GRAY HAIR

Gray hair grows in many people once they reach a certain age. It can however make you look older than you really are.

Note- hair can tell us a lot about nutrition, to the extent that you can know what a person generally ate and drank even hundreds of years after their death. Using advanced technology, forensic doctors utilize hair analysis to help discover if a person died from poisoning.

Symptoms          

Gray hair on the body or head that begins to show little by little as a person ages.

Causes

Hair is made mostly of proteins. Within these proteins there is a substance that is responsible for the different colors of hair.

Dark hair has more melanin than lightly colored hair. With age and time the amount of melanin present in hair diminishes, giving way to the appearance of grey hair. When there is no melanin, the hair becomes white.

Suggested treatment

Some substances exist that, when combined with the protein in the hair, can produce the same results that melanin produce. (according to literature of the combe laboratories international Ltd).

However, the body can slow the effects of hair loss and graying if it has adequate nutrients. These nutrients can be absorbed directly by the hair, or through taking nutritional supplements.

It is recommended that you take a multivitamin like bee pollen in addition to taking multi-minerals and proteins.

The nutrients that your hair requires to grow are:

Calcium pantothenate, pantothenic acid or vitamin B-5 – these element helps the hair to assimilate and utilize copper.

Copper: lack of copper produces brittle, dry hair.

Inositol & choline: these elements help in hair growth according to nutritionist Adele Davis

Vitamin B-12: helps in hair growth.

PABA: para –aminobenzoic acid helps to maintain color and keep the hair soft.

Iodine: helps to keep the hair from falling out.

Iron & manganese: helps hair growth and helps keep hair well- nourished through good blood circulation in the body.

Nacin: nicotinic acid helps in the circulation of blood.

Proteins and amino acid: hair is made up of 98% protein however if the vitamins and minerals mentioned are not presen, the body cannot take advantages of these proteins.

Zinc: necessary to keep the hair strong.

Cysteine and glycine: the latter is contained in aloe in a proportion of 28.0 PPM.

It is recommended to take brewer’s yeast and aloe juice keep hair looking healthy and natural. Also massage a little aloe gel mixed with water into the hair.

To darken grey hair:

Preparation: make a sage (chia) mixture in the following manner:

Put 2 tablespoons of sage in ½ liter of boiling water, letting the mixture cool, then drain through a colander. Daily, rinse thismix through the the hair and little by little the hair will darken.it is helpfulful if you add a little rosemary to the sage.

To add shine to light hair:

To make white or blonde hair shine, make a similar mixture to the one above,using the petals of chamomile flowers or holly hock in place of the sage.

It is recommended that after washing your hair with shampoo and drying it, to massage in aloe gel which will revitalize and nourish the hair as well as shape it.

See baldness for nutrient your hair needs.

Supplements

Bee pollen

Multi – mineral

Aloe gelatin

Fo-Ti

Nutritional shakes

Aloe juice gel

Amino acids and proteins

Supplement for children

Multi vitamins

Multi minerals.