Easy Steps to Promoting Healthy Hair

How your hair looks and feels is a pretty good indicator of your general state of health.
If you have periodic hair loss, don’t run for cover—the average person loses between 50 and 100 hairs a day. If you experience a sudden bout of hair loss, or are losing significantly more than usual over an extended period of time, consult your doctor or hair specialist, a trichologist.
A number of factors come into play when it comes to hair loss or thinning hair—diet, certain kinds of medication, mineral and hormonal imbalances or deficiencies, auto-immune diseases, genetics and, last but certainly not least, stress.
Your hair also changes along with your body’s hormonal fluctuations—ever notice how your locks are fuller at certain times of the month and thinner at others?
If you want to boost hair growth and encourage a healthy head of hair, there are a few simple things you can do, starting with improving your diet and boosting your exercise regimen.

• Favor foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids—fish contains a lot of these, and salmon, sardines, herring and mackerel are good sources. Flax seeds and walnuts are also chock-full of omega-3s.
• Exercise regularly—your blood flow improves as cells receive more oxygen, which in turn helps build healthy hair follicles. Exercise also helps alleviate stress, which has a knock-on effect on your hair.
• Avoid wearing a tight bun, braid or ponytail on a regular basis. This can pull out your hair and cause breakage; over the long term it can develop into full-blown hair loss.
• Apply a minimal amount of styling products and don’t have your hair colored more than once every six weeks.
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