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Vitamins For Thinning Hair
Introduction to vitamins for healthy hair growth
We all are aware that vitamins and minerals are components of our food needed for our growth, reproduction, and maintaining good general health, but vitamins themselves are only required in small amounts in our diet compared with fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
Insufficient quantities of an individual vitamin or mineral can lead to deficiency diseases and over consumption of some vitamins or minerals can be toxic to an individual’s system. However, while vitamins and minerals are important for healthy hair growth, with the possible exception of iron, a deficiency in vitamins or minerals resulting in hair loss is fairly
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rare
with the average North American or Western European diet.
Of course, Vegans and others living on a restricted diet could be at more of a risk of having a deficiency in one or more vitamins and minerals if they fail to plan their diets and ensure their sources are wide enough to enable sufficient intake of all the relevant vitamins and nutrients.
Some vitamins, such as vitamin B12, are almost exclusively found in meat and dairy products, so in the absence of meat intake a vegetarian inclined individual must compensate either by eating vitamin B12 rich plant foods or by taking supplements. Some evidence exists that vegetarians tend to have relatively lower levels of essential antioxidant trace elements such as Zinc, Copper, and especially Selenium, in their blood.
In terms of healthy hair growth, the most important vitamins and minerals are:
* Iron (and the blood iron carrier ferritin)
* Zinc
* Copper
* Selenium
* Biotin (vitamin H)
* Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
* Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
Other vitamins and minerals like silica are also useful, but they are secondary to the primary nutrients above.
In short, it is pretty unlikely you have a vitamin or mineral deficiency, but many people still believe that vitamin and mineral supplements can significantly help hair growth.
Hair and saliva can be tested for vitamin and mineral content, but the results are not very accurate. Nutrients in hair can be oxidized by exposure to sunlight or may interact with chemicals in shampoo or pollution in the air. Over time the nutrient content of hair may change as a result of these chemical reactions. Saliva is a somewhat better sample source for testing, but here too nutrient content can vary over a short space of time depending on food and liquid intake.
You should also be aware that the hair and saliva testing labs usually have a commercial incentive to find “deficiencies” in your sample 
They cannot sell you supplements if you have no deficiencies!
If you want to have a look, check out Vitamins and Minerals.