Lifestyle Changes to Improve Hair Health

Sometimes you can get lucky and have a beautiful head of hair without much effort. However, for others, keeping your hair in top condition isn’t that easy.

There are routine things you should consider doing to keep your hair in its best condition, like making some lifestyle changes and caring for your hair as best you can. Let’s look at what can be done.

Hair Care Tips

Like the rest of your body, your hair must get some essential vitamins and nutrients to remain strong and healthy. That’s why maintaining the right diet is crucial. A poor diet could lead to nutrient deficiency and result in worse hair overall; eating plenty of fruit and vegetables provides a lot of what you need.

If you need help meeting the daily requirements of vitamins your hair needs, Sons offer a Hair Growth Complex which contains a blend of nine ingredients to help your hair thrive, including some of the most important vitamins like Magnesium, Zinc and Biotin. For instance, Biotin is crucial to keratin production – keratin being what your hair and nails are made of.

If you drink alcohol to excess or smoke, you should think about cutting down for the sake of your hair health. Your body will be in a worse condition because of this and your hair could pay the price by becoming thinner, along with other health problems.

You need to get plenty of exercise too to make sure that your body is functioning as it should be and enough blood is being sent to your scalp. Exercise can help you with immunity as well so you stay healthy – remember, an unhealthy body can be detrimental to your hair.

When it comes to treating your hair specifically, avoid using styling products containing harsh chemicals that can damage your hair. Using excessive hair gel or spray can clog the hair follicles and make healthy growth of strong strands less likely. So you don’t irritate your scalp and it stays in good condition, don’t dry your hair aggressively with a towel and limit how often you use a hot hair dryer and don’t hold it too close to your scalp to prevent damaging hair.

Treatment Options for Thinning Hair

While all the aforementioned lifestyle changes can contribute towards better hair, if you are genetically predisposed to androgenetic alopecia (male pattern baldness), excellent haircare will not protect your hairline against the natural thinning that will occur. However, there are treatments available which have been clinically-proven to be effective in halting, or even reversing, further hair loss.

Minoxidil is available as both an oral capsule and a topical solution, which works to combat hair loss by promoting blood flow to the scalp. This supplies hair follicles with vital oxygen and nutrients required for growth and strength, which can lead to thicker, healthier hair growth after 3-6 months of daily use. Finasteride protects the scalp against the damaging effects of DHT, the hormone behind male pattern baldness. It inhibits the enzyme 5α-Reductase, which converts testosterone into DHT. By reducing DHT levels, Finasteride has been shown in studies to be effective at preventing or slowing hair loss. When used together, studies have demonstrated them to be effective in 94% of men.

If you’re ready to tackle your hair loss, take our free consultation for treatment recommendations.

All of our blog articles are reviewed for medical accuracy by our Medical Director before publication.

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