Can Prenatal Vitamins Really Make Your Hair Grow Quicker?
Posted by Maria on July 11, 2009 · 2 Comments
Can Prenatal Vitamins Really Make Your Hair Grow Quicker?
Most women who have been pregnant have noticed that their hair grows quicker, thicker, and healthier when they are with child. Many have credited this growth with the vitamin supplements in prenatal vitamins. This is an old wives tale. It is actually the increase in estrogen that allows a woman’s hair to grow faster during pregnancy.
For nine months your hair will be locked into the growth phase allowing the hair to continue to grow when it may not have before. After birth when the hormones have returned to normal these women will think they are going bald, as their hair begins to shed and this new growth is sent back to normal paces.
The average person’s hair will grow a half an inch per month. If you have a short growth stage then you will never be able to achieve the long locks that others are able to grow. While vitamins, minerals, and a healthy diet with plenty of water can increase the rate of growth during the growth phase, there is little chance that the actual phase can be elongated.
Whether you will have long hair or not is a genetic factor that you have very little control over. If you have a long growth phase than you will be able to achieve these long locks. Some are able to stay in the growth phase for as long as six years. Others with short grow phases will only last two years and only are able to grow hair to their shoulders.
You may be wondering how you can grow hair long if you are not in that lucky gene pool with long growth phases. Well you can achiever longer lengths through the use of MSM vitamins. MSM is natural organic sulfonyl sulfur. This is a compound that can be found in raw fruits and green vegetables. This is a product that is not found in prenatal vitamins and can be added to your diet to grow longer lengths of hair.
You will have to ensure that you have the healthiest hair to have longer lengths of hair. You have to prevent breakages to ensure your hair will reach greater lengths. If your hair is breaking as fast as it grows then it will never reach longer lengths. Hair breakage most often occurs thanks to a lack of moisture and rough brushing and styling techniques. Hair brushes should never be pulled through the hair in rough bursts. Hair that is brushed while wet should be brushed with a careful hand; and hair should only be washed every few days to keep in the natural oils.
Diet and hydration will also play a huge role in the health and overall length of the hair. Keeping your body in line will reflect on your hair. A healthy body means healthy hair. But, ladies, unfortunately, the length of your hair will not be determined by the usage of a prenatal vitamin, though vitamins can make hair stronger and healthier over time
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thanks for the informative post.. actually i was also not sure bout the faster growth of hair during pregnancy.
diet has a crucial role to play in growth of healthy hair.
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I’m glad you clarified this point because I see so many references by women in hair forums who erroneously think that it’s ok to take prenatal vitamins for hair growth. After I had my first child, I continued to take my prenatal vitamins because it actually made me feel great, and I also was under the misconception that it was growing my hair. After consulting with my Doctor, he became quite alarmed and warned me to discontinue taking the prenatal vitamins because over time they actually become toxic to your body since they were designed to support 2 humans not 1! The levels within the vitamins are increased greatly to support a mother AND her fetus. Too much of a good thing is never good and the same applies in this instance.
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