles from a lack of trace elements and vitamins? And then how do you "feed" your hair with vitamins? We deal with...
MIF #1. It is not necessary to take vitamin complexes, the main thing is to eat properly and then the whole body (including hair) will get from the food.
In today's world, it is impossible to satisfy the need for vitamins from food - you just do not eat so much.
Even at the minimum, I counted 1.8 kg of food a day. Do you eat so much? Meanwhile, we haven't even started to count how much more food we need to eat to get the right amount of micronutrients.
In addition, it is worth considering that:
- A significant part of vitamins is destroyed by heat treatment;
- in the human gastrointestinal tract is not absorbed by 100% of the vitamins consumed with food, and almost nothing if the condition of the gastrointestinal tract is not in good shape;
- Under the influence of stress, both short-term (for example, in sports) and chronic (for example, a tense rhythm of any more or less large city), the need for vitamins and trace elements increases significantly.
Having estimated how much and what you eat during the day, it is easy to answer the question "Does your hair have enough vitamins and trace elements?
For those who have decided to find out the question in detail, there is a blood test for vitamins and trace elements and spectral analysis of hair.
The method of spectral analysis is based on the fact that the growing hair cells are fed by substances carried by blood flow, and at the exit of the sprouts (follicle) fix the composition and ratio of substances obtained in the growth phase.
MIF NO. 2. Sharp and abundant hair loss can begin due to lack of vitamins and trace elements.
Hair is a constantly growing "body", which is caused by cellular activity in the hair follicle. Follicle - a kind of hair "bag", "reservoir" of the hair bulb, located deep under the skin (at a depth of 3 to 6 mm.)
After a period of growth (anagen) lasting from two to eight years followed by a short period of two to four weeks, during which cell division and, as a consequence, hair growth stops, the follicle is reduced (catagen).
Then the resting phase (theologian) begins, lasting from two to four months. Hair is thrown out in the next growth cycle (anagen) when a new hair shaft begins to form from the same follicle.
The growth and rest phases in the adjacent follicles do not coincide, and the process of natural hair replacement is usually almost imperceptible.
Approximately 88-90% of all hair is in the anagenic stage, 1-2% in the catagenic stage, and 10% in the telogenic stage.
There are only two reasons why more than normal 10% of hair can go to the resting (telogenic) stage and fall out: chronic hereditary alopecia (androgenetic alopecia) and reactive loss.
MIF NO. 3. The effect of taking vitamins can be seen on the hair almost immediately.
Such things are impossible, no matter how much we would like to believe in the best. The density of genetic material cannot be changed.
If the hair fell out and fell out and suddenly stopped (2, 3 or 10 days after the start of vitamins), it's not about the vitamins (they still haven't had time to get to the hair).
The period of loss of "emergency shutdown" due to reactive hair loss has simply ended. This, the most common type of loss, fortunately, always stops by itself, regardless of the amount of effort (or lack thereof) involved.
As for the change in hair quality, you can see them only on the newly formed (after the beginning of vitamins) cells, ie, on the growing part, and not the one that has long grown and will not receive any benefits from taking vitamins, because the blood flow is no longer fed.
MIF NO. 4. Hair can be nourished not only from the inside but also from the outside.
Very often in the network in response to the question "how to help hair with vitamins" I see a lot of different answers. In addition to the banal "drink vitamins", there are other recipes for "top dressing", as if hair can eat.
Someone has invented and even "successfully" applied hair masks with vitamins, rubbing vitamin ampoules into the scalp, adding vitamins to shampoo, homemade masks, etc.
So how do you apply vitamins to your hair?
There are only two options: eat or inject, which means that it is either taking vitamins inside or mesotherapy of the scalp. Read about both methods in the following articles.
That's all for today, I'm glad if it was useful.