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I have heard that taking pre-natal vitamins will give you healthier
hair and potentially make your hair grow faster. Has anyone tried this? Do these vitamins speed up hair growth some? I am a guy and I want my hair to grow long enough to have it cut in a one length bob about an inch below my ears. Right now my hair has some layers in it and the length from the top comes to just above my ears. I want to get to my bob as fast as I can so if anyone can justify this claim or offer other advice for healthier faster growing hair I would like to hear it.
Thanks,
Jamie
HI --
A vitamin supplement never hurts any guy as long as it doesn't contain Iron, and if it does make sure you give blook occasionally.
However, forget lots of vitimins. If you take one of everything that could possibly do you some good you are going to overload your liver, and waste money.
Just make sure you include some portien for replacement parts, some carbo for fuel, and lots and lots of different colors, yes colors, because that is where the vit - aminos are and the anti - oxidants.
Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Purple and you don't need to take extra vitamins. You have them, Sign off canned veggies. Eat what is in season fresh, in salads or steamed or stirfried. Eat what is in season fresh.
The only frozen veg I ever buy is creamed spinach, because 4 minutes in the micro wave, on top of pasta, plus a little parmesian makes an instant delight. But I eat the rest of my spinich in salads.
Your hair will grow at the same rate. Faster in summer, slower in winter, but you will be healthier. Perhaps DuPont or Dow Corning or Bayer will come up with a chemical that will make it grow an inch a week, but don't count on it, There is nothing on the market now. Don't wait. Eat right and be patient.
Canis
I'd would just like to know. If I do take those pre-natal vitamins, how long will it take for my hair to grow long
Some people have claimed on the Internet that pre-natal vitamins (a formulation developed for women who are pregnant or milk-producing) have caused a remarkable increase in their growth rate of hair and fingernails. I've seen "testimonials", if you will, both from pregnant women who discovered it by accident, and from men who tried the pills. What we don't know is what rates of growth these people had before, compared to other people. To date, what I've seen are comments that in effect say, "Wow, my own growth rate has sped up!"
We all know that some people can gain weight like crazy from eating just a little, while others have to pig out just to maintain their weight. Some people suck up calories like a sponge while others take in very little of what comes their way. The body throws off the fats and carbohydrates it decides it doesn't need.
It's going to be the same way, no doubt, with vitamins essential for hair growth. Some people are going to soak them up like crazy and others need a flood of them just to absorb what they need. If you're in the second group, it makes sense that pills formulated to provide
a flood of vitamins for rapid tissue growth would be of benefit to you. Hair is tissue - it is part of the skin, which it grows out of. On the other hand, if you get plenty of vitamins from your food, extra vitamins in pills would be a waste of your money.
One might wonder if guys who absorb food well might also be the ones to absorb vitamins well, but it could very well be the opposite. Overweight guys often eat less food than skinny guys, so they may get less vitamins in their diet, maybe not enough to foster normal hair growth. The vitamins that hair needs do not occur in fruits and vegetables, but rather in grains, nuts, and meats, things which are
"fattening" and are often avoided by overweight people and some others who think these vital foods are "unhealthy".
As for the idea that getting too many vitamins can be unhealty, the body mostly just throws the excess off. One can get poisoned from grossly excessive doses of some vitamins, but I've looked at the label for pre-natal vitamins and there is no warning or mention of this on them. I would thus presume the amounts of vitamins in the pills are way below any such threshold.
Longhairs who don't want to take baby-pink pills out of a bottle from Walgreens that says "pre-natal" on it can, for more money, obtain a similar formulation at GNC called, as I recall, "Nourish Hair for Men"... ;-)
Another thing we don't know is how undernourished these people were. Perhaps they got a big boost because they had a very poor diet in the first place. If you live on Coke, PB&Js and hamburgers, you'd probably benefit.
Dear,
I was just wondering if you have some products or maybe pills that could increase your height without any bad side effects?
your question would be better addressed by an M.D. or endocrinologist, not on a message board for long hair. it sounds like you need a pill to boost your self-esteem.
is this only for men??
From what I have heard I think that this would work for women as well as men. These Pre-natal vitamins just provide your body with the minerals and vitamins that you may not get in your diet. I have been taking them for about 3 months now (I'm a guy) trying to grow my hair out so that I can get a pretty one length bob style and I have noticed that it seems that my hair grows a little faster but I also noticed that my hair is much softer, silkier, and prettier. It has more life in it. So I would say that this would work for either sex.
Jamie