Food for Against Hair Loss

All the men are threatened by baldness… And the women are not saved. Can one look after his hair and fight against the capillary losses with blow of fork? For the knowledge, we questioned Dr. Richard Aziza, surgeon plastics technician and esthetics, specialist in the scalp and author of the book “Falls of the hair, which solutions”. According to him, a good hygiene of life is important… but not sufficient.

Doctissimo: Does the food make it possible to keep its hair in good health?

Dr. Aziza: The hair is the reflection in our manner of living! As soon as we are stressed, tired, sick, that has an impact on our hair. It becomes dull, breakable, etc And our food is a factor which has an effect on our hair. To eat balanced is important to bring to the roots all the elements necessary for manufacture of the hair, to preserve this famous flexibility and vitality praised by the advertising executives. The essential food of the hair, they are the proteins rich in sulphur amino-acids (meat, fish….) and the vitamins B and PP for example.

Doctissimo: And are all the shampoos which promise “to nourish” the hair, effective?

Dr. Aziza: What I know, the cosmetics does not cross the cutaneous barrier… But it is not for that the shampoos are useless. Because each hair is associated with a sébacée gland. However the shampoo makes it possible to treat hyper or hyposecretions, which make the hair too fatty or too dry. And they make it possible to give volume, thanks to their electrostatic properties. And contrary to the generally accepted ideas, to often wash the hair does not support the loss of the hair.

 

Doctissimo: On this subject, can a good food limit the fall of the hair?

Dr. Aziza: It is important to eat varied, while taking care to bring to the hair the nutrients which they need. If the deficiencies can threaten the good health of the hair, contrary, excesses can be harmful. Thus, the people who have a too fatty food and those which suffer from a cholesterol excess are threatened of losses of the hair. And paradoxically, certain drugs intended to fight against the cholesterol excess can, from their side effects, also to support the fall…

But it is necessary to be conscious that the loss of the hair is programmed genetically: the food cannot prevent it!