It is estimated that 25 million women in the US alone suffer from thinning hair with much hair loss due to a vitamin deficiency. However, once you know the right combination of vitamins, minerals and herbs you can start to regain your lost hair.

With hair loss, women vitamin deficiency levels tend to be low, especially the vital B group. The problem today is that the nutritional value of our food is just one sixth of what it was fifty years ago, and why experts recommend a daily natural supplement to balance this.

Strong, healthy hair begins with the proper nutritional building blocks and vitamin B6 is essential for boosting circulation, helping follicle growth and maintaining healthy hair.

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Vitamins are found in foods and are required for biochemical reactions to occur within the body.  There are 13 different vitamins – four that are fat-soluble (A, D, E and K) and are stored for months in the body; and nine which are water-soluble vitamins (C, and the B-complex vitamins B1, B2, B6, B12) which can be stored for a few weeks in the body.

Keeping yourself healthy requires you have a good balance between foods you eat and ensuring you get the right amount of vitamins your body requires, and exercise.  While you can obtain vitamins from supplements, the best source of nutrition comes from the foods you eat.  The longer your food is off the tree it grows on or out of the ground and sitting in the grocery store – the more the nutritional value of the food decreases.  Fresh foods contain the highest amounts of vitamins and nutrients.

Food scientists have discovered that food simply doesn’t have the nutrients it contained 50 years ago because it travels further and sits on store shelves longer; and also how we prepare it.  Steaming broccoli for as little as one and a half minutes will remove all of the nutrients.

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Iron deficiency, affecting over 2 billion people worldwide, is the only nutrient deficiency which is significantly present in both developing as well as developed nations. The widespread manifestation of this health disorder has been raising concerns over the availability of a reliable remedy for the treatment of iron deficiency/anaemia.

One such time-tested remedy for iron deficiency introduced by the Ayurveda is AnemiCare which is a distinctive blend of iron supplements, known for replenishing Iron, Calcium and Vitamin C deficiencies. This health supplement supplies the blood with all essential nutrients and hence ascertains optimum levels of strength and energy.

Iron is an essential mineral and a vital component of the human body.

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