How can diet affect your hair and scalp?

How can diet affect your hair and scalp?

Marilyn Sherlock (Trichologist) gives expert video advice on: How can diet affect your hair and scalp? and more...

Diet affects your hair and scalp quite dramatically. It's ever so boring, but the reality is that a well-balanced diet actually produces good hair and most people don't like to hear us say that, but its true. Crash dieting, in particular, illustrates this. If people are wanting to lose weight and they go on diets, if you go on a well-balanced diet, such as Weight Watchers, all you're doing is cutting out things that are really bad for you, too much fat and too much sugar, but you're having a well-balanced diet. The hair won't suffer at all. But if you go onto an exclusion diet, where you're having one thing only or a group of foods only or liquid diets, this can, in certain individuals, cause dramatic hair loss. That illustrates the fact that if you can have a well-balanced diet, your hair will be good, and if you, in particular, eat red meat - which contains iron, which the hair is heavily dependent on - that is also good. If you're vegetarian it may be that you need to take an iron supplement.