Inositol And Hair Loss
Introduction
Over 40% of hair loss in the United States is in women while 65% of men will experience some sort of hair loss by the time they are 35 years old. If you are suffering from hair loss it may be because of a deficiency in inositol. What is inositol, how does it benefit the human body and where can I get?
What Is Inositol
Inositol is a member of the B-complex vitamin family and is one of the most important vitamins for the health of your hair. Vitamins are important in your diet and cannot be synthesized by the body but since the body can synthesize inositol from glucose, it is not officially classified as a vitamin.
How Does It Benefit the Human Body?
You can find inositol present in most tissues of the body.
This vitamin makes the fat compound called lecithin, which is necessary for proper development of cells and nerve membranes and also helps to keep the body’s cholesterol from building up and clogging the arteries.
Studies have found that a lack of inositol can also cause hair loss. It has been found that this compound helps the hair follicles by preventing cell damage. If you are having hair loss because of a lack of this vitamin, increasing your amount of inositol will return your hair growth to normal.
Where to Get Inositol
As mentioned earlier, the body can make its own inositol from blood sugar, plus it is found in ample supply in whole grains. With the exception of niacin, another B vitamin, inositol is one of the most plentiful vitamins that are found in the body.
One way that you can deplete your body’s inventory of inositol is by drinking too much coffee. If this is your case, then you need to increase your absorption of inositol by consuming more brewers yeast, citrus fruits, grains and liver.
Conclusion
Your body makes enough inositol so you should not have to worry about it, but if you are drinking a lot of coffee and losing your hair, you may have a deficiency of inositol. To improve the amount of inositol in your body, reduce the amount of coffee you drink during the day and/or increase your diet of grains, brewers yeast and citrus fruits.
You may also increase the amount of liver you eat to increase the amount of inositol in your body, but you will need to get by the taste.
