Hair Loss-Prevention Tips

The following are a few simple hair loss prevention tips that can slow down your hair loss problem.

1. Avoid most shampoo products

Stop using shampoos that contain sodium lauryl sulfate!. Avoid shampoos with harsh detergents such as sodium lauryl sulfate and ammonium laureth sulfate. These dry the hair and cause it to become fragile. Choose products made from olive oil and decyl polyglucose which is derived from corn.

Sodium lauryl sulfate cause hair loss by attacking the follicle. As part of the normal hair cycle the average person sheds over one hundred hairs every day. That’s ample opportunity to expose empty follicles to an SLS attack.

Sodium Laurel Sulfate happens to be a primary ingredient in just about any "normal" shampoo. It is therefore vital to check the ingredients listed on your shampoo bottle, and see if it contains a substance by the name of Sodium Laureth Sulfate or simply SLS. This substance is found in most shampoo products. The manufactures use it because it produces a lot of foam and it is cheap. BUT the fact is that SLS is used to scrub garage floors, and it is very strong. It is also proven that it can cause cancer in the long run and can make you lose your hair now.

The simple fact is that many people have reported that since they stopped using shampoo products that contain SLS they have noticed that their hair is no longer thinning, and the shedding of hair was reduced and is actually growing back thicker. Some have even sprouted fresh hair.

Some have reported that miraculously, within weeks, their hair stopped falling out, and after a few months it actually started growing back.

A variation of SLS is SODIUM LAURETH SULFATE (Sodium Lauryl Ether Sulfate- SLES). It exhibits many of the same characteristics and is a higher-foaming variation of SLS.

SLS Is also in pretty much everything else that foams in your personal care products from everything like toothpaste to bubble bath, facial cleanser, make up, bar soaps, shower gels, baby products etc etc.. Just a very cheap filler with no real purpose other than to foam a lot.

SLS is certainly a hair growth inhibitor, It’s a protein denature. Hair is made of protein and is affected by SLS and SLES leading to poor quality hair, corroded hair follicles and inhibited hair growth, contributing to hair loss.

Buyer beware!

Many shampoo products are labeled natural or organic. For example, 80% Organic Aloe Vera. But… many of these shampoo products also contain SLS. 

You’d think that you would be taking every precaution to avoid harmful ingredients in your shampoo if you purchase a brand from a health foods store, wouldn’t you? Not so with the ingredient sodium lauryl/laureth sulfate (SLS).

If so, why aren’t all of us bald?

Most of us aren’t negatively affected by SLS because healthy unstressed hair can handle it just fine.

However, if there are enough stressors present that affect the health of someone’s hair – stress, fatigue, aging, nutrition, health issues, and so on, then adding SLS on top of all that may be just a little too much. And that’s when it triggers hair loss. Conversely, taking the SLS away in a situation like that may well make hair loss stop or slow it down. Or it may not – there may still be too many others stressors for any one particular head of hair to stop shedding.

Tip: Wash your hair with natural vinegar. It disinfects as it cleans and leaves your hair bouncy and shiny without completely stripping it of it’s natural oils so you will never have a problem with dry split ends either.

2. Shower only with pure water

Washing with contaminated water (and repeating) can literally wash away your hair.

According to recent news and reports, most tap and well water in the U.S. are not safe for drinking due to heavy industrial and environmental pollution. Toxic bacteria, chemicals and heavy metals routinely penetrate and pollute our natural water sources making people sick while exposing them to long term health consequences such as liver damage, cancer and other serious conditions. We have reached the point where all sources of our drinking water, including municipal water systems, wells, lakes, rivers, and even glaciers, contain some level of contamination. Even some brands of bottled water have been found to contain high levels of contaminants in addition to plastics chemical leaching from the bottle.

A good water filtration system installed in your home is the only way to proactively monitor and ensure the quality and safety of your drinking and shower water. Reverse osmosis water purification systems can remove 90-99% of all contaminants from city and well water to deliver healthy drinking water for you and your family.

3. Don’t shower with fluoridated water

Use a shower chlorine filter. Not only chemicals from shampoos and conditioners are harmful for your hair but the water that you use everyday to shower with contains chemicals as well. Chlorine for example.

Chlorine is very damaging to hair. If you swim every now and then it’s no big deal, but for a daily swimmer it can be an issue. Most people who swim a lot use shampoos and conditioners designed to help undo chlorine damage.
The chlorine dries out your hair which can cause breakage. It’s not a permanent thing though, if you stop swimming in it, any new hair growth will come in healthy.

Hot water causes the chlorine to be sucked into your pores and a gas to be released that is sucked into the lungs and bloodstream faster than you could ever drink it. Chlorine and fluoride are endocrine/metabolic destroyers of our bodies and kill the thyroid and pancreas islet cells slowly but surely. 

If you are continuously exposed to iodine leeching agents like fluoride and chlorine, then your thyroid will not work. Fluoride is in the water supply. Chlorine is found in thousands of chemicals and swimming pools.

Fluoride and chlorine displace iodine from the body. The chemicals (called halides) kick out iodine from chemical reactions leaving your body devoid of iodine and without iodine your thyroid gland becomes useless!

4. Take precautions when swimming in chlorinated water

Swimming pools must maintain high levels of certain chemicals, especially chlorine, in order to keep the water virus and bacteria free. Unfortunately, these same high levels of chlorine that keep your body safe can play havoc with your hair. The oxidizing agents in chlorine cause it to strip your hair of moisture, leaving it dry, brittle, and prone to breakage and split ends.

The most effective and easiest option for hair protection is to don a swimming cap. The rubber-like cap will keep your hair safe from the chemicals in the water and keep your hair dry do you are ready to go immediately after your swim. No blow-drying, styling, or fuss necessary.

Tip: Shower as quickly as possible after coming out of a pool to rinse off the excess chlorine from the swimming pool.

5. Avoid fluoride in drinking water

Today, many people living in fluoridated communities are ingesting doses of fluoride (1.6-6.6 mg/day) that fall within the range of doses (2 to 10 mg/day) once used by doctors to reduce thyroid activity in hyperthyroid patients. This is of particular concern considering the widespread problem of hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid) in the United States. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include obesity, lethargy, depression, and heart disease.

Get off chlorinated and fluoridated water. Start drinking mineral water or de-chlorinated de-fluoridated filtered water (you will need a reverse osmosis filter if your water has fluoride in it.)

6. Watch your copper & salt intake

The latest news on baldness involves two common substances: Copper and salt. If you are bald, you may be getting too much of both.

Studies show that the amount of copper in your body has a direct relationship to how much hair you have on your head. Too much copper means too little hair.

The metal copper controls hair growth and hair loss. Healthy tissue concentrations of copper lie between 1.7 and 3.5 milligrams. Everything else will cause hair loss. You can have too little copper (below 1.7 milligrams) or too much copper (above 3.5 milligrams) and the same thing will happen: your hair will start falling out.

The primary culprit in water is the copper pipes through which you get your drinking water.

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