A racehorse needs grooming to look well on race day, people devote their lives to making these thoroughbreds triumph in the looks department, even if they never make their way into the winner’s enclosure, at least they look the part. Looking the part is not what it is all about though to win, and even when you see your counterparts looking exceptional in the night club, the office, or the supermarket, there may be more going on under the surface than you realise. Their hair’s appearance of looking well in the now, may have a detrimental effect on their hair’s lasting appeal.
Let us look at hair on a cellular level, by understanding the dynamic of what goes on underneath the surface we can bring out the best, and get you ready for the ‘big race’ with dynamic hair. Embedded deep in your dermis (skin) are the hair follicles that absorb nutrients growing the keratin rich fibres of which hair is composed.
This hair grows at the root and in five to six months time the growth that occurs today will be the part of the strand that will go under the knife during your next haircut. On a cellular level (much like the miracle of life in the womb) the cells inside our hair follicles divide and multiply. This occurs beneath the surface right inside the hair follicle, the illusion of growth is that when the follicle fills up with new cells the older ones inside are pushed out of the body through your scalp.
There are active and resting phases in the cell division process, the anagen phase is when growth is at its most active, and it on this is we need to concentrate to expand on our ability to make hair grow the way we want. The few months that this phase lasts is the key time for growth. How can we ensure that we give these new cells the best start in life?
This portion of the hair in the follicle is the only living part of the hair, as a result it is the only point where we can make an improvement. Any additional benefits we apply to making the dead portion of our hair more beautiful will only be on a superficial level. There is an oil producing gland just below the surface which helps to regulate the growth of each hair follicle, this ‘sebaceous’ gland, and the essential oils that we provide it to help ‘oil’ the engine of hair growth that is the follicle is our point of focus.
The body has little resource to produce something from nothing, it cannot produce the keratin protein from which hair is composed without the body consuming, and retaining protein in our diet. In the same fashion it cannot produce the right type of oil for these glands that feed the cellular growth without the correct input. It is not chip pan oil that the body needs, it needs a more natural source, and your diet should include these healthy natural oils to give the keratin a natural moisture as it grows, giving it the vitality that you are looking for.
The oil you really need here is that which comes from fatty acids, and the best means to get this into your body for consumption by your hair is through eating fish. Adding fish to your diet is great because they have the omega-3 fatty acids that have the health and hair growth benefits that you desire.
They also improve brain function and reduce inflammation right through the body, all valuable assets in your desire to look, feel and actually be more attractive. The fish get these fatty acids into their bodies through eating the green water algae that you see on the water’s surface. They eat the algae so that you don’t have to, and it is damn certain that they taste a hell of a lot better than a mouthful of that. Whether you are eating salmon, herring, sardines or predatory fish like tuna you will be benefiting from the algae consumption of fish, as even in the predators they take on the benefits of the algae eating into their bodies when they consume the fish that dined on it. If you don’t like the taste of fish or find that adding fish to your diet would be too expensive, then these natural essential oils can be attained in supplement form.
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