Hair loss is becoming a major concern in our fast paced lifestyle, especially in professions where keeping your looks in order is important. But profession or not, who doesn’t want a head full of great hair! Hair loss can be caused by a variety of reasons! Sometimes it’s just due to heredity or genetic factors. Other reasons maybe stress, an unhealthy diet or an unhealthy lifestyle, smoking and drinking, or excessive use of hair styling products. Hair loss can also be a symptom of some grave underlying diseases such as hypothyroidism, medications, or improper hormone functioning, obesity or vitamin deficiencies. Keep reading to know what you can do to stop hair loss.
Whenever the body is showing signs of dis-ease, in this case an increase in hair fall, the first place to look is always our diet. An important vitamin which has a connection with healthy hair is biotin, or B7, a member of the B vitamin family.
What should you know about Biotin?
Biotin is also known as vitamin H. it is responsible for healthy hair and nails. It regulates your blood sugar as it works directly with the conversion of carbohydrates and fats to glucose.
Biotin is great for overall health of the body and during weight loss periods too as an aid to weight loss. Since it helps with the conversion of what we eat to biochemical energy, it ensures that all parts of your body gets a part of the nutrition. So your hair follicles get adequate nutrition and the cortex of your hair is strengthened.
Biotin has been known to arrest hair fall quite quickly, and with prolonged use has also stimulated the growth of new hair follicles.