4 Minerals You Need For Healthy Hair

People often write me asking about different vitamins and minerals that they can consume to avoid hair loss troubles. So I decided to create this quick list of nutrients that should help you prevent hair loss in the future. Of course, I can’t guarantee that this will work but, this is a very good start for optimal health and healthy hair.

1. Trace Mineral Silica

Silica is one of the main minerals that you need when it comes to healthy hair growth and getting the nutrients you need for hair loss. Most American diets are deficient in this one mineral. Supplementing your diet with silica alone will probably help you more than any other vitamin or mineral.

It’s very difficult to get the silica you need because many vitamin supplements aren’t absorbable and cooking often removes the silica from the food you eat. Good sources of silica are millet, whole wheat, oats and barley.

2. Iodine

You must have iodine for healthy hair. Iodine is extremely important when it comes to stopping hair loss but, you need a certain type of iodine for preventing hair loss. Your generic table salt won’t cut it as a source of iodine. That type of iodine could easily cause you to overdose. Getting too much iodine is actually a cause of hair loss.

So stay away from iodized salt and and start getting your iodine from food sources. These include kelp, yogurt (low fat), cow’s milk, boiled eggs, strawberries and Mozzarella cheese.

So you should avoid iodized salt and start getting your iodine from kelp, yogurt, strawberries, Cow’s milk, and boiled eggs.

3. Zinc

You need zinc for healthy hair growth but, getting too much zinc actually blocks exertion of other minerals. So it’s best to get your zinc from food sources like lima beans, chickpeas, raw cashews, and almonds.
Zinc helps to keep your scalp oily and it helps you to avoid dandruff.

4. Iron

Make sure you get all of your iron from food sources, don’t bother with taking iron supplements. Lean red meat, oysters, tuna, dried beans, Brazil nuts, and asparagus are good sources of iron.

{ 12 comments… read them below or add one }

janie jenkins July 21, 2010 at 2:22 am

My hair is so weak it literally falls out on the pillow if I shift my head to much at night, Generally, in the morning the pillow has a lot of hair left on it. Will an Idoine and Zinc supplements help?

shahsi kothiyal October 6, 2010 at 12:47 pm

Kindly help me as m faceng Hair loss ……
Pls do suggest me regardng this…….

thnk u vry much
with Regard

Paula November 11, 2010 at 3:35 pm

To Janie – try a silk or slippery pillow case. That should help quite a bit if you are currently using cotton or a tough fabric that can ‘grab’ the hair.

Carol Preece November 17, 2010 at 6:30 am

Please help me wth my hair loss. I need to kmow how to help myself in what to take.
Thank you very much

javid ahnad rather November 21, 2010 at 4:12 pm

my hair was lost four years plese give me suggestion to preveent it.

heena February 16, 2011 at 7:52 pm

im lossing my hair help me to sort it out?

zennis March 4, 2011 at 1:56 pm

m facing hair loss & also my hair is very dull m using hair colour since 6 years plz help me n suggest me to grow my hair healthy n strong

JC March 30, 2011 at 6:00 am

I tried NISIM shampoo for a year. It helped stop hair loss. Then I switched to Your Crown and Glory and my hair is growing back like mad. I also take Beta-Sitosterol and Nioxin for supplements. I do not own or work for any companies that sell this stuff, it just works for me. I buy it all from Amazon except for the Crown and Glory, which I get from a local health store. It is available on Amazon as well.

Reena April 4, 2011 at 4:54 am

m sufferin from hair los…please suggest me a remedy

usha rani May 18, 2011 at 11:11 am

i was totally upset because of my hairloss i donot know a solution to manage please help me immediately please

usha rani May 18, 2011 at 11:17 am

please help me for my hairloss problem give me a immediate treatment for new hair growth pls

sasmita samal May 20, 2011 at 7:01 pm

m suffering from heavy loss.please suggest me..

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