Using Diet To Examine The Cause Of Hair Loss And Improve It

Your diet may be involved in your hair loss problem. A doctor, nutritionist or registered dietician can help you to examine your present diet and to find out if you can improve it in an...

Your diet may be involved in your hair loss problem. A doctor, nutritionist or registered dietician can help you to examine your present diet and to find out if you can improve it in an effort to stop or prevent further hair loss.

Iron deficiency can contribute to and is often times a major cause of hair loss. In fact, 72% of women surveyed for hair loss were diagnosed with low iron. Typically low iron causes you to lose hair slowly.

Did you know that women during their reproductive years could lose as much as 15 mg. of iron with each menstrual cycle? A pregnant woman can lose as much as 1000 mg. of iron during her entire pregnancy. Those who consume a lot of coffee or tea or eat a lot of bran can also experience poor iron absorption, which can also lead to hair loss.

Iron levels can be detected by a simple blood test. Your doctor can use the results of this test to determine if your levels are too low. Iron supplements can be prescribed to help correct this iron problem and help you to stop or avoid future hair loss.

Deficiencies in Vitamins A, certain B vitamins, vitamin biotin, and also vitamin C can also cause hair loss. If you are deficient when it comes to copper, protein or zinc in your diet you can also suffer from hair loss. Those who severely deplete the amount of water they take into their bodies on a regular basis can also suffer hair loss.

There are many ways to improve any deficiencies you may have in your diet so that you can improve your hair loss problems. A registered dietician, nutritionist or your doctor can help you to improve your diet by suggesting foods that contain the vitamins or other nutrients that you are lacking. Food sources such as eggs, fish oil, fortified milk, and liver are good animal sources for vitamin A. Plant sources for the same vitamin include foods that are orange, red or yellow in color or vegetables that are dark, green and leafy.

A diet that is deficient in B6, folic acid or vitamin B12 may benefit by eating more chicken, fish, kidney beans, pork or soybeans. Other good sources of B6 and folic acid are cereals, nuts, and legumes. Folic acid can also be obtained by eating leafy, green vegetables, by using brewer’s yeast when baking, by eating avocado, beets or broccoli and by drinking orange juice. You can also get more B12 in your diet by eating fish, poultry, and eggs or by drinking milk and by eating milk-containing foods.

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