Just like any other part of the body, hair needs essential nutrients to grow. Vitamins, of course are one of the sources of nutrients for your hair and can be a natural hair loss treatment. The problem which can occur is that you do not get enough vitamins to the scalp for a couple of reasons, which can be behind what causes baldness. For some people they may simply be not getting enough vitamins into their body because of poor diet. If this is the case, then to start off with you want to look at your fruit and veg intake and question if you are doing your 5 a day, if you struggle with the 5 a day then try and get good quality supplements instead.

What may also occur to stop your hair in getting a good amount of vitamins to it is that if your body needs these nutrients elsewhere, this being the case then they will go where they are needed and whats left will go to your scalp. So in essence when your body needs to repair somewhere, then it will pull the nutrients to that particular point and not let them spread around the body.

Back to the food aspect, a healthy diet is important for you in so many aspects in your general health and not just hair, but sometimes because of the way food is produced and transported these days, even taking your five a day may not be enough to get you all your vitamins that you need, this can mean even less nutrients for your hair. Also there are two things that are regularly put in our food which are not good for us in excessive amounts anyway, and can affect the hair and they are sugar and salt, but there are vitamins that can combat these too, and we’ll take a look at them now.

The first vitamin to get into your diet is A which is Retinol. Dosage should be between 10,000 to 25000 IU’s, and the amount varies depending on your size i.e. the bigger you are the more you take.

After vitamin A you need to then look at the vitamin B group. Vitamin B is thought too be very beneficial against hair loss and can easily be found in supplement form. One thing to bear in mind if you supplement with vitamin B is that your body will only use what it needs and excrete what it does not so you may find your urine going an interesting shade of yellow.

Next on the list is vitamin C. You are probably looking to take 3 to 4000mg of this vitamin for best results. Be careful not to overdo it on vitamin C though as taking too much can lead to an upset stomach.

Another vitamin to add to the list is vitamin E. This is another vitamin that you need to adjust the dosage to you size. You should have somewhere between 400 and 800 mg but try not to exceed 800mg. For those that struggle digesting fats vitamin E is also available in soluble form.

Finally there is vitamin H (which is really a vitamin B). This vitamin is rumored to be essential for slowing hair loss. If you are lacking in this vitamin, then on the whole it will show up with you having thinning hair. It works best when taken with the other B vitamins and you need to be having around 300mg.

There you go then, some of the main vitamins that help to how to prevent hair loss, however before you start taking supplements you may want to check with your physician first, just to make sure you are not going to have any adverse side effects and also they will be able to help advise you on dosage levels.