Check out how to Increase the growth of your hair with Healthy Juicing
Hair is in a funky predicament when it comes to your diet. It has to wait in line behind your vital organs to get whatever nutrients are left over from the foods you eat. Therefore, you may be eating vitamins and minerals (micronutrients) but that doesn’t mean that there’s an optimal amount left over for your hair to be as healthy as possible. Juicing fruits and vegetables can help you increase the micronutrients in your diet to improve your hair’s health.
Healthy hair is less likely to break and suffer from damage than unhealthy hair. Still, that doesn’t mean that juicing will necessarily make your hair grow faster. What it can do is make it less likely to break thus helping you to retain the hair you grow. Breakage rate (not growth rate) is usually the culprit when your hair doesn’t seem to be growing.
Below are some tips to help you get the best results when you start juicing for improved hair growth and health:
Tip #1- Juicing for Hair Growth & Health: Juice Often!
Common Mistake = Occasional Juicing
Juice at least once a day to ensure that you’re giving your hair the nutrients it needs to grow strong, long and healthy. Invest in a quality juicer that can be used daily and cleaned easily.
If you don’t want to whip out the juicer each day, make a large batch and store in the refrigerator to drink the next day.
Also, whenever possible juice with the skin on and use the leftover pulp in other dishes such as soups, stews and casseroles.
Tip #2- Juicing for Hair Growth & Health: Juice for Color (Variety)
Common Mistake = Juicing the same fruits/vegetables over and over.
Choose fruits and vegetables of all colors to ensure you get a variety of micronutrients. At each grocery store visit buy at least one fruit or vegetable that’s:
-Green & Leafy Greens: kale, baby spinach, wheat grass, green apples, pears, honeydew melons, kiwi
-White: bananas, ginger root, cabbage
-Purple or blue: purple carrots, blueberries, purple cabbage, purple lettuces
-Red: apples, cranberries, pomegranate, red peppers, beets, strawberries
-Orange: carrots, oranges, canteloupe
-Yellow: grapefruit, lemon, yellow peppers, pineapples
Foods of similar color tend to have similar nutritional profiles no matter if they’re fruits or vegetables. For example, orange foods tend to be high in beta carotene while leafy greens tend to be rich in iron and B-complex vitamins. Purple and blue foods are rich in plant compounds like anthocyanins while white foods like bananas contain potassium and vitamin A- used by the scalp to produce natural protective oils for the hair.
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According to renowned trichologist Philip Kingsley, if you plan to juice for a couple of weeks, you should also plan to see your hair fall out about two to three months later.
‘I’ve seen it many, many times,’ he says. ‘Women come to see me with what appears to be unexplained hair loss, and then, when you trace it back, it turns out that they were on some extreme juice fast a few months before.
‘It’s quite simple, if your body isn’t getting the nutrition it needs, it powers down the processes that it considers as being not essential to life, and one of those is hair production.’
But it’s not just your hair that will suffer.
‘Juicing for anything longer than a couple of days will have a profound effect on your skin,’ says cosmetic dermatologist Dr Sam Bunting. ‘Not only might you find that your skin dries out as you’re not getting any of the essential fatty acids it needs, but if you’ve already got a tendency to dry skin anyway, you may find that you start to develop patches of eczema as the barrier function is compromised.’
And there are long-term issues too.
‘Low-calorie diets like this cause the body’s insulin levels to spike and crash which initially causes break-outs, but over time, this insulin cycle alters the structures of collagen and elastin in the body, making them stiffer, and causing skin to look prematurely old.’
Damage to collagen will also affect your teeth, as it’s collagen fibres that hold them in place. But, even if you manage to retain your gnashers, juice diets are seriously bad news for them, as Dr Uchenna Okoye of London Smiling points out.
‘Juice from vegetables and especially from fruits, which tend to have a higher acid content, can damage the enamel of your teeth in exactly the same way that a fizzy drink would. We consider the acids in fruit and vegetables to be “good” but that’s only in the context of eating the whole thing, not when you’re drinking a super-concentrated juice.’
And the same holds true for the sugars in your juice.
‘Fructose is a natural sugar, but to the body it’s still just a sugar, so too much of it will cause cavities as the bacteria in the mouth feed on it.’
If you are going to drink juices, even just as part of a balanced diet, Dr Okoye recommends always using a straw and never ever brushing your teeth straight after drinking as the sugar and acid softens the enamel of the teeth so you could actually be doing more damage. Ideally she suggests brushing teeth before drinking a juice, and using a fluoride toothpaste which will strengthen the teeth.
So, a lack of energy, a messed-up digestive system, prematurely aged skin, rotting teeth and hair loss — hardly the healthy, cleansed body that juice devotees are aiming for, is it?
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