Hair loss due to vitamin deficiency?

An adequate supply of vitamins and minerals throughout the body is important for health and well-being. This also applies to our hair:

If essential nutrients such as vitamins A and D3, biotin, vitamin C, iron and zinc are lacking, this can manifest itself in dry and brittle hair and even diffuse hair loss.

However, a deficiency should always be diagnosed by a doctor and not just based on a hunch. Clinically, however, only iron deficiency is usually apparent, followed by vitamin D3 deficiency.

Substitution should be medically coordinated accordingly.

Nutrients are important, but usually not the cause of hair loss

However, the issue of hair loss is very complex. Even additional doses of missing nutrients often cannot eliminate hair loss. This is because the most common causes of hair loss include hormonal disorders that have a direct impact on the hair cycle: for example, hypersensitivity of the hair follicle to testosterone (DHT), falling oestrogen levels after pregnancy and as a result of the menopause, or an imbalance of thyroid hormones as a result of hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism.

Another large group concerns hair loss due to autoimmune processes, such as circular hair loss, but inflammatory hair loss diseases are also becoming increasingly common.

In all these cases, vitamins & co. cannot bring about any significant improvements.

Conclusion: an adequate supply of essential nutrients such as vitamins and minerals are important for the entire organism and in particular for the external appearance of the hair and can have a positive effect on mild diffuse hair loss associated with an undersupply of nutrients (e.g. crash diets, absorption disorders).

Worth knowing

Diffuse hair loss

Hair loss all over the head

This is an increased hair loss in the area of the entire hairy head.

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