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How to Improve Hair and Nails Through Your Diet

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By eHow Contributing Writer
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Our physical traits are mostly determined by genetics, but you can help nature along with changes in your diet. To get your hair and nails in the best shape possible from the inside out, read on.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Eggs
  • Flaxseed
  • Fresh Fruit
  • Herbal Teas
  • Nuts
  • Vegetables
  • Whole Grains
  • Fresh Fruit
  • Vegetables
  1. Step 1

    Eat high-quality protein foods. Eggs are a good source as long as you don't have cholesterol problems.

  2. Step 2

    Eat grains, legumes, nuts and seeds.

  3. Step 3

    Make sure your diet is composed of 50 percent fresh fruits and vegetables.

  4. Step 4

    Add sulfur- and silicon-rich foods to diet. Onions, broccoli, fish and sea vegetables are all good sources.

  5. Step 5

    Eat food rich in biotin, such as brewer's yeast, brown rice and soybeans.

  6. Step 6

    Sprinkle ground flaxseed on your cereal. It provides essential fatty acids.

  7. Step 7

    Eat foods high in B vitamins.

  8. Step 8

    Drink tea made from alfalfa, burdock root, dandelion, and yellow dock.

Tips & Warnings
  • If you want to supplement your diet, vitamin-mineral combinations specifically formulated to improve hair are available in health-food stores and nutrition centers.

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on 2/4/2009 Alot of great information here! Thanks a bunch. I heard lemons help with hair growth too.
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jam89015 said

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on 1/30/2009 Also use natural bristle brushes, plastic brushes tends to cause split ends. Dietary needs of hair is another important ingredient for healthy hair. Your article is very important. Thank you!

Kati said

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on 6/15/2007 Hair - Keeping your scalp clean by shampooing it more frequently and letting your hair naturally dry. Scalp is also skin and it needs to be cleaned regularly. But if you have dry/frizzy hair, lightly tie it or twist it after it is about 75% dry for a few hours. This way the moisture is restored and hair looks healthy and shines.

jamasol said

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on 1/9/2008 There is an unbelievably easy way to make your hair and nails faster. Take 250 mg of L-carnitine and at least 10 mg of CoQ10 together everyday. Your hair and nails will double their growth. I-carnitine is a compound of the amino acids lysine and methionine. CoQ10 is used by our body to turn the energy in food into the energy our body uses. The theory is that that presence of the CoQ10 makes the our body recognize the L-carnitine as protein. That jump starts the production of biotin. That makes your skin excrete keratin which is hair. Both L-carnitine and CoQ10 are widely available at places like GNC and they're cheap (you'll spend less than 20 for both). You will notice the faster growth immediately. And just so you know in advance- this means all your hair. So expect to have to shave your legs twice as often as you do now.

Simsjs said

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on 4/21/2007 I have had artificial nails for years and have never been able to grow my own nails out. I stopped getting the fake nails and started using "Body, Hair and Nails"
vitamins for about a month now. They come in different brands. I am amazed at how strong my nails are now and they are actually growing. I get regular manicures, but it is cheaper than going every two weeks for a fill in. I don't bite them anymore either.

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