Boost your roots
THE nutrients you consume help feed the follicle from which each and every hair grows. And yet in women there are many reasons why hair can start to thin and fall. Some are self-inflicted (hair extensions, chemical treatments, overstyling) but others are natural.
Pregnancy
Hormones halt natural daily hair shedding, allowing the body to put its energies into the baby. Consequently, along with the extra female hormone oestrogen in the body, hair looks thicker.
But three to six months after the birth, as hormones return to normal, the extra hair falls out. Many mothers fear their hair is seriously thinning yet it is just returning to normal – although that can take a year.
Menopause
Around 40 per cent of women experience hair loss during and after menopause as a result of fluctuating hormone levels. During menopause, levels of oestrogen fall, resulting in male hormones (androgen) becoming more prominent, causing hair follicles to thin and eventually fall out.
Diet
A healthy diet is vital for nourishing hair from within but the body treats hair as non-essential and prioritises vital organs when nutrients are scarce.
Certain vitamins, minerals and proteins such as biotin and zinc enter hair follicles through the bloodstream and they need to be replenished.
Stress
When we’re stressed, the body devotes its energies towards repairing vital body structures, so hair production is not a priority.
There’s up to a six-month gap between an event (like a relationship breakdown) and hair loss onset. It can be three months before hair grows healthily again. In extreme stress, the adrenal glands go into overdrive, producing extra testosterone and dihydrotesterone which, without enough oestrogen to counterbalance it, means that the hair suffers.
HAIR loss, of course, causes even more stress making the problem worse. Whether natural or due to hair treatments, what they all have in common is the need for a solution. The answer is Viviscal, a long-time backstage secret of models and celebs, a supplement taken in tablet form.
Voted the UK’s Best Hair Supplement 2016 by Harper’s Bazaar, Viviscal is scientifically formulated with all the important nutrients needed for hair.
Biotin (known for its hair strengthening benefits) and zinc (improves the health, appearance and body of hair) help maintain normal healthy hair growth from within.
Viviscal (used by models to offset intense, regular stylings during the catwalk season) also contains AminoMar C, a marine-based complex developed in Scandinavia in the 1980s by a professor who discovered that the healthy hair and skin of the Inuits, who inhabit the Arctic regions, was a result of their fish and protein-rich diet. By isolating key ingredient molecules he created what we now call AminoMar C.
After 25 years, Viviscal is officially the UK’s most clinically researched hair growth supplement, backed by nine published clinical trials conducted by leading dermatologists and trichologists worldwide.
Viviscal trials consistently demonstrate significant results with respect to a reduction in hair shedding and an increase in hair diameter along with an improvement in scalp coverage by thick, healthy hairs.
INFORMATION: Viviscal is available from Boots, Holland & Barrett and Marks & Spencer, £49.95 for a month’s supply.