Good diet linked to hair-loss prevention

[Johnka]

This webcast at Science Daily showed how genetics are not the only thing that leads to hair loss.

We can also assure a healthy head of hair into old age with our diet. The key variables are:

Sufficient protein

A hair-health diet is really going to include making sure that someone's getting enough protein, because if you've ever burned some hair, you smell it and you know that it's made out of protein, mostly sulfur-containing amino acids

Omega-3 fatty acids

There are some nutrients like essential fatty acids that play a role in skin, hair and nails and other things as well. These essential fatty acids, like omega-3 fatty acids, are not the type of fatty acids that people are eating a lot of, because the sources of them basically include fish, like salmon and mackerel (not everybody eats that) or flax seed.

B12, folic acid, zinc, magnesium

B12 and folic acid for the cell renewal to grow hair. Things like zinc, a classic deficiency, might also cause hair loss. Magnesium is deficient in 60% of the American population. Zinc can also be one of the things that are quite deficient and probably more important for men than women, although I think both should make sure that they're taking enough.

So, a high-protein diet with plenty of veggies and fruit, fish and flax, a good multivitamin, and perhaps some ZMA at night will ensure that we have a John Kerry 'do.