Gentler Hair Health Options

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Today’s 30-Second Summary

If you don’t have time to read the whole email today, here are some key takeaways:

• Hair thinning and/or getting more brittle is a common thing with age. However, it doesn’t have to be so!

  • While previously we’ve looked and medicinal and/or hormonal treatments, today’s main feature looks at less “heavy guns” options that still work

  • From the science of topical caffeine performing equally to minoxidil, to why you might want to invest in a silk pillowcase, we cover quite a few options today. Check them out!

• As we age, our collagen levels tend to get depleted more easily. Collagen is important not just for youthful good looks, but also for the health of bones and joints

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Hair, Gently

We have previously talked about the medicinal options for combatting the thinning hair that comes with age especially for men, but also for a lot of women. You can read about those medicinal options here:

Hair-Loss Remedies, By Science

We also did a whole supplement spotlight research review for saw palmetto! You can read about how that might help you keep your hair present and correct, here:

One Man’s Saw Palmetto Is Another Woman’s Serenoa Repens

Today we’re going to talk options that are less “heavy guns”, and/but still very useful.

Supplementation

First, the obvious. Taking vitamins and minerals, especially biotin, can help a lot. This writer takes 10,000µg (that’s micrograms, not milligrams!) biotin gummies, similar to this example product on Amazon (except mine also has other vitamins and minerals in, but the exact product doesn’t seem to be available on Amazon).

When thinking “what vitamins and minerals help hair?”, honestly, it’s most of them. So, focus on the ones that count for the most (usually: biotin and zinc), and then cover your bases for the rest with good diet and additional supplementation if you wish.

Caffeine (topical)

It may feel silly, giving one’s hair a stimulant, but topical caffeine application really does work to stimulate hair growth. And not “just a little help”, either:

(AGA = Androgenic Alopecia)

Read more: Comparing Current Therapeutic Modalities of Androgenic Alopecia: A Literature Review of Clinical Trials

Argan oil

As with coconut oil, argan oil is great on hair. It won’t do a thing to improve hair growth or decrease hair shedding, but it will help you hair stay moisturized and thus reduce breakage—thus, may not be relevant for everyone, but for those of us with hair long enough to brush, it’s important.

Bonus: get an argan oil based hair serum that also contains keratin (the protein used to make hair), as this helps strengthen the hair too.

Here’s an example product on Amazon 🙂 

Silk pillowcases

Or a silk hair bonnet to sleep in! They both do the same thing, which is prevent damaging the hair in one’s sleep by reducing the friction that it may have when moving/turning against the pillow in one’s sleep.

• Pros of the bonnet: if you have lots of hair and a partner in bed with you, your hair need not be in their face, and you also won’t get it caught under you or them.

• Pros of the pillowcase: you don’t have to wear a bonnet

Both are also used widely by people without hair loss issues, but with easily damaged and/or tangled hair—Black people especially with 3C or tighter curls in particular often benefit from this. Other people whose hair is curly and/or gray also stand to gain a lot.

Here are Amazon example products of a silk pillowcase (it’s expensive, but worth it) and a silk bonnet, respectively 😎

Want to read more?

You might like this article:

From straight to curly, thick to thin: here’s how hormones and chemotherapy can change your hair

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The Liver Cure: Natural Solutions for Liver Health to Target Symptoms of Fatty Liver Disease, Autoimmune Diseases, Diabetes, Inflammation, Stress & Fatigue, Skin Conditions, and Many More – by Dr. Russell Blaylock

We’ve written before about How To Unfatty A Fatty Liver, but there’s a lot more that can be said in a book that we couldn’t fit into our article.

In this book, Dr. Blaylock looks at the causes and symptoms of liver disease, the mechanisms behind such, and how we can adjust our dietary habits (and other things) to do better for ourselves.

While the book’s primary focus is on diet, he does also look at medications (especially: those that hinder liver health, which are many, including simple/common stuff like Tylenol and similar), and the effects of different lifestyle choices, including ones that aren’t diet-related.

Because most people’s knowledge of liver disease starts and ends at “don’t drink yourself to death”, this book is an important tome of knowledge for actually keeping this critical organ in good order—especially since symptoms of liver disease can initially be subtle, and slow to show, often escaping notice until it’s already far, far worse than it could have been.

Many people find out by experiencing liver failure.

The writing style is… A little repetitive for this reviewer’s preference, but it does make sure that you won’t miss things. Also, when it comes to supplements, he repeatedly recommends a particular company, and it’s not clear whether he has a financial interest there. But the actual medical information is good and important and comprehensive.

Bottom line: if you’d like to keep your liver in good health, this is a book that will help you to do just that.

Click here to check out The Liver Cure, and keep yours working well!

Wishing you a wonderfully restorative weekend,

The 10almonds Team