Essential Vitamins to Prevent and Treat Hair Loss

Is your body lacking the essential vitamins it needs to prevent and treat hair loss? There are many vitamins and nutrients essential to facilitate hair growth.

Vitamin A not only promotes cell growth and regeneration but it also keeps your scalp healthy by producing sebum, which prevents flakiness and breakage. You can find vitamin A in fruits and veggies like peaches and carrots.

Biotin helps hair grow faster and thicker, but most importantly it promotes the growth of new hair follicles. You can find biotin in peas, brown rice, oats and lentils.

Vitamin C

Vitamin C doesn’t only help hair grow, but it also helps strengthening and thickening hair because it helps produce more collagen. Vitamin C can be found in oranges and strawberries among many other fruits and veggies.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D promotes hair growth and reduces hair loss. You can find vitamin D in various dairy products. If you are vegan, you can take vitamin D supplements and have optimum amount of vitamin D in your body.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E enhances the hydration of your hair and scalp preventing hair loss and breakage. You can find vitamin E in leafy greens and nuts.

Iron facilitates the transferring of oxygen through hair-producing cells, so it promotes growth and hair density. You can find Iron in red meats, eggs and spinach.

Niacin is a key component for healthy scalp. It promotes blood circulation nourishing the growth of strong healthy hair.

Zinc helps repair hair follicles and enhances scalp help providing for the perfect environment for hair growth. You can find zinc in oysters and red meat.

If you are concern about the health of your hair, and know that your diet is missing some of these important vitamins and minerals, you should consider taking supplements to fill in the vitamin and mineral gaps in your diet.

Dulce Osuna

Dulce Osuna has over a decade of dedicated and extensive work experience in television, radio broadcasting and digital media. Whether behind or in front of the camera, Dulce has excelled as a producer, journalist, host, anchor, radio personality and YouTuber|Content Creator. She is a content creator on YouTube with around 300K and 300 Million Reproductions/Views and she is the co-founder and co-creator of Holahollywood.com, a bilingual entertainment digital magazine.