Protect and maintain your crowning glory by following a few simple steps.
Holistic hair care is a concept which considers the needs of your hair from the inside out. Hair is part of the body's integumentary system which consists of your hair, skin and nails. It’s your body’s outer layer and first line of defence against bacteria and injury and helps regulate your body temperature. So healthy hair has many more functions aside from aesthetics.
Nourish Your Hair with Quality Food
Our body, skin and hair need nourishment from the inside and the quality and nutritional value of your food can make all the difference. Our bodies are designed in such a way that when it is lacking some essential nutrition, it will spend the nutrition simply on the essential functions of the body, the integumentary system, which includes hair, is not considered essential when the body is lacking nutrients. This means that beautiful hair is only secondary to our survival, and not essential when the body is dividing nutrients.
If you are serious about looking after your hair’s needs, there are nutrients that you must include in your diet. Look at your weekly meal plan and see if you can incorporate more of the foods which nourish your hair each day.
Hair loves proteins found in meat, lentils, pulses and beans, Iron found in red meat, shellfish, liver, legumes, and spinach. Vitamin C is abundant in fruit and vegetables, such as berries, citrus fruit and broccoli and peppers, and enables the body to make collagen to support our skin, hair and more. Zinc, biotin, B vitamins and selenium can be found in fish, nuts, beans. Essential fatty acids must come from our food, eggs, nuts, shellfish, and oily fish are good sources.
Other nutrients that support the integumentary system hair include apple extract which has a high natural content of vitamin B2 or riboflavin, this contributes to the maintenance of normal skin. Copper contributes to normal hair pigmentation.
Supplements like our New Nordic Hair Volume or New Nordic Hair Gro, help to cater for hair’s nutritional needs. Hair Volume is a tablet which may help maintain a normal voluminous hair growth. The unique bioactive nutrient hair growth factor combination contained in each tablet nourishes and activates the life processes of hair follicle cells. The tablet contains micronutrients and herbal extracts including apple extract, biotin and zinc which contribute to the maintenance of normal hair and copper.
Hair Gro was developed specifically for men to help promote new hair growth and increase hair count, while nourishing the hair follicles. You’ll find both at your local health store or pharmacy.