Food for hair growth and thickness can be complicated, with many things to consider. Most cases I help with hair loss, hair thinning and scalp treatment Brisbane, have underlining nutritional deficiency history.
As Trichologist I base food for hair growth on blood test results to provide what the body needs at a cellular level to function and support any deficiency or low that may be present. Food alone sometimes is not enough.
Nutrients for hair growth
The before and after story we refer to today had 3 nutritional deficiencies that we worked with food for hair growth:
- Iron and ferritin deficiency
- Vitamin D deficiency
- B12 deficiency
All these nutrients are required in sufficiency for normal cell function. Low iron, low ferritin, low vitamin D and low B12 will disturb the hair cycle and cause diffuse hair loss, telogen effluvium. When nutritional levels are not sufficient, meaning it is no longer deficient in the medical terms, but still low levels in functional terms, it can then result in hair thinning, the hair cannot grow back to its genetic hair type, diffuse hair thinning.
Top 5 foods to prevent hair loss
Don’t fall into the trap of eating just for your hair. Food for hair growth should provide nutrition for the body. The body needs in order of importance, pH balance, minerals, essential fatty acids, vitamins, antioxidants, pre and probiotics.
- Alkaline food for pH balance, non-starchy vegetables, and fruit
- Animal protein for minerals, hormone free
- Eggs, fish, nuts, seeds, coconut, avocado, safe oils for essential fatty acids (EFA’s)
- Rainbow vegetables and fruit for vitamins and safe protein
- Vegetable, fruit and the EFA’s for to make antioxidants
- Fermented food for natural pre and probiotics
If you can keep this food in balance, by eating different foods daily and weekly, practising food combining to ensure absorption, you may be able to meet your nutritional requirements with food. This can be complicated, so I suggest starting with one meal a day, combine fresh vegetables with clean hormone free protein, top with nuts, seeds, raw cold pressed oil and a small serve of fermented vegetables, yum!
Foods that cause hair loss
These foods won’t make your hair fall out. But we put them here under foods that cause hair loss because they are nutrient robbers and will block all the nutrients from the meal you have anywhere near them. For those in a deficiency status or with inflammatory and autoimmune issues, avoid these completely.
- Gluten, we start of with the wheat first
- Dairy, culprits are lactose and casein
- Sugar, the man-made type, natural sugars are ok
If you are consuming these nutrient robbing foods, you are setting yourself up for malabsorption. You will get calories from the food but nothing else. These foods also cause leaky gut and inflammation. There is scientific evidence, and a lot of it, even if you are not feeling ill effects from eating these foods, they are damaging you internally.
Super important to avoid these foods at any meal you are taking nutritional supplements with. Start with one meal a day.
Low iron and hair loss
Food for hair growth needs to consider both low iron and low ferritin can cause hair loss and hair thinning. Iron is from what you eat. Ferritin is the storage of your iron. Eating iron is the first step. Absolique Trichologist can provide you with a document to help understand what iron is and how to eat, we call it ‘Food for Ferritin’. Following the 5 foods to prevent hair loss above and foods that cause hair loss will also help. Email Absolique Trichologist for a copy of food for ferritin and a recipe booklet to get you started.
Vitamin d deficiency hair loss
Vitamin D deficiency hair loss is real. The human body needs vitamin D so much, more than the medical community yet know. Vitamin D cancer research from 8 years ago and again more recently with covid, show our sufficient levels are much higher than anticipated. Vitamin D deficiency is common and is contributing to hair loss, skin conditions, autoimmune diseases, hormonal problems, and lowered immunity.
Low levels of vitamin D disturb the hair cycle, hair is non-essential to health, so the vitamin D will go where it is needed the most. In a deficiency status there will be physical hair loss, pattern hair loss, alopecia hair loss and skin conditions all at once. One of the tell-tale signs is extra oily scalp and skin. The body signs of low oil, vitamin D is a fat/oil soluble vitamin, is extra oil.
Anaemia hair loss
Anaemia hair loss is related to B12, iron and haemoglobin. When told you are anaemic, you should check all of these in your blood tests. Food can help raise both iron and B12 to overcome anaemia hair loss. Low B12 on its own without anaemic state can also cause hair loss. All of these nutritional lows disturb the hair cycle resulting is the diffuse hair loss, telogen effluvium.
Diet for hair growth
The best diet for hair growth is a balanced diet. Use the tools we have provided above, pH balanced food, food combining as per the pH scale, check bloods for your individual nutrient levels, fill the gaps, use supplements where needed. Avoid nutrient robbers, and avoid processed packaged and junk food, it is not real food anyway.
Best food for hair
Best food for hair is real food. Don’t overcomplicate things, get back to basics, look for clean animal proteins, hormone free and combine with non-starchy vegetables in one meal a day. Another meal can be the carbohydrates with plant proteins, they work so well together. Then another meal or snack can focus on essential fatty acids.
Be carful not to get consumed with food. If you take it too far it can cause food stress, that does not help with absorption. Baby steps, ne meal at a time and create habits that stick and become lifestyle.
Trichologist
As Absolique Trichologist I help people all around the world find solutions to hair loss, ahir thinning and scalp conditions. This story was based on a client who worked with her family, husband and two young children, to fix her food. We provided supporting nutrition with green drink, minerals, iron, vitamin D and B12 supplements. The result over 4 months was impressive, see what you can do when you provide the body with the simple nutrients it needs.
Email Absolique Trichologist at ua.mo1787336779c.euq1787336779ilosb1787336779a@ofn1787336779i1787336779 you can also request food for ferritin or ask for help. Check out more stories and blogs on our website https://hair-loss-treatments.com.au/blog/