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Hair
Dandruff causes itching, followed by nail injury, loss of the outer protective layer of the scalp increases chance of infection, fungal growth, and hair loss. To prevent dandruff, reduce fried foods, sugary foods, red meat, food with preservatives, additives, artificial tastemakers, and bakery products. Fatty meals also increase the release of androgens.
Wash your scalp regularly to prevent the oil secretion. Wet the scalp massage the shampoo, keep it for 2-3 minutes and then wash, allow time for the shampoo to act.
pH balanced shampoo with no special formula is recommended for dry hair, frizzy hair, oily hair, curly hair, etc. But simple shampoo labeled for daily use or regular use is best suited. The shampoo is used to clean the scalp. Do not overuse it. One can shampoo twice in a week. Wet the scalp massage the shampoo, keep it for 2-3 minutes and then wash, allow time for the shampoo to act. The shampoo should leave Your hair soft and manageable. Reduce the quantity if it makes the hair and frizzy.
Hair does not break during shampoo. Hair loss we see during shampooing is because they are already broken and entangled; they just washed out during the shampooing. If you do not shampoo the hair does not stop from breaking, only you do not see it. If you shampoo every two days the hair broken in two days will flow out. If you shampoo once in five days the hair broken in five days will flow out. Maintaining the scalp clean is required for good hair growth.
Depending on your scalp oiliness and exposure to dust and pollution, you may have to shampoo every day or alternate day. Anti-dandruff shampoo can be used only two times a week.
If hormones are the cause they should equally affect all the hair. Why are some hair thinning while other hair still growing well, on the scalp?
- Researchers agree that hormone levels in hair loss patients are normal, hormones are not raised, you need not counter normal hormones, DHT levels are normal.
- The cells have become weak and defenseless making them susceptible to suffer damage from normal hormones.
- The aim is to strengthen the cells and promote active hair growth instead of fighting normal hormones.
- Hair loss treatment can be done by either fighting the loss or strengthening the weak hair and increasing the growth.
- Various methods of fighting the loss have yielded marginal to no benefit. Our approach is to strengthen the cells and improve hair growth. This can be achieved with the well-planned use of nutritional supplements, which always works.
- Our controlled clinical trial shows 30%-156% new hair growth within 4 months, control of hair loss, and response in all men and women with pattern baldness at all ages.
- Hair loss is not a sickness or disease. Hair loss cannot be corrected by fighting the cause. Causes are vague, abstract, not measurable, not quantifiable, cannot be confirmed with any investigations, causes also keep changing.
- If you treat one cause, hair will fall for another cause.
- The hair is weak and is therefore affected by multiple causes.
We aim to,
- strengthen the hair and make it strong enough to stand for any cause.
The root cause is that for every cycle 5- l 0% of your hair shifts to fall Phase and the fallen hair is not being replaced with new hair leaving an area of thinning which gradually becomes bald.
We ensure that the hair growth is stimulated. Hair roots in the growth phase are provided with nutrients to ensure hair growth and the activity is supported by good scalp hygiene.
There is no course or defined period of time. Cyclical nutrition therapy is more of a care program. The more you follow the better it is. The program grows hair by delivering wellness, good health, and hair growth. You would follow some vitamins & supplements for good health, best to continue the low-dose wellness program. Usually, patients are happy with the results and stop it after 8- 10 months. If you feel the hair is becoming weak you can start the nutrition care again to deliver results.
Like you wash your face apply a moisturizer like you use sunscreen or brush your teeth every day, this is a hair care program that also protects your system from rising pollution, stress, and poor nutrition.
The chlorine in the swimming pool water gets absorbed into the hair changing the ph of the hair, leading to dehydration, dryness, and easy breakage of the hair shaft.
You can take care not to wet the hair, use a swimming cap. Apply coconut oil to your hair before getting into the pool. Rinse your hair with water immediately after you come out of the pool. You can use a very little amount of soft, ph balanced shampoo.
Chicken in the regular diet supports hair growth.
Today chicken became the most loved food in the world. But in order to get ready for consumption, chicken is artificially fattened in 4 to 6 month by injecting growth hormones, steroids to ensure weight gain. Also to prevent the chicken from falling sick, chicken is injected with antibiotics; antifungals are added to chicken feed.
Rather Regular consumption of chicken is not advisable for patients having hair loss.
The waste of the world flows into the water and comes back to us through the fish. Poisonous heavy metals have defected in the fish. You can have fish once or twice a week but think before having the same food more frequently. Include other sources to provide protein turn by turn. Rotate your source of Food. The same food every time creates the same metabolic waste and same by-products or toxins which gradually fly accumulate causing damage to other body systems. If you cannot discontinue the food, reduce the quantity and frequency of consumption.
The waste of the world flows into the water and comes back to us through the fish. Poisonous heavy metals have defected in the fish. You can have fish once or twice a week but think before having the same food more frequently. Include other sources to provide protein turn by turn. Rotate your source of Food. The same food every time creates the same metabolic waste and same by-products or toxins which gradually fly accumulate causing damage to other body systems. If you cannot discontinue the food, reduce the quantity and frequency of consumption.
Red meat contains invisible fat. Meals containing animal fat lead to a rise in levels of testosterone, androgens, and the hormone binding globulin which are not regularly good for health or hair growth. Include other sources to provide protein turn by turn. Rotate your source of food. The same food every time creates the same metabolic waste and same by products or toxins which gradually accumulate causing damage to other body systems. If you cannot discontinue the food, reduce the quantity and frequency of consumption.
keto diet consisting of high fat and low carbohydrates leads to biotin deficiency causing hair loss. Any extremes of diet may be good temporarily for a short period but when continued they deprive the body of all essential elements, creating deficiencies and grounds for ill health. A balanced diet is the best option, after a short spell of extreme diet if it must be done.
Fried foods tend to increase the oiliness of the scalp by increased the activity of the sebum glands. The enzyme 5- alpha reductase which is responsible for the formation of DHT is stored and active in the sebum glands. Thus reducing sebaceous gland activity by avoiding fatty foods helps in better hair growth. High-fat meals also cause a postprandial release of androgens and testosterone promoting more formation of DHT.
All bakery foods are prepared with an equal amount of fat and flour. Each layer of a puff or croissant is smeared with fat to make it crispy. Thus bakery foods need to be avoided to reduce fat intake.
Sugar levels release insulin. High insulin levels release Testosterone from the binding protein leading to easy availability for conversion to DHT.
Preservatives, additives, artificial tastemakers, flavoring agents are chemicals that increase the formation of free radicals and increase the oxidative stress on all rapidly growing cells in the body.
Fructose sugar in fruit juice is bad for health. When making fresh Juice, the fruit skins are peeled off and discarded. The healthy fiber is contained in the fruit skin. All the vitamins nutrients and minerals which you desire to have from the fruit juice are concentrated just under the fruit skin. The pulp contains only fruit sugar and water. Also to make a glass of juice we crush 3-4 fruits. So not only are we having bad fruit sugar we are having it many times more per serving. The best way to eat fruits is to cut a fruit have it with the fruit skin when possible. It gives vitamins, minerals, and healthy fiber with a lower amount of fruit sugar.
Smoking provides a load of toxins and free radicals which interfere with rapidly dividing hair root cells. Smoking causes blockage of the thin blood vessels supplying the hair roots leading to hair loss. You may have several friends who smoke and do not lose hair because they are born with good hair roots. If you have sensitive, weak hair roots and are losing hair, you cannot afford to smoke.
Alcohol reduces the absorption of vitamins, minerals, nutrients from the gut. Alcohol alters the mucosal lining of the gut leading to poor nutrition and hair loss. Alcoholics also tend to eat less and have very poor food selection.
Whenever a body is low on nutrition the first process to be discontinued is making new hair. The body conserves the resources for vital functions and has nothing to lose by not making hair. There is no need to grow hair to remain alive. The heart, lung, liver, the brain can all continue to function without any requirement for hair growth. Crash dieting may or may not give you weight loss but sure give you hair loss.
Vegetarian food does not provide VitB12, iron, a quality protein with essential amino acids, adequate omega 3, zinc, selenium, magnesium, trace elements, which are required for wellness as well as good hair growth. Some correction can be achieved with careful selection of specific foods and some can be met with low dose supplements as in the cyclical nutrition therapy.
Use of nutritional supplements before hair transplant can strengthen the hair roots in the donor area, bring all the telogen follicles into anagen, increase the number of grafts that can be harvested, make the robust grafts easy to extract, easy to implant, achieve good graft take and early growth. Continuing Hair Fact, post transplant prevents shock loss, ensures early growth and maintains good results. It also grows back some of the lost original weak follicles in the aera which adds to the results.
Yes Ketoconazole shampoo has a well defined role and should be prescribed along with the nutritional program. There are three basic requirements for hair growth. Stimulation of the resting follicles with minoxidil, peptides, PRP, Growth factors, LLLT, micro needling etc. Next is providing nutrition & building blocks to create new hair growth after the stimulation and third is scalp hygiene with anti dandruffshampoo twice a week and regular shampoo at other times.
Alcohol can reduce the absorption of the nutrients. Do not have supplements after alcohol. Best to have supplements in the morning as the alcohol is planned in the evening.
8 Months.
Night after dinner.
Kids
14 years.
Skin
Although the hormonal fluctuations that cause acne are most common during the teen years, they can also affect adults. Women may experience hormonal swings during their menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause that result in acne breakouts.
Acne can also be a side effect of certain medications, such as OC.
If you want to protect your skin from pigmentation, you must avoid too much exposure to the sun. If your work requires you to go out in the sun, and avoiding it is not possible, use sunscreens and creams that help protect your skin from UVA and UVB rays. Besides that, you can also wear hats, sunglasses and clothes that protect your skin from the sun.
Besides the above mentioned home remedies, there are various other solutions that can help get rid of pigmentation such as cosmetics, medical procedures, medications, and chemical peels. Cosmetics, for instance, are a temporary solution that can help you hide your dark spots or affected areas, immediately. Other options such as medication and medical treatments may require time, before you get enduring results.