Top 14 Super Foods for Healthy Hair

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**A healthy diet for our body is critical for optimal health and performance. ** Our hair goes through a lot of chemical these days:  different types of shampoo, colorings,  and dyes.

What we put into our mouths also plays a huge role in how strong and beautiful our hair is going to be.   Hair is a fast growing tissue, therefore it make demands on your body.   Proper food is needed for hair growth.

For Strong healthy hair, you need the following Nutrients.

Fatty Acids: The omega-3 fatty acids and Oleic acid (Omega 9) play a huge role in whether or not you have nourished hair. You can also up your intake of omega-3’s by eating walnuts, canola oil, salmon, and soy products.

Protein: Good hair nutrition begins with getting enough protein, which is the building block of your hair. Hair follicles can have low energy levels just like we do. Therefore, it‘s very important that you eat a high protein meal at the start of each day.
Vitamin B: The B Vitamin family is the most important vitamin to ensure that you have thick full hair as they stimulate hair growth. 

Vitamin B12 is known as Cobalamin.  People with a Vitamin B12 deficiency will lose their hair.

Vitamin B6 and vitamin B7 (also known as “biotin”) is an essential part of the hair production and hair growth process. It also plays a major role in the formation of healthy skin and nails. If your hair is too oily you may lack in B Vitamins. B Vitamin rich foods include whole grains, nuts, seeds, dairy products, eggs,  legumes and green, leafy vegetables. Try to avoid oily foods.

Vitamin C: These two vitamins are important nutrients when it comes to having strong, glossy hair.

Vitamin E:  Vitamin helps increase our oxygen uptake, which again helps improve the amount of blood that is circulates to our scalp.  All of these vitamins, when taken regularly will ensure that the vitamins, minerals, and the amino acids that are necessary to create healthy keratin (a protein that is involved in creating healthy hair) are present and working with one another to help give you a healthy full  hair.

Iron is required for healthy strong hair.  When iron is combined with other vitamins, this will help strengthen the strands of your hair and give you more volume.

Minerals: Zinc, Silica Sulfur and Germanium are necessary for hair strength. If these minerals are lacking, you hair shafts become weak resulting in massive hair loss.

Silica particularly is a trace mineral that is vital for hair strength and hair growth. Silica rich foods are rice, oats, strawberry, onion, cabbage, cucumber, cauliflower and green leafy vegetables

When it comes to healthy hair, you need to have a well balanced diet. There are some foods you should add to your diet to have shiny, bouncy and voluminous hair.

Find out what the top 14 superfoods are to help you build up strong healthy hair.