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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If you’ve been reading up on the latest health news recently, you’ve probably already gotten your vitamin D levels checked, and if you haven’t, I suggest you do it asap. It has recently come to global attention that there is an epidemic of inadequate and deficient vitamin D levels in much of the world’s population, children in particular.

We have known for a long time that Vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and muscles and now new research has pointed to its importance in the prevention of chronic diseases, as well. Most recently, research out of the Mayo Clinic is showing a correlation between inadequate vitamin D levels and the amount of narcotic medication taken by patients who have chronic pain. According to the CDC, chronic pain is the leading cause of disability in the United States and patients often end up taking strong medication such as morphine, fentanyl or oxycodone.

The Mayo Clinic study found that patients who required narcotic pain medication, and who also had inadequate levels of vitamin D, were taking much higher doses of pain medication – nearly twice as much – as those who had adequate levels. These patients self-reported worse physical functioning and worse overall health perception. Read the rest of this entry »