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Have you ever listened to service stations to service your body, mind, and appearance? In this blog, we will be talking of Health Service Stations not only to periodically service your body organs but also your appearance and fine-tune your mind for longevity. Keep tuned to Health Service Stations, a new concept in the 21st Century. We were thinking about how to start with a layman to understand the concept easily. Immediately came the idea to start taking care of body organs from Head to Toe.

Now let us scan the body from Head to Toe and tell the audience how to take care of all the body organs. By scanning, we do not mean that the whole body is to be scanned through CT Scan or MRI Scan but with just the naked eye. BTW (By the Way) what is the first body part when you see a man or woman. Certainly, you will notice his or her hair, of course, next to his or her smile. Your Hair needs proper feeds and the next article we are going to discuss "How to have healthy, shining, and long-lived hair". Hair adds to the beauty and personality of any individual.

How to have Healthy, Shining and Long-Lived Hair

The war against greying of hair and baldness is as old as civilization. More and more research is being made to win the battle against greying hair and to have natural black, long shining, and healthy hair through a nutritious diet to hair. Your hair, the mark of your personality and beauty, needs a special diet. I have seen people having bald heads and grey or silver-white hairs even at the age of 20. I, at the age of 60 years still do have natural black colored hair without any coloring as you can see from my photo on the right side.

KNOW YOUR HAIR - FACTS and MYTHS

• First of all let it be known to us that heredity does influence hair, just as it influences your entire physical makeup. But never give up to look younger. Now there are special hair clinics to improve the health of your hair and you can pass on healthier hair to the next generations.
• Have you ever noticed that it is very difficult to find a bald-headed Chinese? Why it is so? Does it mean that by just shifting your geographical location you can get rid of baldness or grey hair? No, not at all. It depends on the diet and eating habits. Chinese live on foods rich in all the B Vitamins and their diet is largely fish, soybeans, roots, herbs, unpolished rice, and short-cooked/half-boiled vegetables.
• Similarly, Irish people living on their small island have healthy, long, black, and shining hair mainly due to their diets which consist of foods ( mainly seafood and water) that are rich in iodine

Hair specialists have concluded that all grey hair results from nutritional deficiencies as the growth of hair and its pigmentation are regulated by the vitamin B family fortified with iron and iodine. It does not mean that swallowing a handful of vitamin B capsules will change the color of your grey hair to natural black overnight. If your diet lacks iron, copper, iodine, and some amino acids then you must be ready for the untimely greying of hair and poor health.

Out of the whole family of B Vitamins - pantothenic acid, folic acid, and aminobenzoic acid  - in particular, are credited with restoring black color to grey-turned hair. In case of baldness, massive doses of B Vitamins along with inositol, in particular, can help in the regrowth of hair on bald spots. Iodine is very important for good circulation of the bloodstream that feeds the scalp, and deficiency of iodine can slow down the blood circulation to feed hair causing slow growth coupled with falling of hair. Lack of Iron results in low strength of the bloodstream due to anemic blood.

Now you will like to know the sources which are rich in the above hair nutrients. The richest source of inositol is the black treacle. It can also be found in brewer's yeast, wheat germ, and liver extracts. Iodine is contained in sea greens, fish, and other seafood. Vitamin Capsules manufacturers have started including the above "three hair vitamins" in their capsules. Beauty salons and skin specialists often recommend Vitamin B capsules having hair vitamins. Consuming large quantities of coffee can be the causative factor in the early greying of hair as coffee washes away the soluble vitamins from your body.

Accordingly to one of the old theories by Dr. Max A. Goldzieher, it has been observed that estrogen (the female sex hormone) can be used effectively in combating the loss of hair for both men and women. Oestrogen, if applied to the scalp in the form of hair lotion, can penetrate the scalp skin to substantially decrease the loss of hair - though it does not seem to influence the growth of hair and can only prevent loss of hair.

Good news for bald people. About 50 years ago an American Surgeon had to perform plastic surgery beneath the eyes of his patient who was completely bald. The plastic surgeon took the skin from the bald scalp and after a few months, the surgeon was astonished to find the growth of normal hair around the eye of his patient. The incident was an eye-opener for hair and skin specialists as it made them believe that hair cells never die a complete death and can be revitalized with revitalized circulation. One can achieve not only glowing hair but also the whole body through sound nutrition.

Do you have still any questions or doubts about healthy hair? Ask Your Question Here to know well-researched and best answers. Keep tuned to "Health Service Station" to move to "Brain - the Hard Disk of Human Being"...