What Effect Does a High-Fat Diet Have on Your Hair?

what effect does a high-fat diet have on your hair?

We know obesity and poor dieting can predispose people to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart issues, and many other things. Information in a recent study from the Tokyo Medical and Dental University has found it may also lead to hair thinning and loss.

Collagen And Overall Hair Health

collagen and overall hair health

Many of us are looking at everyday things we can do to promote our hair health. Whether it be the kinds of shampoo and conditioner we use, how often we wash our hair, how we brush our hair, or how we style it. We’re trying to be mindful of what’s good for our hair health […]

Can Onions Prevent Hair Loss?

can onions prevent hair loss?

Onions have been a staple at the dinner table since before there were dinner tables some 5,000 years ago. Their delicious pungency notwithstanding, people have had other uses for onions throughout history. They were thought to ward off disease, protect from evil spirits, and aid in increasing beauty and long life.

Creatine And Hair Loss

creatine and hair loss

Creatine remains the top performance enhancement supplement used by athletes. It has no real competition threatening to take the top spot from it, but it’s not for a lack of perceived controversy. Among those is the creatine hair loss myth.

Melatonin and Hair Loss

melatonin and hair loss

Melatonin is a hormone that is naturally created in your body by the pineal gland while you sleep. You may have heard that some people take melatonin as a short-term sleep aid to treat insomnia. It is also an antioxidant, which means it can combat oxidative stress to reduce the signs of aging.

Protein And Hair Loss

man looking at hair loss in mirror

What we put in our bodies affects our whole body. A healthy diet where you’re taking in the necessary vitamins and nutrients has a positive effect on your overall well-being – a higher probability of healthy skin, nails, and yes, healthy hair. Malnutrition has the opposite effect.

Men’s Health Week

men's health week

International Men’s Health Week this year is the week of June 14th through the 20th. Men’s Health Week was started here in the United States nearly three decades ago to coincide with Father’s Day and to raise awareness of preventable health problems that affect boys and men. While there are certainly more serious problems that […]

Aspartame and Hair Loss

can artificial sweeteners cause hair loss?

Diet sodas have had a mixed reputation over the years. While many people love the perceived guilt-free drink, there is an artificial sweetener in the ingredients of many diet drinks still used today called aspartame.

Can Online Gaming Cause Hair Loss?

Online gamer with hair loss

Playing video games, referred to more often simply as “gaming”, has been increasing in popularity more and more over the decades. What used to be thought of as a pastime for kids – much like comic books and young adult genre fiction novels – has become dominated by adults.

Can Santa Claus’ Diet Cause Hair Loss?

Santa Claus' Christmas diet

Santa Claus tends to be depicted wearing a hat for a reason – art showing the jolly old elf without his signature white-trimmed red cap show that he suffers from hair loss. Sometimes it’s classic male-pattern baldness with a completely bare head except for fringe on the sides. Less often, Santa has most of his […]