5 Foods For Healthy Hair

At the start of any New Year, it is common to set new wellness and lifestyle goals, especially when it comes to nutrition and healthy eating. Of course, revamping one's eating habits does not just transform our physical bodies and have an impact on our emotional health, healthy eating also provides numerous benefits for our beauty aesthetic. One area where this is especially key is the health of our hair. The hair on our is essentially dried protein, and once it grows out of our scalp, it has no way to fortify itself and repair itself internally the way that our skin does. For this reason, the foods we eat have a n especially great impact on how are hair looks, feels, grows, and responds to styling techniques and products. Some wonderful foods to incorporate into your diet to help support your luscious locks are-

Fish and Other Sources of Omegas: Since our hair is literally a form of protein, the amount of protein we eat directly affects both the growth and the quality of the look and feel our hair. When you don’t get enough protein, hair growth can actually cease altogether. Fish is a particularly rich source of lean protein but is also rich in oil and omega-3 fatty acids, especially in the case of salmon. Omega-3 fatty acids only help with making the hair look fuller but also lend a ton of shine. If you do not care for seafood or follow a plant-based diet, lentils, cashews, and all varieties of nuts are also a very hair-loving source of protein, and for the Omega-3’s, hemp hearts and chia seeds are both excellent sources.

Sweet Potatoes: Sweet potatoes are abundant in beta carotene. The body converts beta carotene into Vitamin A, which is a key nutrient in supporting stronger hair shafts that are more breakage resistant. Ample amounts of Vitamin A also help the scalp to produce sufficient amounts of oil which will help the hair to be soft and moisturized and not depend so much on heavy conditioners externally, which can sometimes weigh the hair down or make it look greasy.

Broccoli: Broccoli is one of the most commonly thought of and enjoyed health foods everywhere, but it is also a particularly good source of sulfur. Sulfur is one of the key components of keratin (the specific protein from which our hair is largely made) and is crucial for helping make and preserve the elasticity of our hair and helping it hold its shape, texture, and body. Sulfur has also been shown to help extend the active growing period of hair before that growth will naturally become stagnant before shedding.

Bell Peppers: Regardless of which color you choose, bell peppers are excellent sources of Vitamin C. Vitamin C is not only a collagen producer, which encourages the formation of new and healthy hair and skin but it is also helps to carry oxygen to the scalp to facilitate more rapid hair growth and to encourage more lubrication of the scalp internally and helping calm conditions like dandruff and dry scalp.

Avocados: Yes, mashing up a few of these to make your own hair mask is a great deep-conditioning treatment for the hair, but eating avocados provides you hair with much more than just moisture. Avocados are rich in Vitamins A, D, and the E, all of which help make the hair soft, shiny, and thick-feeling. They are also a great way to incorporate many trace minerals essential to health but difficult to find such as copper, zinc, and magnesium that see to everything from stronger and more malleable hair for greater styling capabilities to richer-looking, shinier color.

While there is no magical wonder food that will permanently solve every beauty woe we ever encounter, the hair on our heads especially appreciates it when we eat heartily, healthily, and well. So start trying to incorporate some of these delicious foods into your diet and see to what lustrous lengths your hair will take you.