Role Of Nutrients In Hair Growth.Posted by Nick Niesen on October 26th, 2010 Hormones and Vitamins play an important role in the Hair growth. Hair consists of a pigment called "Melanin" which also occurs in the skin of human beings. This pigment is responsible for the dark nature of the skin and hair. In Young people, hair has large number of melanin pigments which leads to Dark nature of the hair and with the increase of the age, the no. of melanin pigments decreases, leading to whitening of the hair in old People. In older poeple, the follicles produce thin and long hair, and also sometimes also do not produce any hair. This is the cause for the Baldness in old people. Alcohol effects hair growth, i.e. Alcoholics have poor hair growth or they experience hair loss due to malnutrition. The Female hormones called Oestrogens decreases the growth of hair during the growth of the induvidual. During Pregnancy there is difference in hair growth as blood cntains more amount of Oestrogens at that time. The effect of Androgens in male is different in many people, that is the reason some people do not get beard and hair on the chest upto a certain age of above 25 and a few get at an age of near 20. Finally, Hormones are genetically produced and are determined and they help in growth of the hair. Like it? Share it!More by this author |